| 1869 Minkus ballet | 18 |
| 1869 novel about Prince Myshkin | 31 |
| 1869 R.D. Blackmore novel | 25 |
| 1869 song popularized by Glenn Miller | 37 |
| 1869 Twain novel, with "The" | 38 |
| 1870 breath freshener | 21 |
| 1870 opera famously excerpted in "Apocalypse Now" | 59 |
| 1870 surrender site | 19 |
| 1870s Dodge City VIP | 20 |
| 1870s period costume named for a Dickens lass | 45 |
| 1871 Cairo premiere | 19 |
| 1871 Chicago tragedy | 20 |
| 1871 Giuseppe Verdi opera | 25 |
| 1871 sequel to a classic 1868 novel | 35 |
| 1871 Verdi debut | 16 |
| 1871 Verdi opening | 18 |
| 1871 Verdi opera | 16 |
| 1871 Verdi premier | 18 |
| 1873 adventure novel that begins and ends in London | 51 |
| 1876 battle site | 16 |
| 1876 celebration, for one | 25 |
| 1876 opera that typically lasts five hours or longer | 52 |
| 1876 Twain hero | 15 |
| 1876 victor by one electoral vote | 33 |
| 1876, e.g. | 10 |
| 1877 flop by Bret Harte and Mark Twain | 38 |
| 1877 Harte/Twain play | 21 |
| 1877 Manet painting | 19 |
| 1877 Twain collaborator | 23 |
| 1878 Kentucky Derby winner _____ Star | 37 |
| 1879's Anglo-___ War | 24 |
| 188-nation org. promoting fiscal stability | 42 |
| 1880 Émile Zola novel | 25 |
| 1880 literary heroine | 21 |
| 1880 Zola novel | 15 |
| 1880s first family | 18 |
| 1880s pres. monogram | 20 |
| 1880s White House monogram | 26 |
| 1881 fight site | 15 |
| 1881 Gilbert and Sullivan operetta | 34 |
| 1881 Pasteur vaccine target | 27 |
| 1881 trouble spot | 17 |
| 1881-1973 painter | 17 |
| 1882 opera based on Arthurian legend | 36 |
| 1883 Maupassant novel | 21 |
| 1884 Helen Hunt Jackson novel | 29 |
| 1884 Helen Hunt Jackson romance | 31 |
| 1884 John Keats work | 20 |
| 1884 literary hero, informally | 30 |
| 1884 short story by Guy de Maupassant | 37 |
| 1885 Motorwagen maker | 21 |
| 1885-89 or 1893-97 | 18 |
| 1886 Alcott sequel | 18 |
| 1886 Haymarket bombing aftermath | 32 |
| 1886 Haymarket hullabaloo | 25 |
| 1887 best-seller | 16 |
| 1887 Chekhov play | 17 |
| 1887 La Scala debut | 19 |
| 1887 La Scala premiere | 22 |
| 1887 novel about analyzing red wines? | 37 |
| 1887 novel of the lost city of Kor | 34 |
| 1887 novel set in the city of Kor | 33 |
| 1887 novel subtitled "A History of Adventure" | 55 |
| 1887 play on which a 1900 opera is based | 40 |
| 1887 romance novel | 18 |
| 1887 Verdi opera | 16 |
| 1887 Victorien Sardou play on which an opera is based | 53 |
| 1887-1996 govt. watchdog | 24 |
| 1888 painting based on Arthurian legend | 39 |
| 1889 Jerome K. Jerome comedy novel | 34 |
| 1889 newsmaking circumnavigator | 31 |
| 1889 oil on canvas by van Gogh | 30 |
| 1889 statehood achievers, with "the" | 46 |
| 1889 tower designer | 19 |
| 1889 Vice President ___ P. Morton | 33 |
| 1889 work of art deemed unsuitable for general display at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair | 91 |
| 1889 work painted in an asylum | 30 |
| 1889-'90 newsmaking circumnavigator | 39 |
| 1889-90 newsmaking circumnavigator | 34 |
| 1890 battle site that's now a memorial | 42 |
| 1890 Henry James novel, with "The" | 44 |
| 1890's beauty queen attribute | 33 |
| 1890's gold rush destination | 32 |
| 1890's veep ___ P. Morton | 29 |
| 1890's Vice President _____ P. Morton | 41 |
| 1890-1941 Italian colony | 24 |
| 1890s gold rush city | 20 |
| 1890s gold rush destination | 27 |
| 1890s gold rush site | 20 |
| 1890s gold rush town | 20 |
| 1890s heavyweight champ | 23 |
| 1890s veep Stevenson | 20 |
| 1890s warning song for sailors | 30 |
| 1891 Chekhov novella featuring pistols that never fire | 54 |
| 1891 self-named electrical invention | 36 |
| 1891 title mother of an infant named Sorrow | 43 |
| 1892 Kipling poem | 17 |
| 1892 Leoncavallo opera | 22 |
| 1892 play by Brandon Thomas | 27 |
| 1892 Tchaikovsky ballet, with "The" | 45 |