| 1922 Max Schreck film | 21 |
| 1922 Murnau film featuring Count Orlok | 38 |
| 1922 Nobelist in physics | 24 |
| 1922 Nobelist Niels | 19 |
| 1922 novel with a Dublin backdrop | 33 |
| 1922 physics Nobelist | 21 |
| 1922 physics Nobelist Niels | 27 |
| 1922 play | 9 |
| 1922 Vincent Lopez hit | 22 |
| 1922 Willa Cather novel that won a Pulitzer | 43 |
| 1922 Wimbledon winner | 21 |
| 1922-73 comic strip | 19 |
| 1923 A.L. M.V.P. | 16 |
| 1923 Broadway comedy | 20 |
| 1923 earthquake site | 20 |
| 1923 Irish literature Nobelist | 30 |
| 1923 Kentucky Derby winner | 26 |
| 1923 literature Nobelist | 24 |
| 1923 medicine nobelist Frederick | 32 |
| 1923 Nobel-prize-winning writer | 31 |
| 1923 Wallace Beery portrayal | 28 |
| 1923-1991 comic strip character | 31 |
| 1924 client for Darrow | 22 |
| 1924 co-defendant | 17 |
| 1924 codefendant | 16 |
| 1924 D.W. Griffith movie | 24 |
| 1924 Darrow client | 18 |
| 1924 DeSylva/MacDonald/Gershwin song | 36 |
| 1924 Edna Ferber novel | 22 |
| 1924 Ferber novel | 17 |
| 1924 gold medal swimmer | 23 |
| 1924 hit "____ to Be You" | 35 |
| 1924 Irving Berlin tune | 23 |
| 1924 Kentucky Derby winner or a 1947 Anthony Quinn drama | 56 |
| 1924 novel that won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction | 67 |
| 1924 novel whose 1995 book club edition had elephants on the cover | 66 |
| 1924 Olympics locale | 20 |
| 1924 Olympics star Gertrude | 27 |
| 1925 Broadway title role | 24 |
| 1925 hit musical with the song "Tea for Two" | 54 |
| 1925 Literature Nobelist | 24 |
| 1925 Monkey Trial defendant | 27 |
| 1925 musical based on the play "My Lady Friends" | 58 |
| 1925 musical featuring "Tea for Two" | 46 |
| 1925 musical that spawned the unsuccessful "Yes, Yes, Yvette" | 71 |
| 1925 Nobel Peace Prize winner | 29 |
| 1925 novel for which the author declined a Pulitzer Prize | 57 |
| 1925 Percy Marmont film | 23 |
| 1925 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist | 36 |
| 1925 Pulitzer winner Ferber | 27 |
| 1925 Pulitzer-winning novel | 27 |
| 1925 Sergei Eisenstein film classic | 35 |
| 1925 Sinclair Lewis novel | 25 |
| 1925 trial name | 15 |
| 1926 "Boy Wonder" of baseball | 39 |
| 1926 "Moby-Dick" adaptation starring John Barrymore, with "The" | 83 |
| 1926 channel swimmer | 20 |
| 1926 English Channel crosser | 28 |
| 1926 English Channel swimmer | 28 |
| 1926 English Channel swimmer Gertrude | 37 |
| 1926 hit "Sleepy Time ___" | 36 |
| 1926 Jean Renoir film | 21 |
| 1926 La Scala premiere | 22 |
| 1926 novel set in Pamplona | 26 |
| 1926 song, 'When Day --' | 32 |
| 1926 ticker-tape parade honoree for swimming | 44 |
| 1927 #1 song | 12 |
| 1927 A.A. Milne book | 20 |
| 1927 E. E. Cummings play | 24 |
| 1927 headliner's nickname | 29 |
| 1927 Jolson classic, with "The" | 41 |
| 1927 lander at Paris | 20 |
| 1927 literary Nobelist Bergson | 30 |
| 1927 Literature Nobelist Henri | 30 |
| 1927 musical | 12 |
| 1927 Peace Nobelist Ludwig | 26 |
| 1927 soft-shoe classic | 22 |
| 1927 Upton Sinclair novel | 25 |
| 1927 Virginia Woolf novel | 25 |
| 1927's "The Jazz Singer," notably | 47 |
| 1927's Flying Cloud, for one | 32 |
| 1927-31 Ford | 12 |
| 1928 #1 song heard in a 1990 Steve Martin film of the same name | 63 |
| 1928 A.L. batting champ | 23 |
| 1928 destroyer of the village of Mascali | 40 |
| 1928 Eddie Cantor song | 22 |
| 1928 Fritz Lang thriller | 24 |
| 1928 hit with the lyric "I'm in heaven when I see you smile" | 74 |
| 1928 movie subtitled "The King of the Beasts" | 55 |
| 1928 musical composition originally called "Fandango" | 63 |
| 1928 orchestral work originally commissioned by a dancer | 56 |
| 1928 Oscar winner Jannings | 26 |
| 1928 pact name | 14 |
| 1928 party line | 15 |
| 1928 role for Mae | 17 |
| 1928 trademark song for Ruth Etting | 35 |
| 1928 Winter Olympics site | 25 |
| 1928's Happy Warrior | 24 |
| 1928, 1932 and 1936 Olympic gold medalist | 41 |
| 1929 #1 hit whose title follows the line "Now he's gone and we're through" | 92 |