| 1955 Caron-Astaire film | 23 |
| 1955 children's heroine | 27 |
| 1955 civil rights headliner | 27 |
| 1955 Communist defense treaty | 29 |
| 1955 costar of James and Natalie | 32 |
| 1955 Dior debut | 15 |
| 1955 Dior innovation | 20 |
| 1955 Disney animated film featuring Darling Dear | 48 |
| 1955 Disney classic | 19 |
| 1955 Disney dog | 15 |
| 1955 Disney title character | 27 |
| 1955 doo-wop hit | 16 |
| 1955 film based on a Steinbeck novel | 36 |
| 1955 film robot | 15 |
| 1955 film starring Doris Day and James Cagney | 45 |
| 1955 film with a famous spaghetti scene | 39 |
| 1955 Fonda role | 15 |
| 1955 Frank Sinatra hit | 22 |
| 1955 Frank Sinatra song | 23 |
| 1955 Fred Astaire/Leslie Caron musical | 38 |
| 1955 Gloria Grahame musical role | 32 |
| 1955 Graham Greene novel, with "The" | 46 |
| 1955 Grant/Kelly thriller | 25 |
| 1955 hit about coal mining | 26 |
| 1955 hit for the Crew-Cuts | 26 |
| 1955 hit for the Platters | 25 |
| 1955 Hitchcock caper | 20 |
| 1955 Hitchcock film with Cary Grant | 35 |
| 1955 Horse of the Year | 22 |
| 1955 James Dean classic | 23 |
| 1955 Julie London hit | 21 |
| 1955 Kentucky Derby winner | 26 |
| 1955 labor merger gp. | 21 |
| 1955 Leslie Caron film musical | 30 |
| 1955 Magnani film with ''The'' | 46 |
| 1955 merger | 11 |
| 1955 merger grp. | 16 |
| 1955 merger participant, for short | 34 |
| 1955 merger partner | 19 |
| 1955 merger partner, familiarly | 31 |
| 1955 musical version of "Cinderella" | 46 |
| 1955 newsmaking passenger | 25 |
| 1955 novel made into a 1962 film | 32 |
| 1955 novel that was made into 1962 and 1997 films | 49 |
| 1955 Oscar nominee for "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" | 58 |
| 1955 Oscar-winning film | 23 |
| 1955 pact city | 14 |
| 1955 Physics Nobelist | 21 |
| 1955 Platters hit | 17 |
| 1955 play transmuted | 20 |
| 1955 Preakness and Belmont winner | 33 |
| 1955 Preakness winner or city on the Merrimack | 46 |
| 1955 prison-break film | 22 |
| 1955 Pulitzer-winning poet | 26 |
| 1955 sci-fi classic | 19 |
| 1955 sci-fi film that was one of the first to use Technicolor | 61 |
| 1955 Sinatra hit | 16 |
| 1955 Thunderbird seating capacity | 33 |
| 1955 title heroine | 18 |
| 1955 title role voiced by Barbara Luddy | 39 |
| 1955 Tony winner for "Quadrille" | 42 |
| 1955 Tony winner in Noel Coward's "Quadrille" | 59 |
| 1955 treaty city | 16 |
| 1955 UN joiner | 14 |
| 1955 union merger | 17 |
| 1955 Wimbledon and U.S. Open champ | 34 |
| 1955 Wimbledon champ Trabert | 28 |
| 1955 Wimbledon champion | 23 |
| 1955-67 Arkansas governor Faubus | 32 |
| 1955-86 comic strip | 19 |
| 1956 #1 Elvis hit | 17 |
| 1956 #1 hit for Elvis Presley | 29 |
| 1956 #1 song | 12 |
| 1956 Allen Ginsberg poem | 24 |
| 1956 Bernstein operetta | 23 |
| 1956 Charlton Heston role | 25 |
| 1956 crime drama (with ''The'') | 47 |
| 1956 crisis site | 16 |
| 1956 cult film from overseas | 28 |
| 1956 Deborah Kerr/John Kerr drama | 33 |
| 1956 Dr. Seuss book about ill-conceived plans | 45 |
| 1956 Elvis hit | 14 |
| 1956 Elvis hit that went to #2 | 30 |
| 1956 Elvis Presley hit | 22 |
| 1956 Elvis song | 15 |
| 1956 Fats Domino hit | 20 |
| 1956 film based on "The Tempest" | 42 |
| 1956 film that earned an Oscar nomination for 11-year-old Patty McCormack | 73 |
| 1956 Four Lads hit "___ Much!" | 40 |
| 1956 Glenn Ford crime drama | 27 |
| 1956 Glenn Ford film remade in 1996 | 35 |
| 1956 Gregory Peck role | 22 |
| 1956 Heston role | 16 |
| 1956 hit for the Clovers | 24 |
| 1956 hit song, to a letter writer? | 34 |
| 1956 hit, "Since ___ You Baby" | 40 |
| 1956 Hitchcock thriller starring James Stewart | 46 |
| 1956 hotspot | 12 |
| 1956 Hungarian event | 20 |
| 1956 Hungarian leader Gero | 26 |