| 1972 rock hit recorded with the London Festival Orchestra | 57 |
| 1972 musical with the song "Summer Nights" | 52 |
| 1972 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner ___ Ridge | 55 |
| 1972 hit with the line "The day the music died" | 57 |
| 1972 hit for Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen | 54 |
| 1972 Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee for Best Motion Picture | 58 |
| 1972 biography subtitled "The People's Lawyer" | 60 |
| 1972 Best Actor nominee for "The Ruling Class" | 56 |
| 1972 #1 hit, and what can be found nine times in this grid | 58 |
| 1972 #1 hit that starts "A long, long time ago" | 57 |
| 1972 #1 hit for Sammy Davis Jr., with "The" | 53 |
| 1971 rock album with the hit "Won't Get Fooled Again" | 67 |
| 1971 R&B collection "___ Greatest Hits" | 53 |
| 1971 Oscar winner for "Theme from 'Shaft'" | 60 |
| 1971 N.L. M.V.P. who was later twice A.L. Manager of the Year | 61 |
| 1971 hit with the lyric "You may say I'm a dreamer" | 65 |
| 1971 hit movie based on the novel "Ratman's Notebooks" | 68 |
| 1971 hit from the album "Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy" | 69 |
| 1971 Gay Talese title derived from one of the Ten Commandments | 62 |
| 1971 film that was Cybill Shepherd's debut, with "The" | 68 |
| 1971 counter-culture film revue hosted by Richard Pryor | 55 |
| 1971 Charlton Heston science fiction film, with "The" | 63 |
| 1971 album that features "Baba O'Riley" | 53 |
| 1970s-'80s NCAA college football record-holding quarterback Neil | 68 |
| 1970s-'80s horror film franchise, with "The" | 58 |
| 1970s sitcom that ended with the title character in Congress | 60 |
| 1970s Patrick Duffy title character who can breathe underwater | 62 |
| 1970s Mocedades hit that translates to "It's You" | 63 |
| 1970s German band heard on the "Kill Bill" soundtrack | 63 |
| 1970s genre that mixed West African and American music styles | 61 |
| 1970s film featuring Gregory Peck as an imperiled ambassador | 60 |
| 1970s "Love Train" trio, with "the" | 55 |
| 1970's-90's rock group with a name from Greek myth | 58 |
| 1970's-80's sitcom guy, with "the" | 52 |
| 1970's song subtitled "Touch the Wind" | 52 |
| 1970's grp. whose symbol was a seven-headed serpent | 55 |
| 1970's best seller "Dr. ___ Diet Revolution" | 58 |
| 1970 song with the lyric "Whisper words of wisdom" | 60 |
| 1970 Richard Thomas film adapted from a Richard Bradford novel | 62 |
| 1970 Leon Uris book, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 58 |
| 1970 hit with the lyric "That's how easy love can be" | 67 |
| 1970 hit that asks about its title, "What is it good for?" | 68 |
| 1970 hit for Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, with "The" | 69 |
| 1970 hit about a girl with "a dark brown voice" | 57 |
| 1970 Grammy winner for writing "A Boy Named Sue" (25) | 63 |
| 1970 British sci-fi film, "The Mind of Mr. ___" | 57 |
| 1970 #1 hit with the lyric "Or simple as do re mi" | 60 |
| 1969 platinum record for Creedence Clearwater Revival | 53 |
| 1969 Philip K. Dick novel about the nature of reality | 53 |
| 1969 Luchino Visconti film, With ''The'' | 56 |
| 1969 #3 hit ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 53 |
| 1968-'70 TV series in which Robert Wagner played a cat burglar | 66 |
| 1968 title role for which Cliff Robertson won an Oscar | 54 |
| 1968 song with the lyric "We all want to change the world" | 68 |
| 1968 song title words before "I got love in my tummy" | 63 |
| 1968 song from the Beatles' "White Album" | 55 |
| 1968 Sly and the Family Stone song calling for movement | 55 |
| 1968 Moody Blues' album In Search of the Lost ____ | 57 |
| 1968 film or 2001 Broadway hit, with "The" | 52 |
| 1968 album with the song "John Looked Down" | 53 |
| 1967 Van Morrison album with the hit "Brown Eyed Girl" | 64 |
| 1967 hit that begins "You know that it would be untrue" | 65 |
| 1967 Box Tops hit about part of a puzzle answer grid? | 53 |
| 1967 #1 hit with the lyric "Who could hang a name on you?" | 68 |
| 1966 Woody Allen comedy about a secret egg salad recipe | 55 |
| 1966 Sporting News College Coach of the Year Parseghian | 55 |
| 1966 song that asked "What's it all about?" | 57 |
| 1966 musical whose only characters were a husband and wife | 58 |
| 1966 hit from the album "Sounds of Silence" | 53 |
| 1966 hit for Cher with the subtitle "My Baby Shot Me Down" | 68 |
| 1966 Grammy winner for "If He Walked Into My Life" | 60 |
| 1966 gold album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass | 54 |
| 1966 Broadway hit with the song "My Cup Runneth Over" | 63 |
| 1966 antidrug pop song recorded by Paul Revere & the Raiders | 64 |
| 1965 song with the lyric "Think of what you're saying" | 68 |
| 1965 Simon & Garfunkel hit, with "The" | 52 |
| 1965 movie with the working title "Eight Arms to Hold You" | 68 |
| 1965 hit that ends "My baby don't care" | 53 |
| 1965 Beach Boys hit, and hint to this puzzle's theme | 56 |
| 1965 and 1966 concert site for this puzzle's subjects | 57 |
| 1964 Record of the Year Grammy winner, with "The" | 59 |
| 1964 cross-country skiing gold medalist Mäntyranta | 53 |
| 1964 and 1968 Oscar-nominated role for Peter O'Toole | 56 |
| 1964 #1 hit by the Shangri-Las ... or this puzzle's theme | 61 |
| 1963 submarine thriller by Alistair MacLean made into a 1968 film | 65 |
| 1963 song investigated by the F.B.I. for supposedly obscene lyrics | 66 |
| 1963 Robert Mitchum film, and this puzzle's theme | 53 |
| 1963 Peter Weiss play set in the French Revolution, briefly | 59 |
| 1963 hit by The Angels, ''I ___ Him'' | 53 |
| 1963 film of a Chekhov classic with Laurence Olivier | 52 |
| 1963 film based on Larry McMurtry's "Horseman, Pass By" | 69 |
| 1963 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee for Roman Polanski | 64 |
| 1962 Paul Anka hit that translates to "That Kiss" | 59 |
| 1962 movie whose title means "danger" in Swahili | 58 |
| 1962 hit with the repeated lyric "A little bit softer now" | 68 |
| 1962 hit attributed to The Crystals but sung by The Blossoms | 60 |
| 1962 #1 hit with the lyric "True love will never die" | 63 |
| 1962 #1 hit by the group hinted at in this puzzle's theme | 61 |
| 1961 Winston Graham novel on which a Hitchcock film was based | 61 |
| 1961 Tony-winning musical inspired by Elvis being drafted | 57 |