| The Hula Hoop, once | 19 |
| Slinkys or Magic 8 Balls, once | 30 |
| Short-lived preoccupation | 25 |
| Rubik cube or pet rock, e.g. | 28 |
| Many a new dance | 16 |
| It doesn't last long | 24 |
| Hula hoops or pet rocks | 23 |
| Hula hoops in the 1950s, e.g. | 29 |
| Hot new thing | 13 |
| Flavor of the month, so to speak | 32 |
| Flavor of the month | 19 |
| Far-flung fad | 13 |
| Crosswords, once | 16 |
| Crack in glaze or enamel | 24 |
| Charleston or lindy, once | 25 |
| CB radios, once | 15 |
| Briefly hot item | 16 |
| Beanie Babies, once | 19 |
| ''The Twist'' was one | 37 |
| Maddened | 8 |
| Amok | 4 |
| Manic | 5 |
| Fads | 4 |
| Addles | 6 |
| Manias | 6 |
| Screwball | 9 |
| Wacko | 5 |
| Bats | 4 |
| Meshuga | 7 |
| Touched in the head | 19 |
| Wacked out | 10 |
| Patsy Cline hit | 15 |
| Not making sense | 16 |
| Like a fox? | 11 |
| Beatnik's exclamation | 25 |
| "This is going to sound dumb ..." | 43 |
| Screwball character on "The Simpsons" | 47 |
| Perot theme song | 16 |
| Like Elroy Hirsch's legs | 28 |
| Kind of guilt | 13 |
| Half-baked, as ideas | 20 |
| Bizarre, as a garment | 21 |
| "The Gods Must Be ___," 1981 film | 43 |
| ___ Horse, Sioux chief | 22 |
| __ eights | 9 |
| Kids' card game | 19 |
| Popular card game | 17 |
| Fast-paced card game | 20 |
| Uno relative | 12 |
| Loony pasteboards game? | 23 |
| Game on which Uno is based | 26 |
| Little Bighorn victor | 21 |
| Revered Sioux chief | 19 |
| Little Bighorn fighter | 22 |
| Custer opponent | 15 |
| Sioux leader at Little Bighorn | 30 |
| Sioux chief (and what can be found in the circled squares?) | 59 |
| Oglala Sioux leader | 19 |
| Oglala Sioux chief | 18 |
| Longtime backup band for Neil Young | 35 |
| Little Big Horn commander | 25 |
| His memorial sculpture is still a work-in-progress | 50 |
| Famed Sioux chief | 17 |
| Big name in Dakota history | 26 |
| Big name at Little Big Horn | 27 |
| Outrageous thought | 18 |
| Wild notion | 11 |
| Quixotic notion | 15 |
| Nut's suggestion | 20 |
| It's unlikely to work | 25 |
| Nickname for NFLer Elroy Hirsch | 31 |
| Elroy Hirsch | 12 |
| Grating sound | 13 |
| Old floorboards sound | 21 |
| Floorboard sound | 16 |
| Sign of age | 11 |
| Old floorboard sound | 20 |
| Spooky sound | 12 |
| Haunted house noise | 19 |
| Bones and doors may do it | 25 |
| Squeaky sound | 13 |
| Sound of old floorboards | 24 |
| Result of an oil shortage? | 26 |
| Staircase sound | 15 |
| Squeak | 6 |
| Sound like rusted hinges | 24 |
| Old-floor sound | 15 |
| Old floor noise | 15 |
| Floorboards sound | 17 |
| Unwelcome sound for a burglar | 29 |
| Stair noise | 11 |
| Spooky noise | 12 |
| Sound rickety | 13 |
| Sound of an unsound floor | 25 |
| Sound in a haunted house | 24 |
| Sound from an unoiled hinge | 27 |
| Rusty hinge sound | 17 |
| Rusty gate sound | 16 |
| Reason to lubricate | 19 |
| Old bones may do it | 19 |