| 1996 Sylvester Stallone disaster movie set in a tunnel under the Hudson River | 77 |
| 1996 Garth Brooks song whose title completes the lyric "___ had once again found its way home" | 104 |
| 1996 film in which author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. plays a sad man on the street | 73 |
| 1996 blockbuster with the tagline "Don't make plans for August" | 77 |
| 1996 best-seller subtitled "And Other Lessons Children Teach Us" | 74 |
| 1995 song with the lyric "If God had a name, what would it be?" | 73 |
| 1995 political book subtitled "Leader of the Second American Revolution" | 82 |
| 1995 platinum rap hit that starts "To all the ladies in the place with style and grace" | 97 |
| 1995 film with the line "Alan, please, last time I played this game, it ruined my life" | 97 |
| 1995 bestseller in which #23 is "Don't Date a Married Man" | 72 |
| 1994 multi-Golden Raspberry-nominated film that lost in all categories to "Showgirls" | 95 |
| 1994 literary autobiography whose first chapter is titled "Infant Prodigy?" | 85 |
| 1994 "Saturday Night Live" movie spinoff on many "Worst Of" lists | 85 |
| 1993 rap hit with the repeated lyric "Bow wow wow yippy yo yippy yay" | 79 |
| 1993 rap hit in which Snoop Doggy Dogg popularized the term "bootylicious" | 84 |
| 1993 hit with the lyric "Keep playin' that song all night" | 72 |
| 1993 Brian Eno album named for an oil extracted from the flower of an orange tree | 81 |
| 1992 gold medalist who was a "Dancing With the Stars" champion | 72 |
| 1992 dystopian novel in which mass infertility has doomed the human race | 72 |
| 1992 Disney film for which a hockey team was named, with "The" | 72 |
| 1992 comedy with the tag line "Where the Stone Age meets the Rock Age" | 80 |
| 1992 chart-topper that mentions "my little turn on the catwalk" | 73 |
| 1991 film in which both lead actresses got Oscar nominations (neither of them won) | 82 |
| 1991 autobiography subtitled "Growing Up in the Jackson Family" | 73 |
| 1990s dance hit with that recurring line "Bada bwi ba ba bada bo" | 75 |
| 1990s boy band accused of lip syncing by people who were obviously just jealous, for short | 90 |
| 1990's sitcom based on the British series "One Foot in the Grave" | 79 |
| 1990 single with the line "What would you do/If my heart was torn in two?" | 84 |
| 1990 Ray Liotta film with the tagline "Three Decades of Life in the Mafia" | 84 |
| 1990 film with the tagline "The few. The proud. The totally insane." | 78 |
| 1989 movie with the line "Badgers? Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!" | 93 |
| 1988 Tom Hanks film (and a link to the starts of this puzzle's other six film titles) | 89 |
| 1988 Jean Claude Van Damme film, or where an L.A. gang docks their boats? | 73 |
| 1988 Errol Morris documentary about the murder of a police officer, with "The" | 88 |
| 1988 Best Picture, with the repeated line "I'm an excellent driver" | 81 |
| 1988 #1 song with the lyrics "You make me feel so fine / You keep me rocking all of the time" | 103 |
| 1987 market crash, and this puzzle's title, whose first word can precede each word in the starred answers | 109 |
| 1987 #1 hit with the line "Yo no soy marinero, soy capitán" | 72 |
| 1987 #1 Heart song that starts "I hear the ticking of the clock" | 74 |
| 1986 R.E.M. hit with the prechorus line "And tell the sky and tell the sky" | 85 |
| 1986 movie based on the Stephen King novella "The Body" ... and this puzzle's theme | 97 |
| 1986 comedy with the tagline "The Wizard of Auz hits The Big Apple!" | 78 |
| 1985 Smiths single with the line "I am human and I need to be loved / Just like everybody else does" | 110 |
| 1985 Ready for the World hit that knocked "Money for Nothing" out of the #1 spot | 90 |
| 1985 movie with the tagline "It's not just a game anymore" | 72 |
| 1985 John Cusack film with the tagline "Insanity doesn't run in the family, it gallops" | 101 |
| 1985 dystopian novel in which a theocracy has reduced women to second-class citizens | 84 |
| 1984 Tommy Lee Jones film set on the banks of the Mississippi, with "The" | 83 |
| 1984 Talking Heads film hailed as "one of the greatest rock movies ever made" | 87 |
| 1984 Patrick Swayze film about an early-morning Russian attack on America | 73 |
| 1984 movie with the tag line "It's 4 a.m., do you know where your car is?" | 88 |
| 1984 hit with the lyric "Have some more yogurt, have some more Spam" | 78 |
| 1984 film with the tagline "It's 4 a.m., do you know where your car is?" | 86 |
| 1984 film in which the main character works for the Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation | 87 |
| 1983 song with the lyrics: "Roll down the window, put down the top / Crank up the Beach Boys, baby" | 109 |
| 1983 song with the lyrics "Rollin' down the Imperial Highway / With a big nasty redhead at my side" | 113 |
| 1983 song with the lyric "Let's leave Chicago to the Eskimos" | 75 |
| 1983 Randy Newman song with the lyric "Looks like another perfect day" | 80 |
| 1983 hit with the lines "Dreams stay with you / Like a lover's oink / Fires the mountainside"? | 108 |
| 1983 film with the classic line "Say hello to my little friend!" | 74 |
| 1983 film about a brother and sister's journey from Guatemala to Los Angeles | 80 |
| 1983 comedy with the tagline "When these guys hit the street, guess what hits the fan" | 96 |
| 1983 comedy with the line "Kenny, don't paint your sister!" | 73 |
| 1983 action comedy with the tagline "When these guys hit the streets, guess what hits the fan" | 104 |
| 1982 George Clinton song sampled for Snoop's "What's My Name?" | 80 |
| 1982 Fleetwood Mac hit whose title is sung three times after "Come on and" | 84 |
| 1982 best seller subtitled "And Other Discoveries About Human Sexuality," with "The" | 104 |
| 1981 Hall & Oates song with the lyric "They're watching you" | 78 |
| 1981 comedy with the tagline "The story of a man who wanted to keep the world safe for democracy...and meet girls" | 124 |
| 1980s-'90s women's tennis player who was #1 for a record total of 377 weeks | 83 |
| 1980s-'90s talent show, and what you need to do to find this puzzle's theme | 83 |
| 1980s-'90s slugger who ranks fourth in career home runs by a switch hitter | 78 |
| 1980s-'90s series based on the fictional firm McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak | 86 |
| 1980s South African leader P.W., controversial for maintaining apartheid | 72 |
| 1980s Olympic star with the autobiography "Breaking the Surface" | 74 |
| 1980s group with two No. 1 hits, "Kyrie" and "Broken Wings" | 79 |
| 1980 William Hurt film (and what eight answers herein contain on a trip across the country) | 91 |
| 1980 text adventure that introduced the line "You were eaten by a grue" | 81 |
| 1980 romantic adventure film starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins | 75 |
| 1980 funk album from Slave with the hits "Watching You" and "Snap Shot" | 91 |
| 1980 comedy that "makes 'Meatballs' seem like 'Hamlet,'" according to Leonard Maltin | 110 |
| 1979 new wave classic that begins "Oh my little pretty one, pretty one" | 81 |
| 1979 hit with the lyric "You don't have to put on the red light" | 78 |
| 1979 film with the tagline "In space no one can hear you scream" | 74 |
| 1979 environmental bestseller subtitled "A new look at life on Earth" | 79 |
| 1979 Broadway hit with the song "On This Night of a Thousand Stars" | 77 |
| 1978 King novel rereleased in a "Complete and uncut" version in 1990 | 78 |
| 1978 hit with the lyric "You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal" | 88 |
| 1978 comedy set at Faber College (whose motto is "Knowledge is good") | 79 |
| 1978 Bob Marley hit whose title words are sung four times before "... that I'm feelin'" | 105 |
| 1977 memoir with the subtitle "The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School" | 104 |
| 1977 James Brolin thriller with the tagline "What EVIL drives ..." | 76 |
| 1977 double-platinum album with the hits "Peg" and "Deacon Blues" | 85 |
| 1977 David Bowie album whose cover was altered for his 2013 album "The Next Day" | 90 |
| 1977 cult film with the tagline "Where your nightmares end ..." | 73 |
| 1976 Neil Young-Stephen Stills single, and a phonetic hint to this puzzle | 73 |
| 1976 movie that parts of the other four movie titles describe from start to finish | 82 |
| 1976 best seller that opens "four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia" | 86 |
| 1975 musical with the song "Believe in Yourself," with "The" | 80 |
| 1975 film whose main character was nicknamed "Bruce" by the crew | 74 |