| Famous '50s flop | 20 |
| Famous '70s leak | 20 |
| Famous "500," for short | 33 |
| Famous "cannonball" of song | 37 |
| Famous "Chorus" | 25 |
| Famous "Flashdance" song | 34 |
| Famous "hostess with the mostest" | 43 |
| Famous "Long Hunter" | 30 |
| Famous "Long Knife" | 29 |
| Famous "Tonight Show" tomahawk tosser | 47 |
| Famous 12-book story | 20 |
| Famous 1796 speech | 18 |
| Famous 4 in Boston | 18 |
| Famous 50-oared ship | 20 |
| Famous 76er | 11 |
| Famous 97-lb. weakling | 22 |
| Famous abductor | 15 |
| Famous actor as a baby? | 23 |
| Famous actress from Hungary | 27 |
| Famous address | 14 |
| Famous adoption? | 16 |
| Famous African-American theater in NYC | 38 |
| Famous Alcatraz resident | 24 |
| Famous alley | 12 |
| Famous almost-last words | 24 |
| Famous also-ran | 15 |
| Famous alter ego | 16 |
| Famous alter ego of fiction | 27 |
| Famous American | 15 |
| Famous American twin? | 21 |
| Famous Amos | 11 |
| Famous Amos rival | 17 |
| Famous Amos, e.g.? | 18 |
| Famous Amy | 10 |
| Famous animal-rescue vessel | 27 |
| Famous annual navigator | 23 |
| Famous answer giver | 19 |
| Famous anthropogeographic distinction | 37 |
| Famous Apache | 13 |
| Famous ape-man? | 15 |
| Famous apple site | 17 |
| Famous archer | 13 |
| Famous architect | 16 |
| Famous aria from 'Carmen' | 33 |
| Famous ark-itect | 16 |
| Famous art buff | 15 |
| Famous Asia Minor peak | 22 |
| Famous Asia Minor peak, briefly | 31 |
| Famous assembly-line man | 24 |
| Famous astronomer and first Jupiter orbiter | 43 |
| Famous at-bat man | 17 |
| Famous Athenian | 15 |
| Famous Athenian skeptic | 23 |
| Famous aunt | 11 |
| Famous Auntie | 13 |
| Famous auto acronym | 19 |
| Famous auto flop | 16 |
| Famous auto-racing city | 23 |
| Famous aviator Earhart | 22 |
| Famous B-29 | 11 |
| Famous B-29's first name | 28 |
| Famous baseball brothers | 24 |
| Famous bassman who hates collars? | 33 |
| Famous bathrobe wearer, informally | 34 |
| Famous battle participants | 26 |
| Famous battleground | 19 |
| Famous beach | 12 |
| Famous bear | 11 |
| Famous bear or catcher | 22 |
| Famous Beatle bride | 19 |
| Famous bed tester | 17 |
| Famous bed-tester | 17 |
| Famous bell | 11 |
| Famous Ben | 10 |
| Famous Bethlehem sellout | 24 |
| Famous Big Apple restaurateur of the past | 41 |
| Famous bird | 11 |
| Famous bit of unreal estate | 27 |
| Famous Blocker | 14 |
| Famous blonde bombshell | 23 |
| Famous blues club chain (Abbr.) | 31 |
| Famous body builder? | 20 |
| Famous bodybuilder | 18 |
| Famous bonanza | 14 |
| Famous Borgia | 13 |
| Famous Boston #4 | 16 |
| Famous Boston dessert | 21 |
| Famous bovine | 13 |
| Famous boxer | 12 |
| Famous boy king | 15 |
| Famous boy-king | 15 |
| Famous boys-only school | 23 |
| Famous Brando cry | 17 |
| Famous bribe refuser | 20 |
| Famous bridge | 13 |
| Famous bridge jumper | 20 |
| Famous British family | 21 |
| Famous British univ. | 20 |
| Famous Broadway name | 20 |
| Famous brother | 14 |