| 1974 lyric repeated after "Como una promesa" | 54 |
| 1974 Mocedades hit subtitled "Touch the Wind" | 55 |
| 1974 top 10 Al Green hit subtitled "Make Me Happy" | 60 |
| 1974 Top 10 hit whose title means "It is you" | 55 |
| 1974 top 10 hit whose title means "You Are" | 53 |
| 1975 blockbuster whose main character was nicknamed Bruce | 57 |
| 1975 inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame | 54 |
| 1975 musical with a Yellow Brick Road, with "The" | 59 |
| 1975 seminal green movement novel by Ernest Callenbach | 54 |
| 1975 Southern rock hit stereotypically requested at concerts | 60 |
| 1975 thriller that took a big bite at the box office | 52 |
| 1976 "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" duettist | 56 |
| 1976 Broadway musical with the hit song "Day by Day" | 62 |
| 1976 comedy film, and a description of this puzzle's center | 63 |
| 1976 Emmy winner for "Evening at Symphony" | 52 |
| 1976 film about Wall Street pessimists, with "The"? | 61 |
| 1976 film built on "Green Hornet" TV episodes | 55 |
| 1976 film with the Oscar-nominated song "Ave Satani" | 62 |
| 1976 greatest hits album with the track "Evil Woman" | 62 |
| 1976 horror film whose remake was released, appropriately, on 6/6/06 | 68 |
| 1977 bestseller situated at Boston Memorial Hospital | 52 |
| 1977 biographical Broadway play starring Anne Bancroft | 54 |
| 1977 Bo Derek movie in which her character's leg gets bitten off | 68 |
| 1977 George Burns film that was "an almighty laugh" | 61 |
| 1977 Herbert Ross film with 11 Oscar nominations and no wins | 60 |
| 1977 movie in which Bo Derek's leg is bitten off | 52 |
| 1977 Oscar nominee for both Best Actor and Best Writing | 55 |
| 1977 Paul Davis hit that spent 25 weeks in the Top 40 | 53 |
| 1977 Paul Newman hockey movie that featured the Hanson Brothers | 63 |
| 1977 Pulitzer-winning play by D.L. Coburn, with "The" | 63 |
| 1977 Ramones single about fuzzy fruit from Long Island? | 55 |
| 1977 Sex Pistols song ... or their first record label | 53 |
| 1977 Steely Dan album that spent 52 weeks in the top 40 | 55 |
| 1977 Tony nominee Andrea for the title role in "Annie" | 64 |
| 1978 #1 Donna Summer hit that covered a 1968 #2 hit by Richard Harris | 69 |
| 1978 #1 hit for the Commodores (and this puzzle's title) | 60 |
| 1978 Billy Joel hit that gave its name to a 2002 Broadway musical | 65 |
| 1978 Broadway revue that opens with "Hot August Night" | 64 |
| 1978 Devo album cover query "___ We Not Men?" | 55 |
| 1978 Grammy winner for the jazz album "Friends" | 57 |
| 1978 Richard Burton "chick flick," with "The"? | 66 |
| 1978 stoner film with "Low Rider" on its soundtrack | 61 |
| 1978-80 F.B.I. sting that forced a U.S. senator to resign | 57 |
| 1979 #1 song with the chorus line "Turn the other way" | 64 |
| 1979 Broadway hit set during the Industrial Revolution | 54 |
| 1979 Broadway musical that celebrated old-style vaudeville | 58 |
| 1979 disco hit that jocularly promotes military enlistment | 58 |
| 1979 film co-starring the youngest-ever Oscar nominee | 53 |
| 1979 film with the tagline "A story of chance" | 56 |
| 1979 Fleetwood Mac album that the USC Marching Band guested on | 62 |
| 1979 hit "What ___ Gonna Do With My Lovin'" | 57 |
| 1979 hit inspired by an ex-boyfriend of Debbie Harry's | 58 |
| 1979 Tony winner for "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" | 57 |
| 1980 album with the hit "You Shook Me All Night Long" | 63 |
| 1980 Andrzej Wajda film in which Lech Walesa appears | 52 |
| 1980 Disney comedy about an all-night puzzle-solving race | 57 |
| 1980 hit with the line "I longed to speak but did not dare" | 69 |
| 1980 hit with the lyric "It took a long time to know him" | 67 |
| 1980 Pulitzer-winning book filled with wordplay and paradoxes | 61 |
| 1980's George Peppard series, with "The" | 54 |
| 1980's-90's Boston Bruin whose #8 jersey is retired | 59 |
| 1980-83 Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Grammy winner | 56 |
| 1980s "NBC News Overnight" anchor / Feared insect [merger] | 68 |
| 1980s Christian rocker Rick, formerly of The Outlaws | 52 |
| 1980s drama set in a firm [SEE IMPORTANT NOTE ABOVE] | 52 |
| 1980s nickname of the University of Houston's basketball team | 65 |
| 1980s Parker Brothers game played on an octagonal board | 55 |
| 1980s pop duo with an exclamation point in their name | 53 |
| 1980s Rowan Atkinson sitcom series set in various historical periods | 68 |
| 1980s Saturday morning cartoon characters who lived underwater | 62 |
| 1980s show set to become a 2008 movie (with "The") | 60 |
| 1980s sitcom in the memoir "Permanent Midnight" | 57 |
| 1980s TV program that caused a rift between Carson and Rivers | 61 |
| 1980s TV series about soldiers of fortune, with "The" | 63 |
| 1980s-'90s hip-hop show co-hosted by Fab 5 Freddy | 53 |
| 1981 film in which Manhattan is a maximum-security prison | 57 |
| 1981 film that garnered Warren Beatty a Best Director Oscar | 59 |
| 1981 musical with the song "One Night Only" | 53 |
| 1982 #1 hit with the lyric "living in perfect harmony" | 64 |
| 1982 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nominee featuring cross-dressing | 67 |
| 1982 biopic about train robber Bill Miner, "The ___" | 62 |
| 1982 Donald Fagen hit subtitled "What a Beautiful World" | 66 |
| 1982 Emmy nominee for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | 65 |
| 1982 film whose 2010 sequel was subtitled "Legacy" | 60 |
| 1982 film with the tagline "They're here" | 55 |
| 1982 Flock of Seagulls hit subtitled "So Far Away" | 60 |
| 1982 Grammy-winning singer for "Gershwin Live!" | 57 |
| 1982 James Bamford book about the NSA, with "The" | 59 |
| 1982 Joan Jett and the Blackhearts song for tree fanciers? | 58 |
| 1982 Ngaio Marsh novel whose title comes from “Macbeth” | 63 |
| 1982 sci-fi film set at the ENCOM software corporation | 54 |
| 1983 #1 hit with the lyric "Put on your red shoes" | 60 |
| 1983 film that won the Oscar for Best Music, Original Song | 58 |
| 1983 memoir whose first part is called "Pursuit" | 58 |
| 1983 one-hit wonder of the Neue Deutsche Welle genre | 52 |
| 1983 Oscar-winning film for Best Original Song Score | 52 |
| 1983 song that begins "Hate New York City" | 52 |
| 1983 song where the title character gets thanked a lot | 54 |
| 1984 action film originally intended to star Sylvester Stallone | 63 |
| 1984 Elton John hit subtitled "Say So Much" | 53 |