Letter OTHER
1950s pinup queen
1970s first lady
'40s film superstar
1940s actress/dancer with famous legs
*99-year-old Emmy-winning actress with eight-plus decades in show business
1976 Peace Nobelist from Northern Ireland who co-founded Community of Peace People
'40s tennis great Pauline
1946 Wimbledon champion Pauline
1950 Ethel Waters sitcom
1950's sitcom starring Ethel Waters
90210
90210 preceder, in a TV show
1984 Eddie Murphy flick
1984 action film originally intended to star Sylvester Stallone
'60's sitcom
1945 Phyllis Thaxter/Edmund Gwenn film
2005 Nicole Kidman film
1960s British comedy troupe
2004 Kevin Spacey tribute (to Bobby Darin)
#1 bud 4 life
#1 fav pal
#1 pal, lately
#1 texting pal
4EVA pals
2016 Spielberg film, with "The"
2016 Spielberg movie, with "The"
2016 film based on a Roald Dahl novel, with "The"
'30s nightclub employee
'90s Pakistani leader
'60s African civil war participant
'60s Nigerian separatist state
'60s sessionist nation
1960s African famine site
1960s African secessionist state
1960s civil war site
1967 seceder
1967-'70 secessionist state
1967-70 war site
1967 secessionist
2019 U.S. Open champ Andreescu
1976
1976, e.g.
7/4/1976 celebration
2 hearts or 3 clubs e.g.
#2 for #44
#46
1987-95 Senate Judiciary Committee head
2008 Palin counterpart
2017 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
2020 candidate
47th U.S. vice president
47th Vice President
1♥, 2NT, 3♦, etc.
15-year-old star of "Ulee's Gold", 1997
'88 Tom Hanks comedy
1988 Hanks comedy
1988 Hanks film
1988 Hanks film with a fortune-telling machine
1988 Hanks movie
1988 Tom Hanks comedy
1988 Tom Hanks film
1988 Tom Hanks film (and a link to the starts of this puzzle's other six film titles)
1988 comedy directed by Penny Marshall
1988 fantasy film
1961 Jimmy Dean chart-topper
13½-ton tourist attraction
1856 installation
8'2" children's character
8-foot-2-inch Muppet
"1984" figure
"1984" personage
1988 Bette Midler/Lily Tomlin comedy
1988 Midler/Tomlin farce
1988 comedy with Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin
1959 movie starring Red as Randy Sherman (with "The")
1999 Adam Sandler movie
2014 Tim Burton film
2003 Tim Burton film
"21. I have a tough time listening to ___ in front of women ('Ready To Die' is too misogynist)"
1962 #1 hit by the group hinted at in this puzzle's theme
1962 #1 hit for five weeks
1962 hit by The 4 Seasons
30-ounce drink brand
32-ounce purchase at 7-Eleven
7-Eleven drink
1971 John Wayne film
*2010s HBO drama series that starred Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman
2000s HBO drama set in Utah
98 + 6
1996 Foo Fighters hit
1996 Foo Fighters hit whose music video parodies a Mentos commercial
2012 Drew Barrymore film
2000 Martin Lawrence movie
2000 Martin Lawrence/Nia Long comedy
1989 LL Cool J single
1998 Michael Moore film, with "The"
#34 on the Red Sox, affectionately
2000s Red Sox hero, familiarly
2013 World Series M.V.P., to fans
1994 hit whose title is rapped after "I love it when you call me"
1995 platinum rap hit that starts "To all the ladies in the place with style and grace"
'90s rapper with the hit "Still Not a Player"
1970s Cincinnati team nickname
18-wheeler
12 Ben and Bertha
24".
1946 Bogart/Bacall film, with "The"
2002 Kenny Chesney song
2003 Kenny Chesney song
1962 Kerouac novel
1963 Jack Kerouac novel
8 A.M. surgeons
1988 comedy that takes place in a circus
6' 10" pitcher Randy Johnson's nickname
1975 Joni Mitchell hit
10-year-old's transportation
40 km part of an Olympic triathlon
13 motorcycles?
26" rubber band?
1946 atomic bomb test site
1964 Avalon/Funicello musical comedy
1964 Frankie Avalon/Annette Funicello musical comedy
1960s-'70s anti-apartheid activist Steve
1980 Peter Gabriel tune about the government murder of a black activist
1987 Oscar-nominated role for Denzel Washington
2019 AP Female Athlete of the Year
2004 autobiographer
1987 Worst Actor winner
2009 Mark Twain Prize awardee
1965 Patty Duke film
5-time Grammy winner Eilish
1960 World Series hero?
1791 legislation
1999 Destiny's Child hit
1999 Destiny's Child hit with the words "You're slowly making me pay for things"
1996 Congressional Gold Medal recipient
1971 Tom Laughlin cult film
1976 title film role for Robby Benson
1995 Adam Sandler title role
19th-century baseball player who became an evangelist
1985 Neil Simon play setting
1985 Neil Simon play
1935-37 home for Hemingway
"5,000 Nights at the Opera" author
5-by-5
5x5-square sheet for a number-calling game
11-time Olympic swimming medalist Matt
1980s Olympic swimmer Matt
1988 Olympics swimming sensation
2005's "Walk the Line" and others
19th-century French physicist
#33 for the Celtics
1988 Clint Eastwood film
1988 film about Charlie Parker
2018 Netflix film which inspired a host of visually impaired challenges
2018 Netflix movie that spawned a viral blindfold challenge
2018 horror movie that has spawned dumb blindfolded memes, and a hint to this puzzle's theme
1996 Robin Williams comedy, with "The"
1960s musical title character
1962 Lancaster title role
2014 Best Picture
1962 Burt Lancaster film?
*1990 Gibson/Hawn film
1990 Mel Gibson film
1990 Mel Gibson/Goldie Hawn adventure film
1990 Mel Gibson/Goldie Hawn comedy-thriller
1963 Alfred Hitchcock film, with "The"
2008 Beijing Olympics stadium, with "the"
1984 Matthew Modine movie
1984 Matthew Modine movie with a Peter Gabriel soundtrack
1984 Matthew Modine title role
1984 film with Matthew Modine
65 + 20
100 Ethiopian cents
1915 Civil War epic, with "The"
1915 Lillian Gish film, with "The"
1915 film epic, with "The"
#9
4 __ in __
1947 Cary Grant film, with "The"
0 or 1, digitally
0 or 1, in computer science
1/8 of a byte
12½ cents
0's and 1's, to a programmer
0s and 1s, in computing
12.5-cent units
1998 Grammy-nominated song by the Verve
100 times a year, roughly
1979-'81 trucker-with-chimp TV comedy
1980s Rowan Atkinson sitcom series set in various historical periods
'50s electronics purchase
'50s living room appliance
1877 Anna Sewell novel
5810 Wireless, e.g.
8-ball's color
1991 Joyce Carol Oates play
1952 Boris Karloff film, with "The"
1985 animated Disney film, with "The"
1974 movie remade in 2006
1986 show about a crimefighting illusionist
1924 Kentucky Derby winner or a 1947 Anthony Quinn drama
2001 Josh Hartnett film
2001 Ridley Scott movie
2001 film set in Mogadishu
1966 Los Bravos hit
21 in cards
21 in two cards
21 areas
1954 monster film setting
1936 Humphrey Bogart film
2015 hit for Little Mix
1970 Santana hit
1970 top-10 hit for Santana
1971 Santana hit
1971 hit by Santana
2015 Whitey Bulger biopic
1987 market crash, and this puzzle's title, whose first word can precede each word in the starred answers
1947 film with Deborah Kerr and Jean Simmons set in a converted Himalayan seraglio
2010 installment in the Call of Duty series
1958 Loren/Quinn movie (with "The")
1991 Michael Jackson hit
1991 hit by Michael Jackson
1960s-'70s radical
2018 blockbuster film based on a Marvel comic
60's radical
1989 Michael Douglas movie set in Japan
1989 Michael Douglas thriller
2010 Natalie Portman thriller
1990 #1 hit for Alannah Myles
1975 #1 hit for the Doobie Brothers
1975 hit for the Doobie Brothers
1986 Debra Winger suspense film
1972 movie about an African vampire
1998 superhero film with two sequels
2002 sequel starring Wesley Snipes
1982 Harrison Ford film
1982 Harrison Ford flick
1982 Harrison Ford sci-fi film
1884 loser to Cleveland
4th century martyred saint.
"10" director Edwards
2007 "American Idol" runner-up ___ Lewis
15,781 ft. peak, Mont ___.
26-season NFLer
"420" follower
1990 Bon Jovi song
'74 Mel Brooks comedy
1974 Mel Brooks comedy
1974 Mel Brooks spoof
9 +1