| JOAD | "The Ghost of Tom ___" (1995 Bruce Springsteen album) |
| MONKEYS | 12 in the title of a 1995 Bruce Willis film [NOTE: This puzzle contains twenty 12s, nineteen of which are in the clues. Can you find the lone 12 that's hidden in the answers? It's plainly visible, rea |
| HANKS | Tom ___, 1995 Best Actor Oscar winner (5) |
| DARKNESS | Bruce Springsteen album, ... On The Edge Of Town |
| THERIVER | #1 Bruce Springsteen album of 1980 |
| USA | Born in the ___ (Bruce Springsteen album) |
| STRONG | Only the ___ Survive, Bruce Springsteen album (6) |
| BORNTORUN | Iconic '75 Bruce Springsteen album |
| MAGIC | Bruce Springsteen album or Coldplay single (5) |
| BORNINTHEUSA | Bruce Springsteen album released in 1984 (4,2,3,3) |
| TUNNELOFLOVE | Bruce Springsteen album on which he had a Brilliant Disguise (6,2,4) |
| BORN | "___ to Run" -- 1975 Bruce Springsteen album (4) |
| LETTER | ------ to You, 2020 Bruce Springsteen album (6) |
| NEBRASKA | US state, or a Bruce Springsteen album (8) |
| THEUSA | 1984 Bruce Springsteen album: 'Born in ___ _._._.' |
| SAWYER | "The Adventures of Tom ___" (Mark Twain book) |
| DOOLEY | "The Legend of Tom ___" (1959) |
| KEMPE | The Ghost of Thomas -; book by Penelope Lively, author of Moon Tiger and the memoir Life in the Garden (5) |
| LIVELY | Dame Penelope -, author of The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, A Stitch in Time, The Voyage of QV66 and other novels for children (6) |
| PAST | The Ghost of Christmas ___ was the first of Scrooge's three spirited visitors |