| AFLCIO | Grp. created by a 1955 merger |
| OPEC | Grp. created at the Baghdad Conference, 1960 |
| DOE | Federal grp. created in 1977 |
| AFL | Org. that was part of a 1955 merger, or another org. that was part of a 1970 merger |
| CIO | Labor grp. in a 1955 merger |
| AFOFL | 1955 merger partner, familiarly |
| ONLYYOU | Title of a 1955 song by The Platters and a 1982 song by Yazoo (4,3) |
| HES | ___ a Tramp (song from a 1955 Disney movie) |
| TRAMP | He's a ____ (song from a 1955 Disney movie) |
| FOY | Eddie -, US vaudeville artist portrayed by Bob Hope in a 1955 biopic (3) |
| DEEPBLUESEA | The _ _ _, 1952 play by Terence Rattigan adapted for a 1955 film starring Vivien Leigh (4,4,3) |
| LADYANDTHETRAMP | Story about a romance between two dogs in a 1955 animated and 2019 live action film (4,3,3,5) |
| DOROTHYGALE | Nine-year-old Sharon Weron was compared to this film character when she survived a 1.25-mile trip in a 1955 South Dakota tornado |
| ASPECTS | --- Of Love, Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on a 1955 novella by David Garnett (7) |
| AUNTIEMAME | 1958 film based on a 1955 novel by Edward Everett Tanner III, under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis (6,4) |
| ERNESTBORGN | A 1955 Oscar winner |
| ELOISE | Title heroine of a 1955 book |
| LADY | Tramp's girlfriend in a 1955 Disney movie |
| CHASED | Like Maybellene in a 1955 song |
| TUTTIFRUTTI | A 1955 Little Richard song, and an ice cream flavour |
