| THREEMILEISLAND | Location of a 1979 accident |
| TMI | Pa. site of a 1979 accident |
| MILE | Three ___ Island (site of a 1979 nuclear accident) |
| IRAN | Scene of a 1979 revolution |
| EREBUS | Antarctic site of a 1979 disaster (5,6) |
| MOUNT | Antarctic site of a 1979 disaster (5,6) |
| MORANT | Australian folk hero "Breaker" __, subject of a 1979 film |
| ERMA | "Aunt" of a 1979 best seller |
| EVA | Lead role of a 1979 Broadway hit |
| AMITYVILLE | Setting of a 1979 horror flick |
| RAE | Middle name in the title of a 1979 Best Picture nominee |
| TUSK | Name of a 1979 album and single by rock band Fleetwood Mac (4) |
| RUST | In an advertising slogan borrowed for the title of a 1979 Neil Young album, what never sleeps? (4) |
| KRAMER | Name of the family in a 1979 film about a bitter divorce struggle, Best Picture winner at the 1980 Oscars (6) |
| HORACE | The Diary Of ___ Wimp, a 1979 hit for the Electric Light Orchestra (6) |
| MALCOLMMUGGERIDGE | Journalist who, with Mervyn Stockwood, attacked The Life Of Brian in a 1979 TV interview |
| ALIEN | With the main xenomorph creature designed by H. R. Giger, a 1979 Ridley Scott film with Sigourney Weaver that developed into a media franchise (5) |
| DRAGONFLY | Racehorse on which Basil Fawlty won £75 in a 1979 episode of Fawlty Towers (9) |
| YMCA | "A place you can go ... when you're short on your dough," in a 1979 hit |
| AGNESOFGOD | Based on a 1979 play, which 1985 film starring Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly involves a nun giving birth? (5,2,3) |
