The Eighty Pop Culture

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• The decade's starting year, when paired with nine (6)
• Sarcastic alien puppet who loved to chase cats on NBC (3)
• Chemical hair treatment used to get maximum volume and curls (4)
• Apple computer introduced in 1984 with a famous dystopian commercial (3)
• Stretchy synthetic fiber found in every aerobics video (7)
• Nintendo console that single-handedly saved the home video game industry (3)
• The Queen of Pop who performed Like a Virgin at the first VMAs (7)
• Shorthand for the Eastern European Time zone, crucial in cold war news (3)
• Singer who made a major comeback with If I Could Turn Back Time on a battleship (4)
• The 1986 Tom Cruise film that boosted naval aviator recruitment (6)

Down

• Hair styling product used to achieve gravity-defying spikes (3)
• Term for a young urban professional obsessed with wealth and status (6)
• Goth rock band behind Lovesong and Pictures of You (4)
• Audio format requiring a pencil to manually wind loose tape (8)
• Yellow arcade character plagued by Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde (6)
• US President who spent nearly the entire decade in the Oval Office (6)
• New wave band known for dome hats and the hit Whip It (4)

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