| Beginning of a cowboy song refrain | 34 |
| Beginning of a conformist judge's axiom? | 44 |
| Beginning of a chilly definition | 32 |
| Beginning of a boss's request | 33 |
| Beginning of a Beatles title from The White Album | 49 |
| Beginning of a 1969 Stevie Wonder title | 39 |
| Beginning of "the season to be jolly" | 47 |
| Beginning of ''Nowhere Man'' | 44 |
| Beginning magician's arsenal? | 33 |
| Beginning golfer's bane, perhaps | 36 |
| Beginning for this puzzle's five endings | 44 |
| Beginning for dollars or chemicals | 34 |
| Beginning for a form filler-outeR | 33 |
| Beginning for "while," at one time | 44 |
| Beginning for "trooper" | 33 |
| Beginning for "puncture" | 34 |
| Beginning for "normal" | 32 |
| Beginning for "lateral" | 33 |
| Beginning for ''while'' | 39 |
| Beginning drawing class, perhaps | 32 |
| Beginning and ending of every classic? | 38 |
| Beginning a downward spiral, in TV lingo | 40 |
| Beginners' rentals on snowy slopes | 38 |
| Beginner's supposed advantage | 33 |
| Beginner's course in demolition? | 36 |
| Begin, as a lauch sequence maybe | 32 |
| Begin's Camp David counterpart | 34 |
| Begin to leave one's dreams behind? | 39 |
| Begin to assume the lotus position | 34 |
| Begin the ____ : '40s song | 32 |
| Begin operating or stop operating | 33 |
| Begin gazing at someone intently and harshly? | 45 |
| Begin energetically, with "into" | 42 |
| Begin business after a fire, say | 32 |
| Begin a night in the woods, perhaps | 35 |
| Begian musical-instrument maker: 1791–1865 | 49 |
| Beggar's request at the lake? | 33 |
| Beggar with skills in the kitchen? | 34 |
| Beggar in the "Odyssey" | 33 |
| Began golfing, with "up" | 34 |
| Began a round, with "off" | 35 |
| Began a hole (with "off") | 35 |
| Began a hole (with ''off'') | 43 |
| Beg for tales that devilish rascals tell? (7) | 45 |
| Before-the-fact, in combinations | 32 |
| Before, either way you look at it | 33 |
| Before, before we used "before" | 41 |
| Before the state's cut, as income | 37 |
| Before the procedure, informally | 32 |
| Before the present, before the present | 38 |
| Before the present time, in the past | 36 |
| Before the court, in lawyerspeak | 32 |
| Before long, after "in" | 33 |
| Before houses were weatherproofed? | 34 |
| Before computers, were there ...? | 34 |
| Before being used, as a bathroom? | 33 |
| Before any of us can remember, perhaps | 38 |
| Before and after "Ã ," compared with | 48 |
| Before analysis, after "a" | 36 |
| Before adjustments, as in statistics | 36 |
| Before about 1984, pop-singerwise? | 34 |
| Before a winner can be determined | 33 |
| Before a big early 20th-cen. conflict | 37 |
| Befitting an emperor's residence | 36 |
| Beetles, vis-à-vis insects | 33 |
| Beetles sacred to ancient Egyptians | 35 |
| Beetle's boss, in the comics | 32 |
| Beetle with four wheels, slangily | 33 |
| Beetle that was all the rage in ancient Egypt | 45 |
| Beetle sometimes depicted in jewelry | 36 |
| Beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians | 45 |
| Beetle Bailey's sleeping spot | 33 |
| Beethoven’s “___ to Joy” | 36 |
| Beethoven's ___ ("Choral") | 40 |
| Beethoven's Third, popularly | 32 |
| Beethoven's third, familiarly | 33 |
| Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, familiarly | 42 |
| Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 ___ flat | 39 |
| Beethoven's Symphony #2 __ major | 36 |
| Beethoven's Opus 20, for one | 32 |
| Beethoven's Opus 20 and others | 34 |
| Beethoven's Fifth, e.g.: Abbr. | 34 |
| Beethoven's Fifth, e.g. (abbr.) | 35 |
| Beethoven's fifth piano concerto, familiarly | 48 |
| Beethoven's 7th is in it: abbr. | 35 |
| Beethoven's "_____ Solemnis" | 42 |
| Beethoven's "_____ Quartet" | 41 |
| Beethoven's "_____ Overture" | 42 |
| Beethoven's "___ to Joy" | 38 |
| Beethoven's "___ Sonata" | 38 |
| Beethoven's "___ Solemnis" | 40 |
| Beethoven's "___ Joy" | 35 |
| Beethoven's "___ Concerto" | 40 |
| Beethoven's "__ to Joy" | 37 |
| Beethoven's "__ Solemnis" | 39 |
| Beethoven's "Waldstein," e.g. | 43 |
| Beethoven's "Third ___ Flat Major" | 48 |
| Beethoven's "The ___ Concerto" | 44 |
| Beethoven's "The Ghost," e.g. | 43 |
| Beethoven's "Tempest," e.g. | 41 |