| Backwards, to Barnacle Bill | 27 |
| Broadcast workers' org. | 27 |
| Bacteriologist's supply | 27 |
| Bacteriologist's medium | 27 |
| Better to do this than not? | 27 |
| Brought to desired maturity | 27 |
| Big title for a Turk (Var.) | 27 |
| Biggest toad in the puddle? | 27 |
| Blubbering fool of fiction? | 27 |
| Biblical king and a captain | 27 |
| Be in the grip of la grippe | 27 |
| Black-and-tan-coated canine | 27 |
| Bygone Japanese audio brand | 27 |
| Bit of French on some menus | 27 |
| Bart Starr's alma mater | 27 |
| Banned '80s apple spray | 27 |
| Banned McIntosh application | 27 |
| Banned spray on apple trees | 27 |
| Big maker of metal products | 27 |
| Baseball postseason letters | 27 |
| Betsy's Wedding star | 27 |
| Bud's heavier relative? | 27 |
| Beverage for the inn crowd? | 27 |
| Beverage in a Maugham title | 27 |
| Blue Jay or Oriole, briefly | 27 |
| Bit of Weather Channel news | 27 |
| Boxing legend from Kentucky | 27 |
| Boxing great, or her father | 27 |
| Baba who stole from thieves | 27 |
| Baba, of Forty Thieves fame | 27 |
| Bit of checkpoint deception | 27 |
| Best defense, in some cases | 27 |
| Biography subtitle, perhaps | 27 |
| Breakout song for Pearl Jam | 27 |
| Basic subject in chemistry? | 27 |
| Berlin song of the 20's | 27 |
| Baseball brothers' name | 27 |
| Big family name in baseball | 27 |
| Baseballer Felipe or Moises | 27 |
| Big baseball family surname | 27 |
| Bernese or Dolomite feature | 27 |
| Brand that goes to the dogs | 27 |
| Both of racing's Unsers | 27 |
| Beginner's sax, usually | 27 |
| Between Wolfgang and Mozart | 27 |
| Big kitchen appliance maker | 27 |
| Brand of kitchen appliances | 27 |
| Blake of 'Gunsmoke' | 27 |
| Basketball's Stoudemire | 27 |
| Bahraini V.I.P.'s: Var. | 27 |
| Big name in petroleum, once | 27 |
| Become, with "to" | 27 |
| Bit of gear for a rock tour | 27 |
| Boosts, with "up" | 27 |
| Book collector's suffix | 27 |
| Basis for some word puzzles | 27 |
| British journalist Kaletsky | 27 |
| British spy, hanged in 1780 | 27 |
| Boxing trainer _____ Dundee | 27 |
| Brings to the boiling point | 27 |
| Belushi's breakout film | 27 |
| Brittany's patron saint | 27 |
| Boleyn, queen to Henry VIII | 27 |
| Battery current entry point | 27 |
| Breakdown of societal norms | 27 |
| Bard's "soon" | 27 |
| Before long, to Shakespeare | 27 |
| Bartlett's abbreviation | 27 |
| Blind supplement, sometimes | 27 |
| Bellum or meridian preceder | 27 |
| Body or corrosion beginning | 27 |
| Bloody battleground for Lee | 27 |
| Banderas of 'Evita' | 27 |
| Bony cavities, anatomically | 27 |
| Blacksmith's iron block | 27 |
| Blacksmith's instrument | 27 |
| Blacksmith's necessity | 27 |
| Big Internet serv. provider | 27 |
| Broad police alerts (abbr.) | 27 |
| Brandy distilled from cider | 27 |
| Birth mo. for some Tauruses | 27 |
| Busy months for accountants | 27 |
| Body of water north of Iran | 27 |
| Body of water south of Orsk | 27 |
| Beatitudes' second word | 27 |
| Bullrings, gridirons et al. | 27 |
| Bearer of the Golden Fleece | 27 |
| Best Picture winner in 2013 | 27 |
| Bush ex-spokesman Fleischer | 27 |
| Baby born on April 17, e.g. | 27 |
| Boats similar to Noah's | 27 |
| Battleship's protection | 27 |
| Biogenesis scandal nickname | 27 |
| Brewing coffee produces one | 27 |
| Bags of tricks, so to speak | 27 |
| Bad case of burning desire? | 27 |
| Belle ___ (Italian culture) | 27 |
| Botanist Gray and namesakes | 27 |
| Begin a mountaineering trek | 27 |
| Between continents, perhaps | 27 |