| Basketball formation with numerous play options | 47 |
| Basketball game involving trick shots | 37 |
| Basketball game that involves spelling | 38 |
| Basketball game that may feature trick shots | 44 |
| Basketball great-turned-pitchman | 32 |
| Basketball Hall of Fame announcer Chick | 39 |
| Basketball Hall of Fame center since 2008 | 41 |
| Basketball Hall of Fame coach Hank | 34 |
| Basketball Hall of Fame nickname | 32 |
| Basketball Hall of Fame sportscaster Dick | 41 |
| Basketball Hall of Famer Archibald | 34 |
| Basketball Hall of Famer Donovan | 32 |
| Basketball Hall of Famer Drexler | 32 |
| Basketball Hall of Famer English | 32 |
| Basketball Hall of Famer Maravich | 33 |
| Basketball Hall of Famer Robertson | 34 |
| Basketball Hall of Famer Thurmond | 33 |
| Basketball Hall of Famer Wayne __ | 33 |
| Basketball Hall-of-Famer Archibald | 34 |
| Basketball Hall-of-Famer from the Celtics | 41 |
| Basketball Hall-of-Famer Harshman | 33 |
| Basketball Hall-of-Famer Hawkins | 32 |
| Basketball officials, informally | 32 |
| Basketball or football defense method | 37 |
| Basketball player rants and raves? | 34 |
| Basketball player who's popular at breakfast? | 49 |
| Basketball player's application | 35 |
| Basketball player's maneuver | 32 |
| Basketball powerunder John Wooden | 34 |
| Basketball power under John Wooden | 34 |
| Basketball recruiter's consideration | 40 |
| Basketball star turned so-called diplomat | 41 |
| Basketball team in need of a shower? | 36 |
| Basketball team on a record losing pace in 2010 | 47 |
| Basketball team owned in part by Jay-Z | 38 |
| Basketball team whose members have pet macaws? | 46 |
| Basketball tourn. won by N. C.: 1993 | 36 |
| Basketball's "Chocolate Thunder" | 46 |
| Basketball's "Clown Prince" | 41 |
| Basketball's "sixth man" | 38 |
| Basketball's "sixth man," e.g. | 44 |
| Basketball's "Wilt the ___" | 41 |
| Basketball's Erving, familiarly | 35 |
| Basketball's inflatable lining | 34 |
| Basketball's Irving, familiarly | 35 |
| Basketball's Isiah Thomas, to fans | 38 |
| Basketball's Magic, on scoreboards | 38 |
| Basketball's Olajuwan, before 1991 | 38 |
| Basketball's three-point line, e.g. | 39 |
| Basketball's Thurmond and Archibald | 39 |
| Basketball's Thurmond et at. | 32 |
| Basketball's __ "The Pearl" Monroe | 48 |
| Basketballer nicknamed the Big Aristotle | 40 |
| Basketballer nicknamed the Diesel | 33 |
| Basketballer Rodman is a suitor? | 32 |
| Basketballers' offensive drive | 34 |
| Basketballs, but not footballs, e.g. | 36 |
| Baskin who co-founded Baskin-Robbins | 36 |
| Bass in a barbershop quartet, e.g. | 34 |
| Bass in Haydn's "The Creation" | 44 |
| Bass player that hates dog collars? | 35 |
| Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre, e.g. | 34 |
| Bassett of ''Waiting to Exhale'' | 48 |
| Bassett of "Malcolm X" | 32 |
| Bassett of "Waiting to Exhale" | 40 |
| Bassist Kirkwood of Meat Puppets | 32 |
| Bassist on Young MC's "Bust a Move" | 49 |
| Bassist Phil of the Grateful Dead | 33 |
| Bassist Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne | 41 |
| Bassman Kinchla of Blues Traveler | 33 |
| Basso in "Der Rosenkavalier" | 38 |
| Basso Pinza of "South Pacific" | 40 |
| Basso role in "Der Rosenkavalier" | 43 |
| Bastion with billions in bullion, briefly | 41 |
| Bat from either side of the plate | 33 |
| Bat Masterson and a boy band singer | 35 |
| Bat one's eyelashes, perhaps | 32 |
| Batch baked by the Queen of Hearts | 34 |
| Bateman of "Family Ties" | 34 |
| Bates of ''Psycho'' | 35 |
| Bates ___ ("Psycho" locale) | 37 |
| Bates' horror-filled stopover | 33 |
| Bates's "Misery" co-star | 38 |
| Bates's "Misery" costar | 37 |
| Batesville, Ark.'s ___ College | 34 |
| Bath for cleaning fleeces before shearing [2003] | 48 |
| Bath's first name in a crank call | 37 |
| Bathes in dichromate of potassium | 33 |
| Bathing beauty at a swimming facility? | 38 |
| Bathing resort on the Lahn River | 32 |
| Bathing suit that covers the navel | 34 |
| Bathroom fixture sales representative? | 38 |
| Bathroom fixture that's only 39 inches tall? | 48 |
| Bathroom floor installers, often | 32 |
| Bathroom floor material, perhaps | 32 |
| Bathroom item on a honey-do list | 32 |
| Bathrooms at a Long Island university? | 38 |
| Bathrooms brimming with lawn clippings? | 39 |
| Bathrooms near some shaving detritus? | 37 |
| Bathtub ring with no discernible cause? | 39 |