| Better Than ___ (band with the 1995 hit "Good") | 57 |
| Bette Midler's "Scenes From a Mall" costar | 56 |
| Bette Midler's "Parental Guidance" costar | 55 |
| Bette Midler film loosely based on Janis Joplin's life | 58 |
| Bette Davis role in ''Pocketful of Miracles'' | 61 |
| Bet that involves picking the top two finishers in order | 56 |
| BET Hip Hop Awards "Rookie of the Year" winner ___ Lo | 63 |
| Bestseller subtitled "The Owner's Manual" | 55 |
| Best-selling Hasbro toy introduced in the 1960's | 52 |
| Best-selling David Guterson novel made into a 1999 film | 55 |
| Best-selling computer game from the early 2000s, with "The" | 69 |
| Best-selling children's author who became a baronet | 55 |
| Best-selling author who served as a nurse in the Civil War | 58 |
| Best-selling author who once worked for Britain's MI6 | 57 |
| Best-selling author of "Up the Organization" | 54 |
| Best-selling author of "Personal Injuries" | 52 |
| Best-selling author of "Good as Gold," 1979 | 53 |
| Best-selling 2003 Khaled Hosseini novel, with "The" | 61 |
| Best-seller subtitled "The Saga of an American Family" | 64 |
| Best way to deal with life's frustrations, to a badminton coach? | 68 |
| Best Supporting Actress winner for "The Accidental Tourist" | 69 |
| Best Supporting Actress nominee for "Five Easy Pieces" | 64 |
| Best Supporting Actress for "Cactus Flower," 1969 | 59 |
| Best Supporting Actress for "Cactus Flower" | 53 |
| Best supporting actress for ''Girl, Interrupted'' | 65 |
| Best Supporting Actor winner for "Ed Wood" | 52 |
| Best Supporting Actor nominee for "On the Waterfront" | 63 |
| Best Supporting Actor for his role as Sergeant Foley | 52 |
| Best Supporting Actor for 1958's "The Big Country" | 64 |
| Best Supporting Actor for "The Fortune Cookie," 1966 | 62 |
| Best Supporting Actor for "Hannah and Her Sisters" | 60 |
| Best Supporting Actor between Washington and Palance | 52 |
| Best single of 1997, in the Village Voice critics' poll | 59 |
| Best recording of the "Hungarian Rhapsodies"? | 55 |
| Best Play the year "The Lion King" won Best Musical | 61 |
| Best Picture winner tied with "Gigi" for shortest title | 65 |
| Best Picture of 1958, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 59 |
| Best Picture nominee that lost to "My Fair Lady" | 58 |
| Best Picture also-ran to "Kramer vs. Kramer" | 54 |
| Best Original ___ (award for the film with [circled letters]) | 61 |
| Best Original Screenplay winner for "American Beauty" | 63 |
| Best New Artist Grammy winner two years after Sheryl | 52 |
| Best New Age Album Grammy winner for "Shepherd Moons" | 63 |
| Best New Age Album Grammy winner for "Amarantine" | 59 |
| Best Musical winner after "Sunset Boulevard" | 54 |
| Best Musical the year before "42nd Street" | 52 |
| Best dramatic actress Tony winner of 1948, 1978 and 1983 | 56 |
| Best documentary short subject nominee "___ Hands" | 60 |
| Best Director of 1997, and Best Director nominee of 2009 | 56 |
| Best Director nominee for "A Room With a View" (14) | 61 |
| Best Director between Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese | 56 |
| Best Buy buys [SEE NOTE LINK ABOVE ON HOW TO SOLVE THIS PUZZLE] | 63 |
| Best Actress winner for "The Great Ziegfeld," 1936 | 60 |
| Best Actress winner for "Million Dollar Baby" | 55 |
| Best Actress Oscar-winner for "It Happened One Night" | 63 |
| Best Actress Oscar winner for "The Reader" | 52 |
| Best Actress Oscar nominee for "The Collector" | 56 |
| Best Actress nominee for "Ordinary People" | 52 |
| Best Actress nominee for "Ghana With the Wind"? | 57 |
| Best Actress nominee for "Catch Me if You Kenya"? | 59 |
| Best Actor winner for "Save the Tiger" (1973) | 55 |
| Best Actor Tony winner for "Mark Twain Tonight!" | 58 |
| Best Actor nominee for "American History X" | 53 |
| Best Actor for "The Story of Louis Pasteur" | 53 |
| Besmirched or, alternately, dressy item for the beach? | 54 |
| Besides Derek Jeter, only Major Leaguer whose 3,000th hit was a homer | 69 |
| Bertrand Russell's "Why I Am ___ Christian" | 57 |
| Bert who sang "If I Were King of the Forest" | 54 |
| Bert who played Zeke in "The Wizard of Oz" | 52 |
| Berra who said, "It gets late early out there" | 56 |
| Berra who said "a nickel ain't worth a dime anymore" | 66 |
| Bernstein's ''Trouble in Tahiti,'' e.g. | 59 |
| Bernstein of "All the President's Men" | 52 |
| Bernie __, subject of the 2011 book "The Wizard of Lies" | 66 |
| Bernie Williams or Derek Jeter, colloquially, in the eyes of fans | 65 |
| Bernardo's girlfriend in "West Side Story" | 56 |
| Bernard the mouse in ''The Rescuers'' | 53 |
| Bernadette of Broadway's "Into the Woods" | 55 |
| Bermuda ___ (extinct bird in "Breakfast of Champions") | 64 |
| Berlioz's "Les Nuits d'Été," e.g. | 58 |
| Berlioz's ''Les nuits d'___'' | 53 |
| Berlioz opera based on Virgil's "Aeneid" | 54 |
| Berlin's "___ This a Lovely Day . . . " | 53 |
| Berlin's "You Can't Get a Man with ___" | 57 |
| Berlin who wrote "The Puzzling World of Winston Breen" | 64 |
| Beret-topped "What's Happening!" character | 56 |
| Benjamin Moore paint color similar to Graham Cracker | 52 |
| Benjamin Harrison's vice president, ___ P. Morton | 53 |
| Benjamin Harrison was the last President to have one | 52 |
| Benjamin Harrison was the last president to feature one | 55 |
| Benjamin Franklin's "The Morals of ___" | 53 |
| Benjamin Britten's "Paul Bunyan," e.g. | 52 |
| Benefit program giving workers a chance to buy co. shares | 57 |
| Benefit program allowing workers to acquire a stake in their co. | 64 |
| Benefit of an unsuccessful stock trade, at filing time | 54 |
| Beneficiary of a fraternity's "legacy system" | 59 |
| Beneficiaries of Bill BucknerÂ’s famous World Series error | 61 |
| Beneficiaries of an annual Willie Nelson charity concert | 56 |
| Benefactor of South Africa's Leadership Academy for Girls | 61 |
| Benefactor of Central Park's Strawberry Fields memorial | 59 |