| Beatles "I thought I ___ you, what did I know?" | 57 |
| Beast hunted by Hemingway in "Green Hills of Africa" | 62 |
| Bears owner/coach who won eight NFL titles in four different decades | 68 |
| Bearing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled | 55 |
| Bear ___ (bank that collapsed in the 2008 global financial crisis) | 66 |
| Bean who played Boromir in "The Lord of the Rings" films | 66 |
| Bean named for the Italian word for "bean" | 52 |
| Bean mentioned in "The Silence of the Lambs" | 54 |
| Beach town that's home to Cape Cod's oldest lighthouse | 62 |
| Beach resort at the entrance to the Lagoon of Venice | 52 |
| Beach Boys hit with the line "the first mate, he got drunk" | 69 |
| Beach Boys album with the hit "Wouldn't It Be Nice" | 65 |
| Be overly optimistic with one's archeological work | 54 |
| Be on the federal payroll while collecting a pension | 52 |
| Be content (with ''one's laurels'') | 55 |
| Be a wizard or an elf, say, in Dungeons & Dragons | 53 |
| Bayes who sang and co-wrote "Shine On, Harvest Moon" | 62 |
| Bay on which a chipmaker's headquarters are located? | 56 |
| Bay City Rollers' 1978 hit, "The ___ Feel Tonight" | 64 |
| Battleship coordinate at the middle right of the board | 54 |
| Battle of ___ Bay (WWII conflict off the coast of New Guinea) | 61 |
| Battle of WilsonÂ’s ___ (early Civil War engagement) | 55 |
| Battle depicted in ''The Last Command'' | 55 |
| Batting-practice contraptions (this involves two theme words) | 61 |
| Batman villain who makes decisions by flipping a coin | 53 |
| Bathroom vessels for those who are handy around the house | 57 |
| Bat Guano in "Dr. Strangelove," for one: Abbr. | 56 |
| Bassist on the album "Girls, Girls, Girls" | 52 |
| Bassett of "What's Love Got to Do With It?" | 57 |
| Bassanio's wife in "The Merchant of Venice" | 57 |
| Basketballer whose home court is at Bankers Life Fieldhouse | 59 |
| Basketballer nicknamed "Dennis the Menace" | 52 |
| Basketball's Archibald injured the Dalai Lama, palindromically | 66 |
| Basketball violation or, with a comma, "repulsive" | 60 |
| Basketball team whose members are always summarizing things? | 60 |
| Basketball team slated to move to Brooklyn, eventually | 54 |
| Basketball star nicknamed "The Big Baryshnikov" | 57 |
| Basketball scoring attempts that are difficult to block | 55 |
| Basketball player Kevin who won two Sixth Man Awards in the 1980s | 65 |
| Basketball phenom Bias who OD'ed two days after being drafted | 65 |
| Basketball Hall-of-Famer Dick, who played for the 1950's Knicks | 67 |
| Basketball Hall of Fame coach known as "Big Bear" | 59 |
| Basketball coach Winter who pioneered the triangle offense | 58 |
| Basketball championship of which St. John's has won the most, 6 | 67 |
| Basis of Tony Martin's "There's No Tomorrow" | 62 |
| Basis of NBC's 1990s "New to You" campaign | 56 |
| Basis for the first commercially successful video game | 54 |
| Basis for Elvis' ''It's Now or Never'' | 62 |
| Basil-based sauce (though you can also use peas or garlic scapes) | 65 |
| Basic sci. course dubbed "rocks for jocks" | 52 |
| Basic harmonic structure at the end of "Hey Jude" | 59 |
| Basher ___, one of the eleven in "Ocean's Eleven" | 63 |
| Basher ___ (Don Cheadle's "Ocean's Twelve" role) | 66 |
| Basher Tarr portrayer in "Ocean's Eleven" | 55 |
| Baseballer with a "W" on his cap, for short | 53 |
| Baseball's quarter-billion dollar man, for short | 52 |
| Baseball's Piniella, nicknamed "Sweet ___" | 56 |
| Baseball's Jackson, a.k.a. "Mr. October" | 54 |
| Baseball's Eddie, 1952 All-Star for the Senators | 52 |
| Baseball's Eddie who was nicknamed "The Walking Man" | 66 |
| Baseball's Durocher ... or his astrological sign | 52 |
| Baseball's David, nicknamed "Big Papi" | 52 |
| Baseball's 'Mr. Cub' adds to his savings? | 53 |
| Baseball's ''Walking Man'' Eddie | 52 |
| Baseball term that defines the threshold of incompetent hitting | 63 |
| Baseball teams expand them to 40 players in September | 53 |
| Baseball team that offered the first million-dollar-a-year deal | 63 |
| Baseball team that changed its name during the McCarthy era | 59 |
| Baseball stats usually rounded to two decimal places, for short | 63 |
| Baseball stat originally called "Heydler's statistic" | 67 |
| Baseball manager Joe who coauthored "The Yankee Years" | 64 |
| Baseball manager Joe who authored "The Yankee Years" | 62 |
| Baseball legend Mel, ''The Little Giant'' | 57 |
| Baseball hit where the runner finishes at the hot corner | 56 |
| Baseball hero called "Gibraltar in cleats" | 52 |
| Baseball Hall-of-Famer who batted left and threw right | 54 |
| Baseball Hall-of-Famer Wagner, one of the first five inductees | 62 |
| Baseball hall-of-famer nicknamed "Country" | 52 |
| Baseball Hall of Famer who was a 1967 Rookie of the Year | 56 |
| Baseball great known as "The Georgia Peach" | 53 |
| Baseball GM Billy featured in the book "Moneyball" | 60 |
| Baseball family dynasty that ended when Moises retired | 54 |
| Baseball division won by the same team for the past nine years | 62 |
| Baseball commissioner who introduced interleague play | 53 |
| Baseball commissioner who helped establish interleague play | 59 |
| Baseball commissioner under whom interleague play became a reality | 66 |
| Baseball All-Star's nickname ... or a popular food product | 62 |
| Baseball All-Star who was also a football Pro Bowler | 52 |
| Baseball advice, "___ where they ain't" | 53 |
| Base off the coast of Brest for France's nuclear submarines | 63 |
| Baryshnikov's co-star in "White Nights" | 53 |
| Bartender's home renovation advice about the tiny kitchen sink? | 67 |
| Bartender's denial, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 61 |
| Bartender in "Gunsmoke" or "Cheers" | 55 |
| Barrymore's villain role in "It's a Wonderful Life" | 69 |
| Barry's "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" costar | 60 |
| Barry who played Lt. Gerard on TV's "The Fugitive" | 64 |
| Barry White lyric "Because you ___ my mind" | 53 |
| Barry B. Longyear novella that won Hugo and Nebula awards | 57 |
| Barrie's portrayer in "Finding Neverland" | 55 |