| Backup key? | 11 |
| Backup means for gaining entrance | 33 |
| Backup medium | 13 |
| Backup medium for a PC | 22 |
| Backup men for Gladys Knight | 28 |
| Backup option | 13 |
| Backup org. for gyrenes | 23 |
| Backup plan lead-in | 19 |
| Backup plans, e.g. | 18 |
| Backup player's backup | 26 |
| Backup point guard? | 19 |
| Backup power supply | 19 |
| Backup preventer | 16 |
| Backup procedure | 16 |
| Backup provider? | 16 |
| Backup rockets | 14 |
| Backup rockets? | 15 |
| Backup singer for Gladys Knight | 31 |
| Backup singer for Smokey Robinson | 33 |
| Backup singer on "Midnight Train to Georgia" | 54 |
| Backup singer with Smokey Robinson | 34 |
| Backup singer's syllable | 28 |
| Backup singers in a 1960's R & B group | 46 |
| Backup singers, often | 21 |
| Backup squad | 12 |
| Backup strategy | 15 |
| Backup supplies | 15 |
| Backup to a D.A. | 16 |
| Backup to a prez | 16 |
| Backup troops | 13 |
| Backup with bucks | 17 |
| Backup, briefly | 15 |
| Backup-beating brand | 20 |
| Backup-disc contents | 20 |
| Backup: Abbr. | 13 |
| Backups | 7 |
| Backups for backups | 19 |
| Backus and Thorpe | 17 |
| Backus or Bowie | 15 |
| Backus was his voice in '60s TV | 36 |
| Backus was his voice in '60s TV | 35 |
| Backus was his voice in 60's TV | 35 |
| Backward | 8 |
| Backward concerns? | 18 |
| Backward flow | 13 |
| Backward Ira | 12 |
| Backward Lara | 13 |
| Backward movement | 17 |
| BACKWARD NATION | 15 |
| Backward note | 13 |
| Backward ones | 13 |
| Backward or upward: Prefix | 26 |
| Backward passes | 15 |
| Backward pins | 13 |
| Backward poem from Tokyo? | 25 |
| Backward seines | 15 |
| Backward slag | 13 |
| Backward somersault | 19 |
| Backward stag | 13 |
| Backward star | 13 |
| Backward star? | 14 |
| Backward, at sea | 16 |
| Backward, nautically | 20 |
| Backward, upon the waters | 25 |
| Backward-looking | 16 |
| Backward-looking, in fashion | 28 |
| Backward-moving basketball shot | 31 |
| Backward: Comb. form | 20 |
| Backward: Fr. | 13 |
| Backward: Prefix | 16 |
| Backward: Sp. | 13 |
| Backward; inverse | 17 |
| Backwards | 9 |
| Backwards and forwards | 22 |
| Backwards brew | 14 |
| Backwards duplicate | 19 |
| Backwards, and key to this puzzle's theme | 45 |
| Backwards, to Barnacle Bill | 27 |
| Backwards-arrow command | 23 |
| Backwards-looking | 17 |
| Backwash creator | 16 |
| Backwash creators | 17 |
| Backwash of an aircraft | 23 |
| Backwash producer | 17 |
| Backwater | 9 |
| Backwater cause, perhaps | 24 |
| Backwater college | 17 |
| Backwater, in Australia | 23 |
| Backwater, with "the" | 31 |
| Backwatered, in a scull | 23 |
| Backwood's "once more" | 36 |
| Backwoods | 9 |
| Backwoods 'uh-uh' | 25 |
| Backwoods "anti" | 26 |
| Backwoods "opposed to" | 32 |
| Backwoods "uh-uh" | 27 |
| Backwoods address abbr. | 23 |
| Backwoods affirmative | 21 |
| Backwoods agreement | 19 |
| Backwoods assent | 16 |