| Beetles sacred to ancient Egyptians | 35 |
| Beetles, vis-à-vis insects | 33 |
| Befitting an emperor's residence | 36 |
| Before a big early 20th-cen. conflict | 37 |
| Before a winner can be determined | 33 |
| Before about 1984, pop-singerwise? | 34 |
| Before adjustments, as in statistics | 36 |
| Before analysis, after "a" | 36 |
| Before and after "Ã ," compared with | 48 |
| Before any of us can remember, perhaps | 38 |
| Before being used, as a bathroom? | 33 |
| Before computers, were there ...? | 34 |
| Before houses were weatherproofed? | 34 |
| Before long, after "in" | 33 |
| Before the court, in lawyerspeak | 32 |
| Before the present time, in the past | 36 |
| Before the present, before the present | 38 |
| Before the procedure, informally | 32 |
| Before the state's cut, as income | 37 |
| Before, before we used "before" | 41 |
| Before, either way you look at it | 33 |
| Before-the-fact, in combinations | 32 |
| Beg for tales that devilish rascals tell? (7) | 45 |
| Began a hole (with ''off'') | 43 |
| Began a hole (with "off") | 35 |
| Began a round, with "off" | 35 |
| Began golfing, with "up" | 34 |
| Beggar in the "Odyssey" | 33 |
| Beggar with skills in the kitchen? | 34 |
| Beggar's request at the lake? | 33 |
| Begian musical-instrument maker: 1791–1865 | 49 |
| Begin a night in the woods, perhaps | 35 |
| Begin business after a fire, say | 32 |
| Begin energetically, with "into" | 42 |
| Begin gazing at someone intently and harshly? | 45 |
| Begin operating or stop operating | 33 |
| Begin the ____ : '40s song | 32 |
| Begin to assume the lotus position | 34 |
| Begin to leave one's dreams behind? | 39 |
| Begin's Camp David counterpart | 34 |
| Begin, as a lauch sequence maybe | 32 |
| Beginner's course in demolition? | 36 |
| Beginner's supposed advantage | 33 |
| Beginners' rentals on snowy slopes | 38 |
| Beginning a downward spiral, in TV lingo | 40 |
| Beginning and ending of every classic? | 38 |
| Beginning drawing class, perhaps | 32 |
| Beginning for ''while'' | 39 |
| Beginning for "lateral" | 33 |
| Beginning for "normal" | 32 |
| Beginning for "puncture" | 34 |
| Beginning for "trooper" | 33 |
| Beginning for "while," at one time | 44 |
| Beginning for a form filler-outeR | 33 |
| Beginning for dollars or chemicals | 34 |
| Beginning for this puzzle's five endings | 44 |
| Beginning golfer's bane, perhaps | 36 |
| Beginning magician's arsenal? | 33 |
| Beginning of ''Nowhere Man'' | 44 |
| Beginning of "the season to be jolly" | 47 |
| Beginning of a 1969 Stevie Wonder title | 39 |
| Beginning of a Beatles title from The White Album | 49 |
| Beginning of a boss's request | 33 |
| Beginning of a chilly definition | 32 |
| Beginning of a conformist judge's axiom? | 44 |
| Beginning of a cowboy song refrain | 34 |
| Beginning of a freshman's lament | 36 |
| Beginning of a healthy observation | 34 |
| Beginning of a knock-knock answer | 33 |
| Beginning of a magician's incantation | 41 |
| Beginning of a miniseries, usually | 34 |
| Beginning of a natural progression | 34 |
| Beginning of a noted political admonition | 41 |
| Beginning of a process of elimination | 37 |
| Beginning of a quote by W. C. Fields | 36 |
| Beginning of a response to "Eh?" | 42 |
| Beginning of a slumber party challenge | 38 |
| Beginning of a solver's thought | 35 |
| Beginning of a tryster's message | 36 |
| Beginning of a W.C. Fields quote | 32 |
| Beginning of a witness' statement | 37 |
| Beginning of a young couple's lament | 40 |
| Beginning of all New York ZIP codes | 35 |
| Beginning of an auction definition | 34 |
| Beginning of an old cassette tape | 33 |
| Beginning of an ungrammatical quip | 34 |
| Beginning of Chrysler's biography? | 38 |
| Beginning of Juliet's balcony speech | 40 |
| Beginning of lunchtime, for most | 32 |
| Beginning of many "Jeopardy!" responses | 49 |
| Beginning of most New York ZIP codes | 36 |
| Beginning of Ontario's motto | 32 |
| Beginning of the end of a relationship? | 39 |
| Beginning of the Julian Calendar | 32 |
| Beginning of ___ (watershed moment) | 35 |
| Beginning or end of ''Spartacus'' | 49 |
| Beginning or end of "Athena" | 38 |
| Beginning or end of "Spartacus" | 41 |
| Beginning piano student's exercise | 38 |
| Beginning piano student's first scale? | 42 |