| Ben Bernanke's group, with "the" | 46 |
| Ben E. King's first top ten song | 36 |
| Ben Folds Five "Whatever and Ever ___" | 48 |
| Ben Folds Five song about the military? | 39 |
| Ben Franklin's religious belief | 35 |
| Ben Franklin, famously, in an electrical storm | 46 |
| Ben Franklin, John Hancock, etc. | 32 |
| Ben Gurion International carrier | 32 |
| Ben Harper "The Will to Live" opener | 46 |
| Ben Harper "With My Own ___ Hands" | 44 |
| Ben Harper: "___ My Kisses" | 37 |
| Ben Jonson vis-a-vis Gabriel Spenser, e.g. | 42 |
| Ben Jonson wrote one "to Himself" | 43 |
| Ben Jonson's "Song: To ___" | 41 |
| Ben Kingsley film about ex-cons and mobsters | 44 |
| Ben of "All That Jazz" | 32 |
| Ben of "Buffalo '66" | 34 |
| Ben of "Run for Your Life" | 36 |
| Ben of "Treasure Island" | 34 |
| Ben player on "Bonanza" | 33 |
| Ben Stiller bomb "___ Heist" | 38 |
| Ben Stiller in "Madagascar" | 37 |
| Ben Stiller, in "Madagascar" | 38 |
| Ben Turpin's crossed features | 33 |
| Ben Zimmer's newspaper, briefly | 35 |
| Ben ___ (1886 Kentucky Derby winner) | 36 |
| Ben ___, "Treasure Island" pirate | 43 |
| Ben ___, Great Britain's highest peak | 41 |
| Ben's "Meet the Fockers" costar | 45 |
| Ben's "Meet the Parents" girlfriend | 49 |
| Ben's "Paycheck" co-star | 38 |
| Ben's Federal Reserve predecessor | 37 |
| Ben's oldest son on "Bonanza" | 43 |
| Ben's predecessor as Fed head | 33 |
| Ben's predecessor at the Fed | 32 |
| Ben's role in "Pearl Harbor" | 42 |
| Ben-Gurion International Airport city | 37 |
| Ben-Hur portrayer Novarro (1925) | 32 |
| Ben-Hur's mother becomes one | 32 |
| Benaderet of "Petticoat Junction" | 43 |
| Benaderet of "The Beverly Hillbillies" | 48 |
| Benazir Bhutto or Stephen Hawking, e.g. | 39 |
| Benét's "___ to Walt Whitman" | 46 |
| Bench a cab company softball team player? | 41 |
| Bench pressed on the witness stand? | 35 |
| Bench presser's muscle, briefly | 35 |
| Bench presser's target muscle, briefly | 42 |
| Bench presser's target, familiarly | 38 |
| Benches for the church softball team? | 37 |
| Benchley best-seller (with "The") | 43 |
| Benchley best-seller with "The" | 41 |
| Benchley novel "The __" | 33 |
| Benchley's "Of ___ Things" | 40 |
| Benchley's "The ___" | 34 |
| Benchmark for a golf-playing clone? | 35 |
| Bend a senator's ear, perhaps | 33 |
| Bender for one hoping to get married? | 37 |
| Bender one might go on before getting engaged? | 46 |
| Bender's foil on "Futurama" | 41 |
| Bendix early TV show, with "The" | 42 |
| Beneath an island in a Scottish body of water? | 46 |
| Beneath the Baltic's surface | 32 |
| Beneath the Laptev's surface | 32 |
| Benedict Arnold's contact man | 33 |
| Benedict of "The A-Team" | 34 |
| Benedict ___ (pope beginning in 2005) | 37 |
| Benedictine and Franciscan communities | 38 |
| Benedictine monk who founded Scholasticism | 42 |
| Beneficial compost pile residents | 33 |
| Beneficiary of a 1971 Harrison/Shankar concert | 46 |
| Beneficiary of a rescue, it is hoped | 36 |
| Beneficiary of Hera's protection | 36 |
| Beneficiary of nepotism, briefly | 32 |
| Beneficiary's brother, perhaps | 34 |
| Benefit from a miraculous healing ceremony, say | 47 |
| Benefit of singing in the shower | 32 |
| Benefit of some out-of-state mail-order purchases | 49 |
| Benefiting from benzoyl peroxide | 32 |
| Benefits of wealth, in economics | 32 |
| Benes in ''Seinfeld'' | 37 |
| Benevolent & Protective Order | 33 |
| Benevolent & Protective Order of ___ | 40 |
| Benevolent and Protective Order group | 37 |
| Benevolent and protective order member | 38 |
| Benevolent and Protective Order members | 39 |
| Benevolent fraternal soc. since 1819 | 36 |
| Bengal cat captured with rope snares? | 37 |
| Benigni beat him out for Best Actor of 1998 | 43 |
| Benigno ___, president of the Philippines | 41 |
| Bening of ''American Beauty'' | 45 |
| Bening of 'American Beauty' | 35 |
| Bening of "American Beauty" | 37 |
| Bening of "Being Julia" | 33 |
| Bening of "The Grifters" | 34 |
| Benjamin Bradlee, during the Watergate era | 42 |
| Benjamin Diamond "Little ___" | 39 |
| Benjamin Disraeli, to Beaconsfield | 34 |
| Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, e.g. | 44 |
| Benjamin Franklin experiment prop | 33 |
| Benjamin Franklin Pierce portrayer | 34 |