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| Best-liked: Abbr. | 17 |
| Best-looking rear ends? | 23 |
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| Best-of-all ending | 18 |
| Best-of-seven mid-October baseball playoff round that doesn't use the designated hitter rule: Abbr. | 103 |
| Best-of-seven qualifier for the World Series: abbr. | 51 |
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| Best-rated | 10 |
| Best-rated fleabag? | 19 |
| Best-selected | 13 |
| Best-seller | 11 |
| Best-seller about rabbits | 25 |
| Best-seller category | 20 |
| Best-seller list | 16 |
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| Best-seller subtitled "The Saga of an American Family" | 64 |
| Best-sellers at the garden center? | 34 |
| Best-selling | 12 |
| Best-selling "Workout" video maker | 44 |
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| Best-selling 1974 detective novel | 33 |
| Best-selling 1993 pop album | 27 |
| Best-selling 2003 Alice Sebold novel | 36 |
| Best-selling 2003 Khaled Hosseini novel, with "The" | 61 |
| Best-selling album of 2001 | 26 |
| Best-selling Apple app | 22 |
| Best-selling artist of the 2000s | 32 |
| Best-selling author Bret Easton ___ | 35 |
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| Best-selling author Carr | 24 |
| Best-selling author D'Souza | 31 |
| Best-selling author Larson | 26 |
| Best-selling author May | 23 |
| Best-selling author of '76 | 30 |
| Best-selling author of "Debt of Honor" | 48 |
| Best-selling author of "Good as Gold," 1979 | 53 |
| Best-selling author of "Personal Injuries" | 52 |
| Best-selling author of "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" | 76 |
| Best-selling author of "The Taking" | 45 |
| Best-selling author of "Up the Organization" | 54 |
| Best-selling author of 1978 | 27 |
| Best-selling author on income taxes | 35 |
| Best-selling author on salesmanship | 35 |
| Best-selling author Roberts | 27 |
| Best-selling author Tami | 24 |
| Best-selling author Umberto | 27 |
| Best-selling author who once worked for Britain's MI6 | 57 |
| Best-selling author who served as a nurse in the Civil War | 58 |
| Best-selling author who wrote "I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation" | 102 |
| Best-selling author who wrote "Women Who Run With the Wolves" | 71 |
| Best-selling baseball equipment? | 32 |
| Best-selling beer in the U.S. since 2001 | 40 |
| Best-selling biography of 1934 | 30 |
| Best-selling book | 17 |
| Best-selling book of '96 | 28 |
| Best-selling book of 1960 | 25 |
| Best-selling bourbon | 20 |
| Best-selling Canadian beer in the world | 39 |
| Best-selling car in America, 1997-99 | 36 |
| Best-selling children's author who became a baronet | 55 |
| Best-selling children's book series by Walter Wick and Jean Marzollo | 72 |
| Best-selling Chinese author | 27 |
| Best-selling Chinese author Dun | 31 |
| Best-selling computer game | 26 |
| Best-selling computer game from the early 2000s, with "The" | 69 |
| Best-selling computer game of the 1990s | 39 |
| Best-selling Cook book | 22 |
| Best-selling cookie | 19 |
| Best-selling cookie in America | 30 |
| Best-selling cookies | 20 |
| Best-selling David Guterson novel made into a 1999 film | 55 |
| Best-selling diet tract | 23 |
| Best-selling doll | 17 |
| Best-selling drink | 18 |