| Bird's name in Disney's ''Peter and the Wolf'' | 70 |
| Buffoon in modern-day slang, and word hidden five times in this puzzle | 70 |
| Billboard once named her "Female Entertainer of the Century" | 70 |
| Baseball Hall of Famer Frankie nicknamed "The Fordham Flash" | 70 |
| Best Actress Oscar nominee for her role in "Cimarron" (1931) | 70 |
| Beatles flip side about how Whistler got the idea to paint his mother? | 70 |
| Boxer Willard defeated by Jack Dempsey for the world heavyweight title | 70 |
| BBC AMERICA rebranded to cover a Jewish leader in the center of Islam? | 70 |
| Bartók's "Sonata for Solo Violin" was written for him | 70 |
| Belief that rulers should be chosen based on skills rather than wealth | 70 |
| Browning opening line preceding "Now that April's there" | 70 |
| Bing Crosby hit in which "your branches speak to me of love" | 70 |
| Breakfast cereal with a propeller-headed alien on the front of the box | 70 |
| Brand with the challenge to lose one inch from your waist in two weeks | 70 |
| Big ___ (person who takes a date to a fast-food restaurant, jocularly) | 70 |
| Blind prophet who underwent a seven-year sex change in Greek mythology | 70 |
| Bills depicting Trumbull's "Declaration of Independence" | 70 |
| Baldwin who has hosted "S.N.L." more times than anyone else | 69 |
| Bedelia whose name (appropriately) means "to cause trouble" | 69 |
| Brashares who wrote "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" | 69 |
| Beethoven's last piano concerto, familiarly, with "the" | 69 |
| Byrne's collaborator on "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" | 69 |
| Brian who admitted to composing the Windows 95 startup music on a Mac | 69 |
| Brian Eno "Small Craft on a Milk Sea" collaborator Abrahams | 69 |
| Broadway musical with the song "We Need a Little Christmas" | 69 |
| Brit's honorary title won by J. K. Rowling and Hugh Laurie: Abbr. | 69 |
| Barrymore's villain role in "It's a Wonderful Life" | 69 |
| Beatles girl "filling in a ticket in her little white book" | 69 |
| Board game whose ads featured the line "Pretty sneaky, sis" | 69 |
| Band with the 2009 album "Bitte Orca," with "The" | 69 |
| Bit of nonsense famously replacing "strangers in the night" | 69 |
| Best Supporting Actress winner for "The Accidental Tourist" | 69 |
| British ship that shares its name with a New York "village" | 69 |
| Band with the 1982 platinum album "The Number of the Beast" | 69 |
| Ballplayer's home renovation advice about the bare hallway floor? | 69 |
| Best-selling computer game from the early 2000s, with "The" | 69 |
| Beach Boys hit with the line "the first mate, he got drunk" | 69 |
| Band that famously remade "Satisfaction" on its first album | 69 |
| Book series featuring identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield | 69 |
| Besides Derek Jeter, only Major Leaguer whose 3,000th hit was a homer | 69 |
| Brandon and Brenda's last name on "Beverly Hills 90210" | 69 |
| Bottom's other form in "A Midsummer's Night Dream" | 68 |
| Blue liqueur, or the island where the fruit it's made from grows | 68 |
| Bombeck who said, "God created man, but I could do better" | 68 |
| Ballplayer Banks with the catchphrase "Let's play two" | 68 |
| Bears owner/coach who won eight NFL titles in four different decades | 68 |
| Big hit for the club members, and what might elicit the shaded words | 68 |
| Blockbuster that takes place in the fictional vacation town of Amity | 68 |
| Betty, Bobbie and Billie followers on "Petticoat Junction" | 68 |
| Boone with the kitschy "In a Metal Mood: No More Nice Guy" | 68 |
| Bryson who paired with Céline on "Beauty and the Beast" | 68 |
| Ballplayer with the autobiography "My Prison Without Bars" | 68 |
| Bruce Willis trilogy with a "4.0" scheduled for late 2006 | 68 |
| Beck "See me comin' to town with my soul" song (hyph.) | 68 |
| Baby ___ (girl involved in the first heart transplant from a baboon) | 68 |
| Brendan Fraser movie that made many Top 10 Worst of 2010 movie lists | 68 |
| Best way to deal with life's frustrations, to a badminton coach? | 68 |
| Barbra Streisand belter about "The Persistence of Memory"? | 68 |
| Billy Dee Williams's role in the "Star Wars" franchise | 68 |
| Brokerage instruction to buy or sell only a specific amount or price | 68 |
| Billy Joel song used as the original "Bosom Buddies" theme | 68 |
| Band with "This Too Shall Pass" and other viral video hits | 68 |
| Box marked "M," "F", or "Yes, please!" | 68 |
| Brandon ___ (Hilary Swank's "Boys Don't Cry" role) | 68 |
| Breaker of the 400-meter freestyle world record at the 2000 Olympics | 68 |
| Band who created the soundtrack for "The Virgin Suicides" | 67 |
| Beginning for ''carte'' or ''king'' | 67 |
| Bachelor in Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" | 67 |
| Boxer who won a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Games as Cassius Clay | 67 |
| Blu-ray with the featurette "The Plane Behind the Legend" | 67 |
| Bureau that added "Explosives" to its name in 2002: abbr. | 67 |
| Bill mentioned often in the course of 2008 presidential mudslinging | 67 |
| Baseball stat originally called "Heydler's statistic" | 67 |
| Behave like Cab Calloway's "red hot hoochie coocher"? | 67 |
| Basketball championship of which St. John's has won the most, 6 | 67 |
| Biblical character whose act of coitus interruptus led to his death | 67 |
| Band whose "Man on the Moon" is a tribute to Andy Kaufman | 67 |
| Brand name derived from the French for "without caffeine" | 67 |
| Billionaire Khashoggi whose luxury yacht was bought by Donald Trump | 67 |
| British philosopher who wrote "Language, Truth and Logic" | 67 |
| Bygone TV series about a pair of jet-setting, crime-solving spouses | 67 |
| Beatles flip side about Wagner's first rule of opera-composing? | 67 |
| Big band leader, born 2/29/1904, whose brother Tommy also led bands | 67 |
| Bartender's home renovation advice about the tiny kitchen sink? | 67 |
| Bit of candy that "melts in your mouth, not in your hand" | 67 |
| Basketball Hall-of-Famer Dick, who played for the 1950's Knicks | 67 |
| Beethoven work completed the same year as the "Moonlight" | 67 |
| Blow up two green balloons almost all the way...and you're done | 67 |
| Bobby Vee hit with the line "I come bouncing back to you" | 67 |
| Band with the triple-platinum album "Love at First Sting" | 67 |
| Bugs Bunny's "Bedevilled Rabbit" adversary, for short | 67 |
| Brand of veggie burgers in a bun: soulless way to solicit votes (8) | 67 |
| Burt and Kirk's love interest in "Seven Days in May" | 66 |
| Bronco placekicker Jason, author of "Monday Night Jihad" | 66 |
| Beverage that comes in Boppin' Strawberry and Orange Lavaburst | 66 |
| Beginning of a George Harrison song title on "Let It Be" | 66 |
| Brother of Ethan Allen who was a member of the Green Mountain Boys | 66 |
| Barker of the Cleveland Indians who pitched a perfect game in 1981 | 66 |
| Bandleader who had a hit with "Unchained Melody" in 1955 | 66 |
| Beatles title words following "Speaking words of wisdom" | 66 |