| Be a poor public speaker | 24 |
| Be a poor winner, perhaps | 25 |
| Be a positive, on balance | 25 |
| Be a productive chicken | 23 |
| Be a royal hairstylist? | 23 |
| Be a sadistic masseuse? | 23 |
| Be a schoolhouse thief | 22 |
| Be a sore loser, in a way | 25 |
| Be a sore loser, maybe | 22 |
| Be a successful climber | 23 |
| Be a successful pitcher | 23 |
| Be a successful pitcher? | 24 |
| Be a thief in the dugout? | 25 |
| Be a thief in the outfield? | 27 |
| Be a thief, in the Bible | 24 |
| Be a thorn in the side of | 25 |
| Be a verbal rubber stamp | 24 |
| Be a very fast learner? | 23 |
| Be a victorious emperor? | 24 |
| Be a willing participant? | 25 |
| Be a ___ (finish second) | 24 |
| Be abandoned in trouble | 23 |
| Be able to buy some wheels | 26 |
| Be acquainted with Frosty? | 26 |
| Be acquainted with Vanna? | 25 |
| Be active on Wall Street | 24 |
| Be affected by gravity | 22 |
| Be aggressive with, dog-style | 29 |
| Be all thumbs as a writer? | 26 |
| Be amorous with, in Britain | 27 |
| Be an accessory to the crime | 28 |
| Be an agent for, in brief | 25 |
| Be an excellent student | 23 |
| Be an inquisitive tutee | 23 |
| Be an optimistic borrower | 25 |
| Be an unhelpful interrogee | 26 |
| Be an unsuccessful gambler | 26 |
| Be an unwitting joke victim | 27 |
| Be and B's differ by one | 28 |
| Be armed with a six-shooter | 27 |
| Be at a bon voyage party for | 28 |
| Be at a loss for words? | 23 |
| Be at the head of the class | 27 |
| Be authorized to proceed | 24 |
| Be awesome, so to speak | 23 |
| Be behind a lawbreaker | 22 |
| Be belligerent, verbally | 24 |
| Be bratty with, in a way | 24 |
| Be careless or unguarded | 24 |
| Be careless with a bucket | 25 |
| Be carried in by the tide | 25 |
| Be carried on a breeze | 22 |
| Be caught by a polygraph | 24 |
| Be cautious about calories | 26 |
| Be champ without a knockout | 27 |
| Be charmed and then some | 24 |
| Be chromatically incompatible | 29 |
| Be civilly disobedient | 22 |
| Be clearly flabbergasted | 24 |
| Be closer to the top than | 25 |
| Be completely clueless | 22 |
| Be completely self-evident | 26 |
| Be concerned, slangily | 22 |
| Be conspicuous, in a way | 24 |
| Be content with where one is | 28 |
| Be crazy about something | 24 |
| Be crude with consommé | 25 |
| Be deceitful, in a way | 22 |
| Be deliberately kept waiting | 28 |
| Be delirious with frustration | 29 |
| Be dishonest with, in a way | 27 |
| Be disrespectful to, in a way | 29 |
| Be down with something | 22 |
| Be due a refund, perhaps | 24 |
| Be ecologically minded | 22 |
| Be enrolled in a college | 24 |
| Be entirely satisfactory | 24 |
| Be environmentally correct | 26 |
| Be equivalent, as results | 25 |
| Be ethically necessary | 22 |
| Be evenhanded to clients | 24 |
| Be everywhere, so to speak | 26 |
| Be extremely conspicuous | 24 |
| Be extremely cool, in slang | 27 |
| Be extremely expectant | 22 |
| Be fashionable, in a way | 24 |
| Be fast on one's feet | 25 |
| Be fed up to here (with) | 24 |
| Be fickle about, as hair | 24 |
| Be filled with longing | 22 |
| Be financially successful | 25 |
| Be first with the news | 22 |
| Be for, in an argument | 22 |
| Be forced to backpedal | 22 |
| Be fraught with meaning | 23 |
| Be fruitful and multiply | 24 |
| Be generous at the bar | 22 |
| Be green around the gills | 25 |
| Be guilty of fanfaronade | 24 |
| Be hanged after a crime | 23 |