| Broadway hit with the song "I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight" | 78 |
| Broadway composer Matthew who was nominated for a Tony for "The Wedding Singer" | 89 |
| Broadcasting award inscribed with the words "The University of Georgia" | 81 |
| Britpop band with the 1998 compilation "Freshly Squeezed ... The Early Years" | 87 |
| Britney Spears hit with the lyric "A guy like you should wear a warning" | 82 |
| Britney "3" lyric "Living ___ is the new thing, yeah" | 73 |
| British sitcom with the theme song "This Wheel's on Fire," familiarly | 83 |
| British singer with the age-related albums "19" and "21" | 76 |
| British school from which Dominic West of "The Wire" graduated | 72 |
| British rocker with the 1979 #1 hit "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" | 73 |
| British regime in India that ends when "Midnight's Children" begins | 81 |
| British politician lands a devastating uppercut against Phoenix Suns' star Steve Nash? | 90 |
| British art-rock band with the 1975 #2 hit "I'm Not in Love" | 74 |
| British actor Robert, the original Colonel Pickering in "My Fair Lady" | 80 |
| Brit's ending to the song "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" | 74 |
| Brit with the B-side "Love Cheat" on his 1998 "Millennium" single | 85 |
| Brilliantly colored food fish that changes hues when removed from the water | 75 |
| Brightest star in Auriga, from the Latin for "little she-goat" | 72 |
| Briefly, one is aptly placed in the grid in the answer to each starred clue | 75 |
| Briefly, Bay Area forcE [avxwords.com has the edgiest weekly indie puzzles!] | 76 |
| Brief version of this puzzle's title hidden in eight long puzzle answers | 76 |
| Brief comment written by a teacher perhaps when grading an essay because they read a sentence like this one | 107 |
| Brian whose Orchestra had the 1998 hit "Jump Jive an' Wail" | 73 |
| Brian who said "I donÂ’t really have a musical identity outside of studios" | 88 |
| Brian who said "As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me" | 85 |
| Brian who is a rare example of someone whose prominence in crosswords is commensurate with his actual prominence | 112 |
| Brian who hasn't yet joined Neil Diamond in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | 78 |
| Brian McKnight/Vanessa Williams duet with the line "It conquers all" | 78 |
| Breath mint mentioned in "Ya Got Trouble" (from "The Music Man") | 84 |
| Breaks ... or an anagram of the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle | 74 |
| Breadless KFC sandwich on Newsweek's "13 Worst Trends of 2010" list | 81 |
| Bread with swirls stolen by Jerry in a classic "Seinfeld" episode | 75 |
| Brazilian midfielder on back-to-back World Cup winners in '58 and '62 | 77 |
| Brand with the old slogan "Stop making those 'no more coffee' resolutions" | 92 |
| Brand with the old slogan "It's blended, it's splendid" | 73 |
| Brand with the advertising slogan "Do You Pivot Every Morning?" | 73 |
| Brand whose logo has a man in a hard hat dangling from one of its letters | 73 |
| Brand whose limited edition wasabi ginger flavor had damn well better become permanent | 86 |
| Brand once advertised with the jingle "We wear short shorts ..." | 74 |
| Brand named after the pronunciation of its parent company's initials | 72 |
| Brand name that may be a portmanteau of "no" and "hair" | 75 |
| Brand at a checkout counter that's also the name of a Phoenix radio station | 79 |
| Branch of the govt. whose number of employees and annual budget are classified, aptly | 85 |
| Branch of geometry dealing with curved spaces (named after the German mathematician Bernhard) | 93 |
| Boy who pulls the sword from the stone in "The Sword in the Stone" | 76 |
| Boy band with the song "God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You" | 80 |
| Boy band that reunited in 2008 with the album "Summertime," for short | 79 |
| Boy band that appeared on the "New Kids on the Blecch" episode of "The Simpsons" | 100 |
| Boxing champ whose autobiography was titled "A Man Must Fight" | 72 |
| Boxing champ portrayed in the biopic "Somebody Up There Likes Me" | 75 |
| Boxer who told Will Smith "you ain't pretty enough to play me" | 76 |
| Boxer who boasted "If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize" | 100 |
| Boxer on the cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" | 75 |
| Boxer Johansson who was Sports Illustrated's 1959 Sportsman of the Year | 75 |
| Boxer Griffith who's the subject of the documentary "Ring of Fire" | 80 |
| Box sets containing "The Right Stuff," "A Man in Full" and "I Am Charlotte Simmons"? | 114 |
| Boulevard where Fox Studios and the Los Angeles Convention Center are located | 77 |
| Bothersome phrase indicating a show randomly won't air again until next year | 80 |
| Botanist who arranged "On the Origin of Species" to be published in the States | 88 |
| Boston station that produces most of PBS's prime-time television programming | 80 |
| Boston College quarterback with a famous game-ending Hail Mary pass, 11/23/84 | 77 |
| Book whose title character "had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her" at the start of the story | 151 |
| Book whose last chapter of Part I is titled "Jermin Serves Us a Good Turn--Friendships in Polynesia" | 110 |
| Book that says "Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes" | 85 |
| Book that begins "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia ..." | 78 |
| Book that begins "It was the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay." | 120 |
| Book subtitled "Inside the Amazing Success of Today's Most Popular Chef" | 86 |
| Book including chapters titled "Solitude" and "The Ponds" | 77 |
| Book from which the film "What's Love Got to Do With It" was adapted | 82 |
| Book featuring a Whisper-ma-Phone, a Super-Axe-Hacker, Gluppity-Glupp and Schloppity-Schlopp | 92 |
| Book about some dork with the uncanny ability to create computer documents? | 75 |
| Book about how it would be great to stop being nomadic and farm the prairie? | 76 |
| Book about a geeky niche publication whose readership went from 10 to 0? | 72 |
| Bonjour cockzilla, want to ___? Woman scream at this more than luxury present | 77 |
| Bombeck who wrote "The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank" | 78 |
| Bombeck who wrote "If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" | 89 |
| Bombeck who said "A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat." | 83 |
| Boll whose films are so badly reviewed that he challenged his most severe critics to a boxing match | 99 |
| Bohemian writer whose last request was that all his manuscripts be "burned unread" | 92 |
| Bogart told her "You're good ... you're very good" in "The Maltese Falcon" | 102 |
| Body part that 2012 Summer Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville each have one of | 82 |
| Body part in a "Wayne's World" joke used to get the other guy to say "What?" | 100 |
| Bodily organ with no definite structure, function, or truth-value at all? | 73 |
| Bodies making their closest approach in more than 50,000 years on August 27, 2003 | 81 |
| Bobby ___, the only N.H.L.'er to win the Hart, Norris, Ross and Smythe trophies in the same year | 100 |
| Bob Woodward book subtitled "The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi" | 85 |
| Bob who gets away with saying "just for shiggles" on "1 vs. 100" | 84 |
| Bob Marley "The Complete ___ 'Scratch' Perry Sessions" | 72 |
| Bob Dylan song ... or a hint to the object found by connecting the four circled letters in a diamond | 100 |
| Board game with the categories "Data Head" and "Word Worm" | 78 |
| Board game where you might hear, "Colonel Ecru, with the riata, in the oda"? | 86 |
| Bo(dice attachment with la)y(ers that's a hallmar)k (of ballet danc)ing | 75 |
| Blur frontman who sings "And the mind gets dirty / As you get closer to 30" | 85 |
| Blueprint spec ... or an MGM heartthrob's cousin from the Netherlands? | 74 |
| Blueprint spec ... or a '60s-'70s rock group conceding a poker hand? | 76 |
| Blue-tongued dog in the canine version of the "Twilight" series? | 74 |
| Blue Jays pitcher Dave who holds his team's record for most All-Star selections | 83 |
| Blood-typing letters, and a hint to the "transfusions" in this puzzle | 79 |
| Blitzen's seating instruction to his sleigh driver? (No dark forces at work here!) | 86 |
| Blender magazine's #1 song (by Usher and Ludacris) on the 100 Best Songs of 2004 | 84 |