| Blender magazine ranked him #1 on its list of 40 worst lyricists in rock in 2007 | 80 |
| Blanche __, pseudonymous author of the 1983 best-seller "Truly Tasteless Jokes" | 89 |
| Blanche DuBois's "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," e.g. | 90 |
| Blake, the first African-American to write and direct a Broadway musical | 72 |
| Black Kids "I'm ___ Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You" | 83 |
| Black Friday destination found in nine of this puzzle's Across answers | 74 |
| Bit of footwear that appears at both ends of this puzzle's theme answers | 76 |
| Birthplace of the first giant panda in North America to survive to adulthood | 76 |
| Biography by James Fenimore Cooper with the alternate title "A Life Before the Mast" | 94 |
| Billy Joel hit that begins "You'll have to learn to pace yourself" | 80 |
| Billy Joel "Lost a ___ of fights but it taught me how to lose OK" | 75 |
| Billing option that favors purchasing individual items rather than packages | 75 |
| Billie Holiday's "You Can't Be Mine (And Someone ___ Too)" | 76 |
| Bill Withers song whose title follows "all you want to do is" in the lyrics | 85 |
| Bill who was rumored to have written Obama's "Dreams from My Father" | 82 |
| Bill who said, "It's all been satirized for your protection" | 74 |
| Bill who said of his TV monologues "It's all been satirized for your protection" | 94 |
| Bill who said "It's all been satirized for your protection" | 73 |
| Bill Moyers speech on income inequality in America, with "The" | 72 |
| Bill Callahan covering Scottish math metal with "I Know What Boys Like" band? | 87 |
| Bill Barber played it on Miles Davis' "Birth of the Cool" album | 77 |
| Biker club for Jewish guys? (This one's real; their shirts say, is hog is kosher") | 91 |
| Big name in CD burning software, to the extent that CDs still get burned | 72 |
| Big letters, for short (and what your answers must be written in to understand the theme) | 89 |
| Big fight, and clue to this puzzle's theme that begins the four longest answers | 83 |
| Big Band star who sang "I Wanna Be Like You" in "The Jungle Book" | 85 |
| Biblically-minded rapper, or a story in which a 2008 runner-up kills his brother? | 81 |
| Biblical figure who says to God "Make me understand how I have erred" | 79 |
| Biblical character who had a son at age 90 and then lived another 815 years | 75 |
| Biblical book whence the line "The meek shall inherit the earth" | 74 |
| Bible book that begins "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia" | 80 |
| Beyonce's "Irreplaceable" and Hall & Oates's "She's Gone," for two | 102 |
| Beverage whose homonym describes what you'll do if you drink too much of it | 79 |
| Beverage dispensed from a machine in Lyndon Johnson's Oval Office lounge | 76 |
| Best-selling novelist whom Time called "Bard of the Litigious Age" | 76 |
| Best-selling novelist who wrote the children's poetry volume "Father Goose" | 89 |
| Best-selling novelist of all time, according to the Guinness Book of World Records | 82 |
| Best-selling novelist about whom Gore Vidal said "She doesn't write, she types!" | 94 |
| Best-selling children's book series by Walter Wick and Jean Marzollo | 72 |
| Best-selling author who wrote "I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation" | 102 |
| Best-selling author of "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" | 76 |
| Best-of-seven mid-October baseball playoff round that doesn't use the designated hitter rule: Abbr. | 103 |
| Best Supporting Actress of 1990 who later supplied a voice for "The Lion King" | 88 |
| Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner for "From Here to Eternity" | 72 |
| Best seller that begins "Children are not rugged individualists" | 74 |
| Best Picture inspired by a Pulitzer-winning series of newspaper articles | 72 |
| Best Picture between "The Artist" and "12 Years a Slave" | 76 |
| Best Original Song Oscar winner from ... Disney's "Pocahontas" | 76 |
| Best Musical the year "Children of a Lesser God" was Best Play | 72 |
| Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Grammy winner between Fiona and Sheryl | 73 |
| Best Actor of 1990 who later supplied a voice for "The Lion King" | 75 |
| Besides Olivier, he's the only person to direct himself to a Best Actor Oscar | 81 |
| Besides Davis, only person to receive five consecutive Best Actress nominations | 79 |
| Besides Chile, the only South American country that doesn't border Brazil | 77 |
| Besch who played the mother of Kirk's son in "Star Trek II" | 73 |
| Bertrand Russell supposedly said that it "does not determine who is right--only who is left" | 102 |
| Bert and __ ("Sesame Street" regulars or two characters in "It's a Wonderful Life") | 107 |
| Bernie's "Crocodile Rock" and "Rocket Man" collaborator | 79 |
| Bentsen who said to Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" | 75 |
| Bend to go through a doorway, say ... or what may be in front of the door | 73 |
| Ben Tausig foretells the future! Pose a yes-or-no question, and solve the puzzle to find the answer | 99 |
| Ben Franklin's ''Little strokes fell great oaks,'' e.g. | 75 |
| Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor based on a "Saturday Night Live" sketch | 88 |
| Belle Fourche, in this state, is about 20 mi. south of the U.S.'s geographic center | 87 |
| Beliefs [Ink Well is always free, but yr tips help sustain us!: bentausig.com/tip.htm] | 86 |
| Beginning of the line that precedes "Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!" | 82 |
| Beginning of labor, and, in another sense, the beginning of each answer to a starred clue | 89 |
| Beginning of a private message that all the readers of the A.V. Club now get to listen in on | 92 |
| Begin tax calculation: Enter the amount you earned last year from all sources | 77 |
| Beer Obama sent to the Canadian P.M. to settle their bet over the Olympic hockey gold medal game | 96 |
| Beekeeper Shavitz who cofounded a company whose products include lip balms | 74 |
| Beck song that starts "See me comin' to town with my soul ..." | 76 |
| Beatty who voiced Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear in "Toy Story 3" | 73 |
| Beatles: "Two ___ sending postcards, writing letters on my wall" | 74 |
| Beatles tune that starts, "When I find myself in times of trouble" | 76 |
| Beatles song with the lyric "There's one for you, nineteen for me" | 80 |
| Beatles song with the line "There's one for you, nineteen for me" | 79 |
| Beatles song that begins "Is there anybody going to listen to my story" | 81 |
| Beatles hit with the line, "Treasure these few words till we're together" | 87 |
| Beatles classic with the line "We all want to change the world" | 73 |
| Beatified monk who shares his name with a "Robin Hood" character | 74 |
| Beastie Boys "You can't, you won't and you don't stop" song | 81 |
| Bear: sp. (I'm not even going to dignify this crap fill with a clever clue) | 79 |
| Beach Boys hit of the '80s that I'm going to pretend they never did | 75 |
| Basketball team that publicly protested Arizona's immigration laws in 2010 | 78 |
| Basketball player who was part of Time Magazine's 2012 "Top 100 Most Influential People in the World" | 115 |
| Basic cable channel ... or a phonetic explanation of this puzzle's theme | 76 |
| Based on this week's performance, Iggy's assignment next week will be a ... | 83 |
| Baseballer Vizquel who holds the record for most games played at shortstop | 74 |
| Baseball team with a losing record every year since moving to Citi Field | 72 |
| Baseball star who reportedly said, "I think there's a sexiness in infield hits" | 93 |
| Baseball legend mentioned in Ogden Nash's "Lineup for Yesterday" | 78 |
| Baseball Hall-of-Famer with the autobiography "Maybe I'll Pitch Forever" | 86 |
| Baseball Hall-of-Famer mistakenly listed in "The Chanukah Song" as a Jew | 82 |
| Baseball Hall of Famer Buck whose autobiography was "I Was Right On Time" | 83 |
| Baseball div. that provided a wild-card 10 out of the 14 years wild-cards existed | 81 |
| Bandleader Xavier who led the Waldorf-Astoria's orchestra for 16 years | 74 |
| Band with the second-highest-selling album of all time (behind "Thriller") | 84 |
| Band with the record for most Top 40 hits without ever having a #1 single | 73 |
| Band with the multiplatinum albums "Out of Time" and "Monster" | 82 |