| Bird mentioned prominently in ''Bringing Up Baby'' | 66 |
| Brown who writes the "Arthur" children's book series | 66 |
| Beverage whose logo was once the bottom half of a woman's legs | 66 |
| Broadway's "The 25th Annual ___ County Spelling Bee" | 66 |
| Brand of chocolate syrup first called a "milk amplifier" | 66 |
| Brian who wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire" | 66 |
| Businesswoman Green nicknamed "The Witch of Wall Street" | 66 |
| British artist William with a 1745 portrait of him and his pug dog | 66 |
| Believer in government where everyone enjoys equal political power | 66 |
| Balance sheet item that's mentioned while doing your business? | 66 |
| Bernie __, subject of the 2011 book "The Wizard of Lies" | 66 |
| Basketball's Archibald injured the Dalai Lama, palindromically | 66 |
| Breakfast serving, and a hint to this puzzle's circled letters | 66 |
| Bean who played Boromir in "The Lord of the Rings" films | 66 |
| Baseball commissioner under whom interleague play became a reality | 66 |
| Briefly, show whose name appears under "123" in its logo | 66 |
| Ben Folds Five "___ a brick and I'm drowning slowly" | 66 |
| Bear ___ (bank that collapsed in the 2008 global financial crisis) | 66 |
| Black mother, peppermint father, genmaicha aunt, pekoe baby, etc.? | 66 |
| Barnes & Noble that's too small for its flow of customers? | 66 |
| But when subprimes and credit default swaps come along, he ___ ... | 66 |
| Basher ___ (Don Cheadle's "Ocean's Twelve" role) | 66 |
| Bosox hero who was the last major leaguer to bat .400 for a season | 66 |
| Boxcars + blind mice2 ÷ Rome's hills × Arabian nights = | 66 |
| Briefly, a feature of each starred clue, and a chunk of its answer | 66 |
| Bloom who played Mary in "The Last Temptation of Christ" | 66 |
| Berra who said "a nickel ain't worth a dime anymore" | 66 |
| Baseball's Eddie who was nicknamed "The Walking Man" | 66 |
| Best Picture winner tied with "Gigi" for shortest title | 65 |
| Babes in Toyland song inspired by "The Little Mermaid"? | 65 |
| Brand with the old slogan "Do you pivot every morning?" | 65 |
| Book of the Bible in which the word "God" never appears | 65 |
| Better Than ___ (band with the 1995 hit album "Deluxe") | 65 |
| Born May 18, 1897, he directed all the films named in this puzzle | 65 |
| Best supporting actress for ''Girl, Interrupted'' | 65 |
| Broadway show featuring the song "Stranger in Paradise" | 65 |
| Basketball phenom Bias who OD'ed two days after being drafted | 65 |
| Beck hit with the lyric "So why don't you kill me?" | 65 |
| Basketball player Kevin who won two Sixth Man Awards in the 1980s | 65 |
| Beethoven's "Choral" Symphony, with "the" | 65 |
| Beethoven's "Choral Symphony," with "The" | 65 |
| Birthplace of Trygvie Lie, the U.N.'s first Secretary-General | 65 |
| Billy Bragg's "I Dreamed I Saw Phil ___ Last Night" | 65 |
| Buck ___, first black coach in Major League Baseball (Cubs, 1962) | 65 |
| Birthstones whose name starts with the same letter as their month | 65 |
| Basil-based sauce (though you can also use peas or garlic scapes) | 65 |
| Business honcho Perelman, who was once the richest man in America | 65 |
| Broadway song that comes before "Adelaide's Lament" | 65 |
| Band whose "No Rain" video had the "Bee Girl" | 65 |
| Book subtitled "Cowgirl Evans's Favorite Desserts"? | 65 |
| Badass who is the subject of the "facts" in this puzzle | 65 |
| Bell Biv ___ (R&B group with the 1990 hit "Poison") | 65 |
| Britpop group behind the hit 1999 album "Leisure Noise" | 65 |
| British game show in which has-beens compete in a jungle, briefly | 65 |
| BORDERS/MATTEL merger headquartered on a famed San Francisco site | 65 |
| Boxer knocking Jack Dempsey out of the ring in an iconic painting | 65 |
| British heavy metal band with the album "Ace of Spades" | 65 |
| Beach Boys album with the hit "Wouldn't It Be Nice" | 65 |
| Blue ___ (kind of fish that Dory is, in "Finding Nemo") | 65 |
| Bernie Williams or Derek Jeter, colloquially, in the eyes of fans | 65 |
| Board game where you have no car, no kids, no luck, and no money? | 65 |
| Beverage brand named from the Russian word for "winter" | 65 |
| Brother referred to in "Am I my brother's keeper?" | 64 |
| British college entrance exams (or parking-garage ground floors) | 64 |
| Bird's jazz style [solve great indie xwords at avxwords.com] | 64 |
| Bacharach who wrote the music for "Promises, Promises" | 64 |
| Brian who coproduced U2's "The Unforgettable Fire" | 64 |
| Berlin who wrote "The Puzzling World of Winston Breen" | 64 |
| Bermuda ___ (extinct bird in "Breakfast of Champions") | 64 |
| Borgnine who did voice work in "SpongeBob SquarePants" | 64 |
| Benefit program allowing workers to acquire a stake in their co. | 64 |
| Bluth brother whose name is pronounced like a biblical character | 64 |
| Ballerina Rubinstein, for whom Ravel wrote "Boléro" | 64 |
| Bible book with the line "For unto us a child is born" | 64 |
| Best Supporting Actor for 1958's "The Big Country" | 64 |
| Band with the multi-platinum album "Follow the Leader" | 64 |
| Bobby Sherman song alternatively titled "If I Had You" | 64 |
| Bird that "at heaven's gate sings," in Shakespeare | 64 |
| Barry who played Lt. Gerard on TV's "The Fugitive" | 64 |
| Britton who wrote "The President's Daughter," 1927 | 64 |
| Boy band whose name was derived from the members' last names | 64 |
| Birdie that's hidden literally in 10 pairs of puzzle answers | 64 |
| Black-and-white items that are 655 days older than the crossword | 64 |
| Bridget's portrayer in "Bridget Jones's Diary" | 64 |
| Board game originally titled "La Conquête du Monde" | 64 |
| Best-seller subtitled "The Saga of an American Family" | 64 |
| Boutique headphones from the producer of "The Chronic" | 64 |
| British scientist Tim credited with inventing the World Wide Web | 64 |
| Bunch of corporate directors who are never replaced, in Anaheim? | 64 |
| Bread spread for someone who's hungry enough to eat a horse? | 64 |
| Bacteriologist Paul who coined the word "chemotherapy" | 64 |
| Bob Seger "Only one thing in common, they got the ___" | 64 |
| Book with the words "Fish in a tree. How can that be?" | 64 |
| Breakfast in bed, say, that's almost always eaten in disgust | 64 |
| Bon ___ (folk band that won the 2012 Grammy for Best New Artist) | 64 |
| Best Supporting Actress nominee for "Five Easy Pieces" | 64 |
| Brand with the tagline "Established in Milwaukee 1844" | 64 |
| Burgess's "I'd rather see than be one" critter | 64 |
| Band whose biggest hit's video featured Milton Berle in drag | 64 |
| Book club selection or, with a comma in between, "new" | 64 |