| "__ and the Paycock": O'Casey play | 48 |
| "__ and the Real Girl": 2007 film | 43 |
| "__ and weep!": poker winner's cry | 48 |
| "__ and what art thou": Milton | 40 |
| "__ Andronicus" (Shakespeare play) | 44 |
| "__ Angel": doo-wop classic | 37 |
| "__ Angel": Mae West film | 35 |
| "__ any drop to drink": Coleridge | 43 |
| "__ any judge of character ..." | 41 |
| "__ Anything": "Oliver!" song | 49 |
| "__ apple every day . . ." | 36 |
| "__ are alike" (fingerprint phrase) | 45 |
| "__ are the times that ...": Paine | 44 |
| "__ are the we of me": McCullers | 42 |
| "__ Around": Beach Boys hit | 37 |
| "__ Ashes": McCourt bestseller | 40 |
| "__ Astor": Sargent portrait | 38 |
| "__ at the Grill" (2009 cookbook) | 43 |
| "__ avis" (unusual one) | 33 |
| "__ Échos" (French financial paper) | 49 |
| "__ Baba and the Forty Thieves" | 41 |
| "__ Baba Bunny": classic Bugs cartoon | 47 |
| "__ Baby": "Hair" song | 42 |
| "__ bad boy!": Lou Costello catchphrase | 49 |
| "__ be a shame if ..." | 32 |
| "__ be in England ...": Browning | 42 |
| "__ Be in Love": Kate Bush song | 41 |
| "__ Be Surprised": Berlin tune | 40 |
| "__ be wrong, but ..." | 32 |
| "__ be?": "Is that possible?" | 49 |
| "__ Been Lonely Too Long": 1967 hit | 45 |
| "__ been meaning to tell you ..." | 43 |
| "__ been to the mountaintop": King | 44 |
| "__ Beethoven": 2002 Sparks album | 43 |
| "__ Believer" (1966 hit) | 34 |
| "__ Believer": '60s hit | 37 |
| "__ Believer": 1966 hit | 33 |
| "__ Believer": Monkees hit | 36 |
| "__ Believes in Me": Kenny Rogers hit | 48 |
| "__ Ben Adhem": James Leigh Hunt poem | 47 |
| "__ Ben Jonson!": literary epitaph | 44 |
| "__ Ben Jonson": literary epitaph | 43 |
| "__ Beso (That Kiss!)" | 32 |
| "__ Beso (That Kiss!)": Anka hit | 42 |
| "__ Beso": Paul Anka hit | 34 |
| "__ better to have loved ...": Tennyson | 49 |
| "__ Big Girl Now": 1946 hit | 37 |
| "__ Bleed": Stones album | 34 |
| "__ Blinded Me with Science": 1983 hit | 48 |
| "__ Blu Dipinto Di Blu": 1958 hit | 43 |
| "__ Blue": George Strait hit | 38 |
| "__ Bobby McGee": 1971 hit | 36 |
| "__ Bohème" ("Rent" song) | 48 |
| "__ Boom-de-ay": vaudeville song | 42 |
| "__ boy!" ("Way to go!") | 44 |
| "__ Boys" (Alcott book) | 33 |
| "__ Boys" (Alcott novel) | 34 |
| "__ Boys": Alcott novel | 33 |
| "__ Break": Fox TV drama | 34 |
| "__ Breath You Take": Police hit | 42 |
| "__ Breckinridge" (Vidal novel) | 41 |
| "__ Brewster": '80s sitcom | 40 |
| "__ build it, they ..." | 33 |
| "__ built a railroad ..." | 35 |
| "__ Bulba "(Gogol novel) | 34 |
| "__ Bulba" (Gogol novel) | 34 |
| "__ Bulba": Gogol novel | 33 |
| "__ but not least ..." | 32 |
| "__ Buttermilk Sky": 1946 song | 40 |
| "__ By Starlight": jazz standard | 42 |
| "__ call us, we'll ..." | 37 |
| "__ Came Running": Sinatra film | 41 |
| "__ Can Cook": PBS show | 33 |
| "__ Can": Sammy Davis Jr. book | 40 |
| "__ Carousel": Hollies hit | 36 |
| "__ chance, Monsieur!" | 32 |
| "__ Chicago": 1937 Tyrone Power film | 46 |
| "__ children learning?": G.W. Bush | 44 |
| "__ Claire" (fashion mag) | 35 |
| "__ Comes Mary": Association hit | 42 |
| "__ Company": old sitcom | 34 |
| "__ Confessions": 2002 Disney film | 44 |
| "__ corny ...": song lyric | 36 |
| "__ corny as Kansas . . ." | 36 |
| "__ Cousins": 1964 Presley film | 41 |
| "__ Coy Mistress": Andrew Marvell poem | 48 |
| "__ crammed with heaven": E.B. Browning | 49 |
| "__ Crazy": Paul Davis hit | 36 |
| "__ creature was stirring . . ." | 42 |
| "__ creature was stirring ..." | 40 |
| "__ Cross": 1949 Lancaster film | 41 |
| "__ d'art" (curio) | 32 |
| "__ Dalloway" (Woolf novel) | 37 |
| "__ Darko": 2001 sci-fi film | 38 |
| "__ dash of ...": recipe words | 40 |
| "__ Day Will Come": 1963 #1 hit | 41 |
| "__ de service" (service record: Fr.) | 47 |
| "__ Dead?": Mark Twain play | 37 |
| "__ Death": Grieg work | 32 |
| "__ Decor" (home-design magazine) | 43 |