| 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 |
| Be hard on the home team | 24 |
| Be haunted by, perhaps | 22 |
| Be head over heels about | 24 |
| Be heavy-handed, in a way | 25 |
| Be held in high esteem | 22 |
| Be honored posthumously | 23 |
| Be hospitable to, maybe | 23 |
| Be hospitable, perhaps | 22 |
| Be hot under the collar | 23 |
| Be idle, with "out" | 29 |
| Be impolite at the table | 24 |
| Be imposing and intimidating | 28 |
| Be in a different form? | 23 |
| Be in a favorable position | 26 |
| Be in a precarious state | 24 |
| Be in a sticky situation? | 25 |
| Be in a winning position | 24 |
| Be in an adolescent mood | 24 |
| Be in an altared state? | 23 |
| Be in class and miss it | 23 |
| Be in competition with | 22 |
| Be in contradiction with | 24 |
| Be in force, as a rule | 22 |
| Be in line for an hour, say | 27 |
| Be in need of a recharge | 24 |
| Be in need of a sick day | 24 |
| Be in need of air, perhaps | 26 |
| Be in the arms of Morpheus | 26 |
| Be in the driver's seat | 27 |
| Be in the game or in the band | 29 |
| Be in the grip of la grippe | 27 |
| Be in the offing, as a crisis | 29 |
| Be in the sun too long | 22 |
| Be inactive, like a volcano | 27 |
| Be incompatible, as colors | 26 |
| Be indebted to promoter | 23 |
| Be indebted to the I.R.S. | 25 |
| Be indiscreet, in a way | 23 |
| Be insincere, in a way | 22 |
| Be insincere, in Fat City? | 26 |
| Be intentionally hard to find | 29 |
| Be interested in, in a way | 26 |
| Be inventive with language | 26 |
| Be involved in, as treatment | 28 |
| Be involved with, as a cause | 28 |
| Be just what's needed | 25 |
| Be lascivious, in a way | 23 |
| Be led by a certain force | 25 |
| Be left with the entire blame | 29 |
| Be less demanding (on) | 22 |
| Be less than 100 percent | 24 |
| Be less than straight with | 26 |
| Be less than watertight | 23 |
| Be liable to garnishment | 24 |
| Be like Daddy Warbucks | 22 |
| Be loud at a funeral, say | 25 |
| Be loud with the bells | 22 |
| Be melodramatic on stage | 24 |
| Be misplaced, as a participle | 29 |
| Be momentarily fazed by | 23 |
| Be monogamous, among animals | 28 |
| Be more dense than water, say | 29 |
| Be more efficient, in a way | 27 |
| Be more important than | 22 |
| Be more successful than | 23 |
| Be more than concerned about | 28 |
| Be more than reluctant to | 25 |
| Be moved by a stimulus | 22 |
| Be much less than a hero | 24 |
| Be natural or uninhibited | 25 |
| Be negatively affected | 22 |
| Be no slouch in class? | 22 |
| Be noncommital on an issue | 26 |