| Bird-creating spell in the Harry Potter books | 45 |
| Braddock beat him to become heavyweight champ | 45 |
| Bread that's boiled before it's baked | 45 |
| Boris's "The Black Cat" co-star | 45 |
| Bellflower or Bell Gardens, vis-Ã -vis L.A. | 45 |
| Bumblebee in the Transformers movies, for one | 45 |
| Biblical figure who received the curse of Ham | 45 |
| Big name in the women's suffrage movement | 45 |
| Boat from the Tamil for "tied wood" | 45 |
| Baseball's all-time career batting leader | 45 |
| Beach Boys had a "Little Deuce" one | 45 |
| Billy and Lucille create a seer's sphere? | 45 |
| Brown who wrote "The Da Vinci Code" | 45 |
| Browne's "cure of all diseases" | 45 |
| Bruce of "That Championship Season" | 45 |
| Blackmore's ''Lorna ___'' | 45 |
| Batted balls resulting in two putouts (abbr.) | 45 |
| Baseball "twin killings," for short | 45 |
| Byrnes of ''77 Sunset Strip'' | 45 |
| British prime minister during the Suez Crisis | 45 |
| Biblical kingdom located in modern-day Jordan | 45 |
| Brand known as Dreyer's in the western US | 45 |
| Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in ___ Major | 45 |
| Barely achieve (with ''out'') | 45 |
| Barely managed (with ''out'') | 45 |
| Barely manages (with ''out'') | 45 |
| Barely gets by (with ''out'') | 45 |
| Brett's opposite number at Giants Stadium | 45 |
| Bagatelle dedicatee of the early 19th century | 45 |
| Band with a "Part II" offshoot band | 45 |
| Baseballer Fernando Valenzuela's nickname | 45 |
| Bishop of ___ ("Henry V" character) | 45 |
| Bert's buddy on "Sesame Street" | 45 |
| Bert's "Sesame Street" roommate | 45 |
| Basil's "Captain Blood" co-star | 45 |
| Bel Kaufman's "Love, ___": 1979 | 45 |
| Berlioz's "Les nuits d'___" | 45 |
| Berlioz's "Les nuits d'---" | 45 |
| Bet predicting the top two finishers in order | 45 |
| Butler's "The Way of All _____" | 45 |
| Black key that's the first of a threesome | 45 |
| Bee ___ ("Stayin' Alive" group) | 45 |
| Brandi Chastain lost her shirt because of one | 45 |
| Bandleader associated with New Year's Eve | 45 |
| Boss -- ('The Dukes of Hazzard' role) | 45 |
| British Columbia town, or celebrated comedian | 45 |
| Big name in all-natural organic food for kids | 45 |
| Bonnie Raitt "___ Make You Love Me" | 45 |
| Britney Spears "Oops!... ___ Again" | 45 |
| Beatnik's ''Understood!'' | 45 |
| Berlin's "___ Lost in His Arms" | 45 |
| Breakfast place that's often open 24 hrs. | 45 |
| Beastie Boys song "Time to Get ___" | 45 |
| Britney Spears's "__ Slave 4 U" | 45 |
| Britney Spears song "___ Slave 4 U" | 45 |
| Beethoven's ''Minuet __'' | 45 |
| Best Original Screenplay Oscar winner of 1961 | 45 |
| Backwards, and key to this puzzle's theme | 45 |
| Breed of Richard Nixon's dog King Timahoe | 45 |
| B.B. King's "Why ___ the Blues" | 45 |
| Brad's co-star in "The Mexican" | 45 |
| Baseball Hall of Famer "Wee" Willie | 45 |
| Billboard's top R&B artist, 2000-2009 | 45 |
| Boutros's successor at the United Nations | 45 |
| Best-selling author of "The Taking" | 45 |
| Barbra's 'A Star Is Born' co-star | 45 |
| British medical journal, with "The" | 45 |
| Busiest airport on the West Coast, informally | 45 |
| Bruce nicknamed "The Little Dragon" | 45 |
| British city whose natives are called Loiners | 45 |
| Berkshires town that's home to Tanglewood | 45 |
| Byzantine emperor called "the Wise" | 45 |
| Brother Cane "I ___ the Bed I Make" | 45 |
| Bart's sister on "The Simpsons" | 45 |
| Best Actress winner for "Two Women" | 45 |
| Big __: nickname for LPGA great JoAnne Carner | 45 |
| Bette's role in "All About Eve" | 45 |
| Burger's court opponent, in legal fiction | 45 |
| Booker T.'s bandmates in '60s R&B | 45 |
| Bartender Szyslak on "The Simpsons" | 45 |
| Board game where players win pieces of cheese | 45 |
| Beverage company formerly known as Chero-Cola | 45 |
| Best Animated Feature of 2003 title character | 45 |
| Beach Boys "Wouldn't It Be ___" | 45 |
| Brand in the lyrics of "Kodachrome" | 45 |
| Battle of the ___ (Ptolemy XIII's defeat) | 45 |
| Big Apple neighborhood near Greenwich Village | 45 |
| Barely defeated, with ''out'' | 45 |
| Ben (___-Wan) Kenobi in "Star Wars" | 45 |
| Big Brother's "1984" superstate | 45 |
| Bulls' fans don't want to hear these? | 45 |
| Barbra's costar in "Funny Girl" | 45 |
| Brando's ''The Wild ___'' | 45 |
| Bridge opening showing 15-17 high card points | 45 |
| Basie's "_____ 'Clock Jump" | 45 |
| Bruce Hornsby "___ Western Skyline" | 45 |
| Bridget Riley's "Blaze 4," e.g. | 45 |
| Britten's "Billy Budd," for one | 45 |
| Ball borne by the nine longest Across answers | 45 |
| Broadway's "August: ___ County" | 45 |