| Best Actor nominee for "American History X" | 53 |
| Best Actor for "The Story of Louis Pasteur" | 53 |
| Besmirched or, alternately, dressy item for the beach? | 54 |
| Besides Derek Jeter, only Major Leaguer whose 3,000th hit was a homer | 69 |
| Bertrand Russell's "Why I Am ___ Christian" | 57 |
| Bert who sang "If I Were King of the Forest" | 54 |
| Bert who played Zeke in "The Wizard of Oz" | 52 |
| Berra who said, "It gets late early out there" | 56 |
| Berra who said "a nickel ain't worth a dime anymore" | 66 |
| Bernstein's ''Trouble in Tahiti,'' e.g. | 59 |
| Bernstein of "All the President's Men" | 52 |
| Bernie __, subject of the 2011 book "The Wizard of Lies" | 66 |
| Bernie Williams or Derek Jeter, colloquially, in the eyes of fans | 65 |
| Bernardo's girlfriend in "West Side Story" | 56 |
| Bernard the mouse in ''The Rescuers'' | 53 |
| Bernadette of Broadway's "Into the Woods" | 55 |
| Bermuda ___ (extinct bird in "Breakfast of Champions") | 64 |
| Berlioz's "Les Nuits d'Été," e.g. | 58 |
| Berlioz's ''Les nuits d'___'' | 53 |
| Berlioz opera based on Virgil's "Aeneid" | 54 |
| Berlin's "___ This a Lovely Day . . . " | 53 |
| Berlin's "You Can't Get a Man with ___" | 57 |
| Berlin who wrote "The Puzzling World of Winston Breen" | 64 |
| Beret-topped "What's Happening!" character | 56 |
| Benjamin Moore paint color similar to Graham Cracker | 52 |
| Benjamin Harrison's vice president, ___ P. Morton | 53 |
| Benjamin Harrison was the last President to have one | 52 |
| Benjamin Harrison was the last president to feature one | 55 |
| Benjamin Franklin's "The Morals of ___" | 53 |
| Benjamin Britten's "Paul Bunyan," e.g. | 52 |
| Benefit program giving workers a chance to buy co. shares | 57 |
| Benefit program allowing workers to acquire a stake in their co. | 64 |
| Benefit of an unsuccessful stock trade, at filing time | 54 |
| Beneficiary of a fraternity's "legacy system" | 59 |
| Beneficiaries of Bill BucknerÂ’s famous World Series error | 61 |
| Beneficiaries of an annual Willie Nelson charity concert | 56 |
| Benefactor of South Africa's Leadership Academy for Girls | 61 |
| Benefactor of Central Park's Strawberry Fields memorial | 59 |
| Benét's "John Brown's Body" is one | 55 |
| Ben's girlfriend in "Meet the Parents" | 52 |
| Ben's girlfriend in ''Meet the Parents'' | 60 |
| Ben's "There's Something About Mary" role | 59 |
| Ben Stiller's role in "The Royal Tenenbaums" | 58 |
| Ben Stiller played one in "Meet the Parents" | 54 |
| Ben Stiller character with 3% body fat and 1% brain activity | 60 |
| Ben Franklin's mouse pal in "Ben and Me" | 54 |
| Ben Folds Five "___ a brick and I'm drowning slowly" | 66 |
| Ben Folds Five "One Angry ___ and 200 Solemn Faces" | 61 |
| Belly up to the bar and ask for a pint of disinfectant? | 55 |
| Belle & Sebastian's "The State I ___" | 55 |
| Belle & Sebastian "The Boy With the ___ Strap" | 60 |
| Belle & Sebastian "The Boy With the Arab ___" | 59 |
| Bell opening? (and this puzzle's theme spelled out) | 55 |
| Bell Biv ___ (R&B group with the 1990 hit "Poison") | 65 |
| Believer in government where everyone enjoys equal political power | 66 |
| Believer decked out in green, yellow, and red, often | 52 |
| Belief that God created the world, but does not intervene in it | 63 |
| Belief that all things are made of a single substance | 53 |
| Belgium city where Napoleon suffered a crushing defeat | 54 |
| Belgian singer with the 2009 album "ReCreation" | 57 |
| Belgian painter James, known for bizarre fantasies with masks | 61 |
| Belgian painter James with "Scandalized Masks" | 56 |
| Belgian city sometimes mispronounced as "wipers" | 58 |
| Belarus city not far from the similarly-named capital | 53 |
| Belafonte's "Day-O" ditty (with "The") | 62 |
| Bela Lugosi's role in "The Ghost of Frankenstein" | 63 |
| Bela Fleck's instrument after an especially kick ass solo? | 62 |
| Being rude on the phone, sending e-mail flames, etc. | 52 |
| Behavior guidelines for a former TV host's family? | 54 |
| Behave like Cab Calloway's "red hot hoochie coocher"? | 67 |
| Beginning with "dynamic" or "nuclear" | 57 |
| Beginning of the FCC's "safe harbor" hours | 56 |
| Beginning of a George Harrison song title on "Let It Be" | 66 |
| Beginning for "violet" or "sound" | 53 |
| Beginning for "normal" or "legal" | 53 |
| Beginning for "dynamic" or "space" | 54 |
| Beginning for ''carte'' or ''king'' | 67 |
| Begin a game of "She loves me, she loves me not ..."? | 63 |
| Beggar in Sir Walter Scott's "The Antiquary" | 58 |
| Befriender of "Sergeant X" in a Salinger story | 56 |
| Before Oedipus, who could answer the riddle of the Sphinx | 57 |
| Beethoven's symphony with "Ode to Joy" | 52 |
| Beethoven's last piano concerto, familiarly, with "the" | 69 |
| Beethoven's "___ for Winds in E flat major" | 57 |
| Beethoven's "valiant" Vienna debut of 1805 | 56 |
| Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony No. 6 ___ Major | 61 |
| Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony is in it | 54 |
| Beethoven's "Concerto No. 5 in ___ major" | 55 |
| Beethoven's "Choral" Symphony, with "the" | 65 |
| Beethoven's "Choral Symphony," with "The" | 65 |
| Beethoven work completed the same year as the "Moonlight" | 67 |
| Beethoven masterpiece, familiarly, with "The" | 55 |
| Beer whose slogan is "Different By Choice" | 52 |
| Beer that's bootlegged in "Smokey and the Bandit" | 63 |
| Beer drunk by Eastwood in "Gran Torino," for short | 60 |
| Beef variety ridiculed in a series of Jack in the Box ads | 57 |
| Beechbone in "The Lord of the Rings," e.g. | 52 |
| Bee Gees: "How Can You ___ a Broken Heart" | 52 |
| Bedelia whose name (appropriately) means "to cause trouble" | 69 |
| Bedard who voiced the title role in "Pocahontas" | 58 |