| Best Musical winner after "Sunset Boulevard" | 54 |
| Billy Crystal's "Memories of Me" co-star | 54 |
| Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is one | 54 |
| Blues Traveler "Travelers & Thieves" jam | 54 |
| Bruce Wayne's status during speed dating sessions? | 54 |
| Baltimore Oriole who played in 2,632 consecutive games | 54 |
| Beverly of "National Lampoon's Vacation" | 54 |
| Battleship coordinate at the middle right of the board | 54 |
| Business transactions free from government regulation? | 54 |
| Bad-day-in-the-market headline for a sushi restaurant? | 54 |
| Backs of 45's having a sudden change in direction? | 54 |
| Bigger band that covered "Joy to the World"? | 54 |
| Button that may be shared with "number lock" | 54 |
| Biopic about a composer who is unrecognized in public? | 54 |
| Butt of first daughter Helen Taft's bathtub jokes? | 54 |
| Board game demand, and hint to this puzzle's theme | 54 |
| Brando's "A Streetcar Named Desire" role | 54 |
| Businessman who dies in the movie "Watchmen" | 54 |
| Berlioz opera based on Virgil's "Aeneid" | 54 |
| Ben Stiller played one in "Meet the Parents" | 54 |
| British Invasion genre named for Liverpool's river | 54 |
| Best Picture also-ran to "Kramer vs. Kramer" | 54 |
| Budding classicist's statement about future plans? | 54 |
| Blood type historically considered the universal donor | 54 |
| Brahms work that includes "Behold All Flesh" | 54 |
| British period beginning in 1660, with "the" | 54 |
| Brad Pitt's costar in "The Tree of Life" | 54 |
| Black Crowes "The ___ and Musical Companion" | 54 |
| Brent who played Data on "Star Trek: T.N.G." | 54 |
| Besmirched or, alternately, dressy item for the beach? | 54 |
| Big East team with six N.I.T. basketball championships | 54 |
| Building material in "The Three Little Pigs" | 54 |
| Benefit of an unsuccessful stock trade, at filing time | 54 |
| Bowie's scientist role in "The Prestige" | 54 |
| Ball that falls between an infielder and an outfielder | 54 |
| Bogart/Bacall mystery about serious basement dampness? | 54 |
| Behavior guidelines for a former TV host's family? | 54 |
| Best-selling author of "Up the Organization" | 54 |
| Band with the 2010 #3 hit "Hey, Soul Sister" | 54 |
| Billy Bob Thornton: "The Man Who ___" (2001) | 54 |
| Belgium city where Napoleon suffered a crushing defeat | 54 |
| Brecht's "Threepenny Opera" collaborator | 54 |
| Brutish creature in "Gulliver's Travels" | 54 |
| Band whose final new album was "The Visitors" | 55 |
| Breed of the dog Evita, in the musical "Rent" | 55 |
| Battle depicted in ''The Last Command'' | 55 |
| Belle & Sebastian's "The State I ___" | 55 |
| Bourne's problem in "The Bourne Identity" | 55 |
| Billie Holiday's ''Me, Myself ___'' | 55 |
| Band whose self-titled 1982 album was #1 for nine weeks | 55 |
| Big ___ Dynamite (Mick Jones' band after The Clash) | 55 |
| Baroque composer of the "Goldberg Variations" | 55 |
| Benjamin Harrison was the last president to feature one | 55 |
| Barbara who played Fay on "Hill Street Blues" | 55 |
| Billy Idol "If I should stumble, ___ my fall" | 55 |
| Blanchett who plays Jasmine in "Blue Jasmine" | 55 |
| Barbara Bain's "Mission: Impossible" role | 55 |
| Battle of WilsonÂ’s ___ (early Civil War engagement) | 55 |
| Bane in Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" | 55 |
| Brand available in "fire" and "ice" | 55 |
| Barrie's portrayer in "Finding Neverland" | 55 |
| Band with the 1990 album "Smooth Noodle Maps" | 55 |
| Band with the 1990 album "Lock Up the Wolves" | 55 |
| Band with the 1983 hit "Hungry Like the Wolf" | 55 |
| Bob who sang "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" | 55 |
| Brewer of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable | 55 |
| Beethoven's "Concerto No. 5 in ___ major" | 55 |
| Broncos quarterback who led "The Drive," 1986 | 55 |
| Benét's "John Brown's Body" is one | 55 |
| Banks famous for saying "Let's play two!" | 55 |
| Button to keep your finger on when viewing NSFW content | 55 |
| Brand name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet | 55 |
| Bonnie Tyler lyric "I need you more than ___" | 55 |
| Book concerned with the end of the Babylonian captivity | 55 |
| Beethoven masterpiece, familiarly, with "The" | 55 |
| Bad thing to be caught with at work, with "a" | 55 |
| Boyfriend-to-girlfriend "You have to choose!" | 55 |
| Bad luck, and a hint to the four longest across answers | 55 |
| Breakfast chain that doesn't serve real maple syrup | 55 |
| Bac 'n' Cheddar Waffullicious Waffle restaurant | 55 |
| Birthplace of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Michelle Obama | 55 |
| Bach’s “Great Fantasia and Fugue ___ Minor” | 55 |
| Band featured on the reality show "Rock Star" | 55 |
| Buddy's role in "The Beverly Hillbillies" | 55 |
| Best-selling children's author who became a baronet | 55 |
| Billy who sang "We Didn't Start the Fire" | 55 |
| Boxer on season 4 of "Dancing With the Stars" | 55 |
| Burns's "The Lovely ___ o' Inverness" | 55 |
| Best Actor winner for "Save the Tiger" (1973) | 55 |
| Bandleader with the #1 hit "Unchained Melody" | 55 |
| Buddy Love portrayer in "The Nutty Professor" | 55 |
| Bell opening? (and this puzzle's theme spelled out) | 55 |
| Brady Campaign foe in the fight for gun control (abbr.) | 55 |
| Book on which "There Will Be Blood" was based | 55 |
| Bobby whose statue is outside of Boston's TD Garden | 55 |
| Bird that's probably not wise and certainly not old | 55 |
| Beverage originally called "Brad's Drink" | 55 |
| Bernadette of Broadway's "Into the Woods" | 55 |
| Boston skyscraper's nickname (with "The") | 55 |
| Break, briefly ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 55 |