| Byron's words before "'Tis but the truth in masquerade" | 73 |
| Byrne's "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today" collaborator | 78 |
| Bygone sports org. for which Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura was a TV analyst | 78 |
| Bygone publication subtitled "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine" | 90 |
| Bygone NYC club whose name was an acronym for the music genres it featured | 74 |
| But in the end, the sheep had their way, and they all watched "__" | 77 |
| Busy one that has made its mark in this puzzle's five longest answers | 73 |
| Busker's take-home after paying for a street performance license, say? | 74 |
| Business model in which only the deluxe version of a product costs money | 72 |
| Bush who was the first Republican to be reelected as Florida's governor | 75 |
| Bush aide who claimed knowledge of "THE math" before incorrectly predicting the outcome of the 2006 U.S. elections | 124 |
| Burly Burl whose first Broadway show was "The Boys from Syracuse" | 75 |
| Bulwer-___ Fiction Contest (yearly contest involving deliberately awful opening sentences to novels) | 100 |
| Bulwer-Lytton's "It was a dark and stormy night ...," e.g. | 72 |
| Bullfighter who's the subject of the book "Or I'll Dress You in the Mourning" | 95 |
| Bruce Springsteen hit whose first words are "With her killer graces …" | 86 |
| Brownish photo tint [Coming to avxwords.com this fall - celebrity puzzle series] | 80 |
| Browning work "__ Passes," source of "All's right with the world" | 89 |
| Brown who got injured during the miniseries "Feasting on Asphalt" | 75 |
| Brother of Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo | 72 |
| Brother of Dori and Nori, in "The Hobbit: This Should Have Been Just One Movie" | 89 |
| Brockovich who helped build a case against Pacific Gas and Electric Company | 75 |
| Broadway title character whose "special fascination'll prove to be inspirational" | 95 |
| Broadway show whose title woman can "coax the blues right out of the horn" | 84 |
| Broadway show subtitled "The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" | 73 |
| Broadway producer Liz, Tony winner for "Elephant Man" and "Amadeus" | 87 |
| Broadway musical about three guys using the same pickup routine at a bar? | 73 |
| Broadway lyricist/composer who wrote "I Can Get It for You Wholesale" | 79 |
| Broadway hit with the song "I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight" | 78 |
| Broadway composer Matthew who was nominated for a Tony for "The Wedding Singer" | 89 |
| Broadcasting award inscribed with the words "The University of Georgia" | 81 |
| Britpop band with the 1998 compilation "Freshly Squeezed ... The Early Years" | 87 |
| Britney Spears hit with the lyric "A guy like you should wear a warning" | 82 |
| Britney "3" lyric "Living ___ is the new thing, yeah" | 73 |
| British sitcom with the theme song "This Wheel's on Fire," familiarly | 83 |
| British singer with the age-related albums "19" and "21" | 76 |
| British school from which Dominic West of "The Wire" graduated | 72 |
| British rocker with the 1979 #1 hit "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" | 73 |
| British regime in India that ends when "Midnight's Children" begins | 81 |
| British politician lands a devastating uppercut against Phoenix Suns' star Steve Nash? | 90 |
| British art-rock band with the 1975 #2 hit "I'm Not in Love" | 74 |
| British actor Robert, the original Colonel Pickering in "My Fair Lady" | 80 |
| Brit's ending to the song "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" | 74 |
| Brit with the B-side "Love Cheat" on his 1998 "Millennium" single | 85 |
| Brilliantly colored food fish that changes hues when removed from the water | 75 |
| Brightest star in Auriga, from the Latin for "little she-goat" | 72 |
| Briefly, one is aptly placed in the grid in the answer to each starred clue | 75 |
| Briefly, Bay Area forcE [avxwords.com has the edgiest weekly indie puzzles!] | 76 |
| Brief version of this puzzle's title hidden in eight long puzzle answers | 76 |
| Brief comment written by a teacher perhaps when grading an essay because they read a sentence like this one | 107 |
| Brian whose Orchestra had the 1998 hit "Jump Jive an' Wail" | 73 |
| Brian who said "I donÂ’t really have a musical identity outside of studios" | 88 |
| Brian who said "As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me" | 85 |
| Brian who is a rare example of someone whose prominence in crosswords is commensurate with his actual prominence | 112 |
| Brian who hasn't yet joined Neil Diamond in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | 78 |
| Brian McKnight/Vanessa Williams duet with the line "It conquers all" | 78 |
| Breath mint mentioned in "Ya Got Trouble" (from "The Music Man") | 84 |
| Breaks ... or an anagram of the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle | 74 |
| Breadless KFC sandwich on Newsweek's "13 Worst Trends of 2010" list | 81 |
| Bread with swirls stolen by Jerry in a classic "Seinfeld" episode | 75 |
| Brazilian midfielder on back-to-back World Cup winners in '58 and '62 | 77 |
| Brand with the old slogan "Stop making those 'no more coffee' resolutions" | 92 |
| Brand with the old slogan "It's blended, it's splendid" | 73 |
| Brand with the advertising slogan "Do You Pivot Every Morning?" | 73 |
| Brand whose logo has a man in a hard hat dangling from one of its letters | 73 |
| Brand whose limited edition wasabi ginger flavor had damn well better become permanent | 86 |
| Brand once advertised with the jingle "We wear short shorts ..." | 74 |
| Brand named after the pronunciation of its parent company's initials | 72 |
| Brand name that may be a portmanteau of "no" and "hair" | 75 |
| Brand at a checkout counter that's also the name of a Phoenix radio station | 79 |
| Branch of the govt. whose number of employees and annual budget are classified, aptly | 85 |
| Branch of geometry dealing with curved spaces (named after the German mathematician Bernhard) | 93 |
| Boy who pulls the sword from the stone in "The Sword in the Stone" | 76 |
| Boy band with the song "God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You" | 80 |
| Boy band that reunited in 2008 with the album "Summertime," for short | 79 |
| Boy band that appeared on the "New Kids on the Blecch" episode of "The Simpsons" | 100 |
| Boxing champ whose autobiography was titled "A Man Must Fight" | 72 |
| Boxing champ portrayed in the biopic "Somebody Up There Likes Me" | 75 |
| Boxer who told Will Smith "you ain't pretty enough to play me" | 76 |
| Boxer who boasted "If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize" | 100 |
| Boxer on the cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" | 75 |
| Boxer Johansson who was Sports Illustrated's 1959 Sportsman of the Year | 75 |
| Boxer Griffith who's the subject of the documentary "Ring of Fire" | 80 |
| Box sets containing "The Right Stuff," "A Man in Full" and "I Am Charlotte Simmons"? | 114 |
| Boulevard where Fox Studios and the Los Angeles Convention Center are located | 77 |
| Bothersome phrase indicating a show randomly won't air again until next year | 80 |
| Botanist who arranged "On the Origin of Species" to be published in the States | 88 |
| Boston station that produces most of PBS's prime-time television programming | 80 |
| Boston College quarterback with a famous game-ending Hail Mary pass, 11/23/84 | 77 |
| Book whose title character "had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her" at the start of the story | 151 |
| Book whose last chapter of Part I is titled "Jermin Serves Us a Good Turn--Friendships in Polynesia" | 110 |
| Book that says "Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes" | 85 |
| Book that begins "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia ..." | 78 |
| Book that begins "It was the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay." | 120 |
| Book subtitled "Inside the Amazing Success of Today's Most Popular Chef" | 86 |
| Book including chapters titled "Solitude" and "The Ponds" | 77 |
| Book from which the film "What's Love Got to Do With It" was adapted | 82 |
| Book featuring a Whisper-ma-Phone, a Super-Axe-Hacker, Gluppity-Glupp and Schloppity-Schlopp | 92 |
| Book about some dork with the uncanny ability to create computer documents? | 75 |
| Book about how it would be great to stop being nomadic and farm the prairie? | 76 |