| BABE MAGNET. Very tall, rugged outdoorsman. Enjoys cutting-edge technology ... | 78 |
| Baby moniker that became wildly popular in the 2000s (hint: read it backwards) | 78 |
| Backdrop for the final scene of Antonioni's "L'Avventura" | 75 |
| Backup band for the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, with "the" | 78 |
| Bacterial issue potentially treatable by drinking cranberry juice: Abbr. | 72 |
| Baffles (ABOUT THIS PUZZLE: If you saw the headline "Fiend Found!" you might instantly notice that, between the two words, only the vowels change — the consonants stay put. Okay, if you were me, you' | 221 |
| Ballplayer arrested for battery, abuse, and possession of drugs and firearms | 76 |
| Ballplayer arrested for possession of cocaine, driving under the influence, and battery | 87 |
| Ballplayer Campaneris who was the first ever to play all nine positions in a single game | 88 |
| Ballplayer Martinez who played in the postseason eight straight years starting in 1995 | 86 |
| Ballplayer who hit home runs in a record 45 different major league parks | 72 |
| Ballplayer who's the subject of a museum at Montclair State University | 74 |
| Baltimore specialty / Effortless task / Move on all fours with the belly up | 75 |
| Bancroft who was the first woman to explore both the Arctic and Antarctic | 73 |
| Band featured in the 2002 documentary "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" | 81 |
| Band originally snubbed by a label that said "Guitar music is on the way out" | 87 |
| Band that eats Peter Frampton's watermelon, in a "Simpsons" episode | 81 |
| Band that headlines the annual "Gathering of the Juggalos" festival, for short | 88 |
| Band that sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" a cappella at the 2000 World Series | 87 |
| Band that sang the "Friends" theme song "I'll Be There for You," with "the" | 109 |
| Band that simultaneously released the albums "Greatest Hits" and "Greatest Misses" | 102 |
| Band that will change your life, according to Natalie Portman in "Garden State" | 89 |
| Band that won five MTV Video Music Awards for "Take on Me" in 1986 | 76 |
| Band who appeared on "The Simpsons" in the episode "New Kids on the Blecch" | 95 |
| Band who guest starred on "The Simpsons" episode "Homer the Moe" | 84 |
| Band who settled on their name by flipping randomly through the dictionary | 74 |
| Band who was the subject of the documentary "Meeting People Is Easy" | 78 |
| Band whose "Only You" was featured in "Napoleon Dynamite" | 77 |
| Band whose "Saturday Morning" is featured in "Wordplay" | 75 |
| Band whose "Shadow Stabbing" is featured in "Wordplay" | 74 |
| Band whose 1994 song "I'll Make Love to You" was #1 for 14 weeks | 78 |
| Band whose frontman passes through the audience in a plastic bubble, with "The" | 89 |
| Band whose name comes from the Latin for "all-encompassing," not from a movie character | 97 |
| Band whose name is based on the name of several members' high school gym teacher | 84 |
| Band with the "Worst Music Marketing" of 2008, according to BusinessWeek | 82 |
| Band with the 1997 double platinum album "So Much for the Afterglow" | 78 |
| Band with the 2006 album "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass" | 84 |
| Band with the 2007 #1 album "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" | 78 |
| Band with the albums "Alpha," "Astra," "Aqua"... (you get the point) | 98 |
| Band with the albums "Intravenus de Milo," "Shark Sandwich," and "Smell The Glove" | 112 |
| Band with the hits "Evil Woman" and "Sweet Talkin' Woman" | 81 |
| Band with the lyric "We're heading for Venus, and still we stand tall" | 84 |
| Band with the multiplatinum albums "Out of Time" and "Monster" | 82 |
| Band with the record for most Top 40 hits without ever having a #1 single | 73 |
| Band with the second-highest-selling album of all time (behind "Thriller") | 84 |
| Bandleader Xavier who led the Waldorf-Astoria's orchestra for 16 years | 74 |
| Baseball div. that provided a wild-card 10 out of the 14 years wild-cards existed | 81 |
| Baseball Hall of Famer Buck whose autobiography was "I Was Right On Time" | 83 |
| Baseball Hall-of-Famer mistakenly listed in "The Chanukah Song" as a Jew | 82 |
| Baseball Hall-of-Famer with the autobiography "Maybe I'll Pitch Forever" | 86 |
| Baseball legend mentioned in Ogden Nash's "Lineup for Yesterday" | 78 |
| Baseball star who reportedly said, "I think there's a sexiness in infield hits" | 93 |
| Baseball team with a losing record every year since moving to Citi Field | 72 |
| Baseballer Vizquel who holds the record for most games played at shortstop | 74 |
| Based on this week's performance, Iggy's assignment next week will be a ... | 83 |
| Basic cable channel ... or a phonetic explanation of this puzzle's theme | 76 |
| Basketball player who was part of Time Magazine's 2012 "Top 100 Most Influential People in the World" | 115 |
| Basketball team that publicly protested Arizona's immigration laws in 2010 | 78 |
| Beach Boys hit of the '80s that I'm going to pretend they never did | 75 |
| Bear: sp. (I'm not even going to dignify this crap fill with a clever clue) | 79 |
| Beastie Boys "You can't, you won't and you don't stop" song | 81 |
| Beatified monk who shares his name with a "Robin Hood" character | 74 |
| Beatles classic with the line "We all want to change the world" | 73 |
| Beatles hit with the line, "Treasure these few words till we're together" | 87 |
| Beatles song that begins "Is there anybody going to listen to my story" | 81 |
| Beatles song with the line "There's one for you, nineteen for me" | 79 |
| Beatles song with the lyric "There's one for you, nineteen for me" | 80 |
| Beatles tune that starts, "When I find myself in times of trouble" | 76 |
| Beatles: "Two ___ sending postcards, writing letters on my wall" | 74 |
| Beatty who voiced Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear in "Toy Story 3" | 73 |
| Beck song that starts "See me comin' to town with my soul ..." | 76 |
| Beekeeper Shavitz who cofounded a company whose products include lip balms | 74 |
| Beer Obama sent to the Canadian P.M. to settle their bet over the Olympic hockey gold medal game | 96 |
| Begin tax calculation: Enter the amount you earned last year from all sources | 77 |
| Beginning of a private message that all the readers of the A.V. Club now get to listen in on | 92 |
| Beginning of labor, and, in another sense, the beginning of each answer to a starred clue | 89 |
| Beginning of the line that precedes "Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!" | 82 |
| Beliefs [Ink Well is always free, but yr tips help sustain us!: bentausig.com/tip.htm] | 86 |
| Belle Fourche, in this state, is about 20 mi. south of the U.S.'s geographic center | 87 |
| Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor based on a "Saturday Night Live" sketch | 88 |
| Ben Franklin's ''Little strokes fell great oaks,'' e.g. | 75 |
| Ben Tausig foretells the future! Pose a yes-or-no question, and solve the puzzle to find the answer | 99 |
| Bend to go through a doorway, say ... or what may be in front of the door | 73 |
| Bentsen who said to Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" | 75 |
| Bernie's "Crocodile Rock" and "Rocket Man" collaborator | 79 |
| Bert and __ ("Sesame Street" regulars or two characters in "It's a Wonderful Life") | 107 |
| Bertrand Russell supposedly said that it "does not determine who is right--only who is left" | 102 |
| Besch who played the mother of Kirk's son in "Star Trek II" | 73 |
| Besides Chile, the only South American country that doesn't border Brazil | 77 |
| Besides Davis, only person to receive five consecutive Best Actress nominations | 79 |
| Besides Olivier, he's the only person to direct himself to a Best Actor Oscar | 81 |
| Best Actor of 1990 who later supplied a voice for "The Lion King" | 75 |
| Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Grammy winner between Fiona and Sheryl | 73 |
| Best Musical the year "Children of a Lesser God" was Best Play | 72 |
| Best Original Song Oscar winner from ... Disney's "Pocahontas" | 76 |
| Best Picture between "The Artist" and "12 Years a Slave" | 76 |
| Best Picture inspired by a Pulitzer-winning series of newspaper articles | 72 |
| Best seller that begins "Children are not rugged individualists" | 74 |
| Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner for "From Here to Eternity" | 72 |
| Best Supporting Actress of 1990 who later supplied a voice for "The Lion King" | 88 |