Letter B
Bara who starred in silents
Big first name in old silent films
Big name of the silents
___ Bara, early movie actress
___ Bara, former movie vampire.
___ Bara, née Goodman
Billy Squier "In ___"
Bara et al.
Book about an artistic fish?
Bestseller set in the Louvre, following clues from Renaissance art
Book that's a paean to a painter?
Belloc's "Early Morning" figure of speech.
Benchley beach book of '76
Benchley opus
Benchley's follow-up to "Jaws"
Bad thing to go off
Brink of sanity
Better adversary to deal with, in a saying
Bear's sailing vessel?
Brody Dalle "City of Angels" punks
Bette Midler
"B.J. ___" (Stonewall Jackson hit)
Biscayne hospital employee?
Billy Joel ballad about a Long Island fisherman
Bruce Lee nickname
Bettelheim's "Children of ___"
B.B. King song about a missing tool?
"Bang ___ Slowly": M. Harris
Beloved Hollywood nickname
"Beautiful Mistakes" rapper Megan __ Stallion
Bard's pronoun
Bibical pronoun
Bible pronoun
Biblical address
Biblical second person
Blue Oyster Cult "In ___"
Browning's "you"
Bruce Springsteen and ___ Street Band
Book by Taylor Caldwell
Bodies making their closest approach in more than 50,000 years on August 27, 2003
British Empire trade entity founded in 1600
Bono bandmate
Borderline logic?
Bible-reading lisper's "Here's proof"
Betty MacDonald book
Betty MacDonald memoir
British Museum display
Biblical pronoun, heath, watch, body of water, tree?
Blockbuster sequel with an iconic plot twist (1980)
Book by Dorothy J. Roberts.
Bedtime story's final words
Black screen words
Biblical pronouns
BURMESE nut-tree
Bloc that no longer includes Great Britain, for short
Brexit target org.
Brexit target, briefly
Biennial rash?
Biblical passage for a camel
Bette Davis's era?
Baseball's World Series, familiarly
Bil Keane comic
Bil Keane comic strip
Bacall movie
Best place to buy a platter of fruit-flavored sodas?
Best of everything
Best Picture of 1978, to a baby?
Box office bomb about a work-shy guy?
Big bank held by this puzzle's long answers
Bubble handler?
Best Picture nominee in 2011
Bruce Willis film hit: 1997
Bruce Willis sci-fi movie of 1997
Beat Generation period
Billy Joel "We Didn't Start ___"
Baldwin title
Book of essays by James Baldwin
Best-selling novel featuring lawyer Mitch McDeere
Beginning segment of many countdowns
Bertolucci work, from the opposite end
Bernard Malamud Pulitzer winner, 1967
*Baroque masterpiece inspired by rye and semolina?
Beatles biggie
Big collectibles manufacturer
Bichon Frise pack leaders?
Best Picture winner of the 1970s, or what five of this puzzle's answers have
Brothers Grimm tale made into a Muppets TV special
Bob Dylan's "Love and ___"
banditry
Base runner's stats
"Baby I Need Your Loving" group after Levi quit over his refusal to wear one of the group's matching mink shirts?
Beginning of a tongue twister
Banana Republic owner
Big name in casual clothing since 1969
Book by Max Brand
Biblical paradise where Adam and Eve dwelled
Brake neighbor, informally
"Bring on ___," Kaufman-Ryskind musical
Busily running errands, e.g. (with "on")
Best ever, in slang
Best ever, in sports slang
Band whose work is featured in the musical "Head Over Heels"
Best Custard Enhancement award?
Buck Pulitzer-winner
Buck novel
Banana Bananza! Bar purveyor
Bar vendor?
Best time for poets to make a living?
By ___ of (by virtue of).
Beginning of a quote by George Orwell
Boxing title claimed by Muhammad Ali
Bromfield's novel about the Shanes.
"Bonanza" star's stinger?
"Bartender Tom Hanks garnishes margaritas and mojitos"
Beantown wall
Bosox barrier
Bucky Dent slew it at Fenway Park in 1978
Between Tampa and Tampico.
Barbara Tuchman novel
Barbara Tuchman’s Pulitzer-winning history of World War I’s outbreak
Barbara Tuchman book in new time frame?
*Brando movie set in Las Vegas
Book title from Fiona MacLeod poem.
But if you're smart, you'll give yourself...
Book in which Smaug is introduced
Book about pure hydrogen?
Benedict XVI's domain
Benedictine's costume?
"Boyz N ___"
Best seller of 1905.
Bay State capital's nickname
Break ___ (get acquainted)
Break ___ (make a beginning).
Bygone refrigeration-delivery person who's extremely well-mannered?
"Beware ___ of March!"
Beaver structure that defies all laws of physics?
Bitter substance found in tea.
Big water conduit made of glass?
Battleship rocked by a 1989 explosion
Belonging to them
Belonging to them
Belonging to others
Belonging to those folks
Belonging to those people
Book by Churchill.
Basic faith
Basic religious tenet
Belief in a god or gods
Belief in a higher power
Belief in gods
Belief in one God
Belief in something bigger than oneself
Belief that someone is watching you
Believer's creed
Believer in a Creator
Believer in a creation
Believer in a creator god
Believer in a deity
Believer in a higher power
Believer in divinity.
Believer in one Creator
Believer in one God
Believer in only one god
Believer in the existence of a god.
Believing in God
Believing in a god
Believing in one God
Believing in the existence of a God.
Believers in a creator
Believers in one God.
Believers in one creative God
Believers that someone's watching them
Bow's nickname
Bennie's band, in an Elton John hit
Broadway Joe's squad
Batman’s nemesis with a maniacal laugh
Bernstein book.
"___, but they'll be back after lunch"
Bad Billy's nickname
Billy ___ of the Old West
Billy or Coogan
Billy's nickname
Between "South Pacific" and "Me and Juliet."
Broadway treat.
Brynner-Kerr film
Billie Jean, so to speak
Benny GOODman's nickname
Benny Goodman's epithet
Book including Adam, Moses and John the Baptist
Bilingually redundant West Coast museum site
"Behold ___ of God . . . "
Biblical kingdom known for Jerusalem and lion symbolism
Basis for final judgment.
Best selling novel.
Bruce Willis film 1991
Best Picture of 1987
Best film of 1987
Best-selling war journal.
Black Nationalist spoken-word collective whose work was a precursor to hip-hop
Barista's big reveal?
Bad thing to blow, in a game
Book about a tribe's smallest member?
Blue Staters, collectively
Book title derived from Leonardo da Vinci.
Blockbuster 2014 animated film
Bob Hope film of '51
Bob Hope film: 1951
Bob Hope: 1951
Best seller by Lampedusa.
Broad-minded Garfunkel and Carney?
Bio for a Looney Tunes coyote?
Big irritant, slangily
Bettor's concern, which can follow each half of the answers to starred clues
Beings of folklore.
Bottom of Miss Riding Hood's cloak?
Best butcher in the world?
Bobbies, all
Bachelor orchestrator?
Business district in downtown Chicago
Book featuring Humming-Fish in a pond full of Gluppity-Glupp
Book featuring a Whisper-ma-Phone, a Super-Axe-Hacker, Gluppity-Glupp and Schloppity-Schlopp
Best violin player ever?
Best-selling 2003 Alice Sebold novel
Ben Folds song with the lyric "Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls brought me here"
"___ Bones" (Alice in Chains song)
Berlin's "___ There Eyes"
Book by J. C. Oates
Book by Oates
British Invasion band
British Invasion band that launched Van Morrison's career
Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchior
Biblical group bearing gifts
Bernard Malamud's debut story collection featuring a transformative container
Branch Rickey's nickname
Beaumont-Fletcher play
Bad guy in charge
Big Brother, so to speak
Book about Cousteau?
Beginning of an ungrammatical quip
"Blue Moon" singers (1961)
Barbara Tuchman book
Barbara Tuchman's study of recurring historical misjudgments
Before ___ (as a common seaman).
Bea Arthur's cop show?
Basis of a musical composition
Book club topic
Brahms' "Variations on a __ of Paganini"
Brief essay.
Big Bang's source?
Baby boomers, some say
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