Letter B
Ballpark in Philly that was imploded in March 2004
Barbara and Joy's show
Biblical birdcall.
Breakfast table exposé?
"Be careful what you say," and a hint to a feature shared by this puzzle's perimeter answers
Beatles title critter
Beginning of a truism
"By ___ of Babylon . . . "
Bored fans do it
Baseball's "show-me" attitude
Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford romance classic
Broadcast network shuttered in 2006
Bygone TV net with a frog mascot
B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, collectively
Bethlehem home [NOTE 4 SOL: Maybe we'll think hard on what a good West Bank clue is]
Beatles tribute to eggs?
Booker Prize-winning début novel for Aravind Adiga
"Baba O'Riley" rockers
"Behind Blue Eyes" rockers
Band heard in "CSI" theme songs
Baker's gift to Dad?
Baltimore series
"Be a Lion" musical
Broadway musical based on a Baum book
Broadway musical set in Kansas and Oz
Bouncer who can always spot a fake?
Baum creation
Bread-sponsored sitcom of the '80s and '90s?
"But Heaven will protect ___."
Book of facts published annually
Break-dancing move that became a popular party trick in the nineteen-eighties
Backlash from a Canadian territory?
Bodyguard for aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur?
Bridge opponents
Bridge score-pad word
Bridge scorecard heading
Bridge scorepad column
Bridge tally heading
Bridge team
Bridge-score column
Bronx heroes (including the first word of a Matthew Prior quote)
"Bloom ___ long!": R. Bridges
"Because ___ Young" (1960 Dick Clark movie)
"__ baaaaack!"
Bread fortifier.
"Blurred Lines" singer Robin
Become more viscous
Beef up advisory boards?
Becomes more complex, as a plot
BOSK
Baghdad notable
Burglar or pickpocket, for example
Be a robber
Be sticky-fingered
Breast alternative
Body parts that might be rescued by Megababe
Buggy shafts.
Bhutan's capital
Bad way to wear
Become less dense, with "out"
Barely substantial, like some excuses
Bill Cosby creation
Belonging to thee
Biblical "yours"
Biblical possessive
Biblically yours
Beyoncé's "Best __ I Never Had"
Black box on "The Addams Family"?
bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
Be a dreamer
Be resourceful, perhaps
Brainy swimmer?
Be mentally agile
Brainstorming institution
Brainstorming site
Brookings Institution or Center for American Progress, e.g.
Be deliberative
Be open-minded, maybe
Bad way to be disguised
Became less dense.
Became sparse.
Beanpole's claim to fame
Become less crowded
Become sparse
Becomes less dense
Becomes scantier.
Becomes slender.
Becomes slenderer.
Becomes sparse
Becomes less dense or more slender
Bad trait for a politician
Base before home
Base before home plate
Bronze medal position in a race
Base for Nettles or Schmidt
Base just before home base
Base near home
Base with a coach
Baseball's "hot corner"
Beethoven's "Eroica."
Boggs' base
Boston's "Stage"
Bronze - winning places
Bronze finisher's place
Bronze medal winner.
Bronze medalist
Bronze medalist's finish
Bronze medalist's place
Bronze medalist's position
Bronze ordinal
Bronze place
Bronze position
Bronze taker's place
Bronze winner's placek
Bronze's place
Brooks Robinson's base
Brooks Robinson's position
___ base (hand stuff, metaphorically)
baseball hot corner
Baseball manager's aide
Band with the 1997 hit "Semi-Charmed Life" … or a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme
Bronze-winning positions
Bs in the key of G, e.g.
Bad news on "Family Feud"
Backup player's backup
Baker's dozen quantity
Baby-boomer series
Baby-boomer series that starred Ken Olin
being two more than thirty
"Born ___ Way"
"Born ___ Way" (Lady Gaga hit)
"___ Bitter Earth" (Dinah Washington song)
"___ Boy's Life": De Niro '93 film
Beginning of many introductions
Bette Davis's "___'N' That"
Billy Crystal's "Analyze ___"
Billy Joel "___ Is the Time"
bless ___ house
Beloved of Pyramus
Before midnight tonight
Burnett tale of a heron sanctuary?
Bartender's expression.
Bar announcement after happy news, perhaps
Box orientation instruction
By December 31
Benny Goodman hit of 1937
"But that backflip ___" (famous King Bach quote)
Brief "despite"
Brief while?
But, briefly
But, cut?
But, for short
bench (in a boat) upon which a rower sits
Boat peg
Boat pin
Boater's pin
beehive-shaped tomb associated with Mycenaean Greece
Bandmate of Ed, Johnny, Phil and Colin
Baseball's "Big Hurt"
Biblical doubter
Blockhead, formally
British poet-humorist of 19th C.
Book by a German author?
Boss Tweed's caricaturist
Birdhouse cartoonist?
Bobby of Polo Grounds fame
Babiche
Barely there swimwear
Barely-there beach wear
Barely-there underwear
Beachwear choice
Beachwear for the immodest
Beachwear item
Beachwear that leaves little to the imagination
Beefcake calendar wear
Bikini beater
Bikini style
Binding strap.
Bit of beach footwear
Bold beachwear
Bound with straps.
Barely there beachwear
Barely there bottoms
Beach wear for some
"B.C." inventor
Baffin Island peak found, aptly, about ten miles from Mount Asgard
Balder brother
Ballistic missile of the 1950s
Battler of Skurge
Brother of Balder
Brother of Loki
By way of: Abbr.
Birch of "Alaska"
Birch of "American Beauty"
Birch of "Ghost World"
Birch of "Ghost World" and "The Walking Dead"
Birch of "Hocus Pocus"
Birch of "Tainted Love" (2006)
Birch who had a recurring role on "The Walking Dead"
___ Birch ("American Beauty" actress named for a Norse god)
___ Birch, "American Beauty" actress
BODY trunk above diaphragm and below neck
Bee's middle
Body section
BRITISH letter, old
Barb in a bush
Barb in a rosebush
Berry bush feature, often
Black Crowes "___ in My Pride"
Botanical barb
Bougainvillea feature
Bramble feature
Branch sticker
Briar part
Briar sticker
Brier feature
Brier part
Brier point
Bush barb
Bush defense?
barbule
BLUE tit
*Builder of an immense domed nest of twigs
Bella of "Midnight Sun"
Biblical crown material
Bike trail hazards
Bramble bush features
Brambles' protection
"Bad Santa" star
Billy Bob of movies
Beset with obstacles.
BONESET
Breaker of the 400-meter freestyle world record at the 2000 Olympics
Ballistic missiles
"___ Barren Leaves"—Huxley.
BIAINA, ancient kingdom capital of the (Turk.)
"Bird ___ never wert": Shelley
Biblical pronoun for "you"
Bank heist unit
Benny x 10
Big chunk of moola
Buber's I and ____
Brain action
Business buzzword basically synonymous with "influencer" ... or a description of the first word in each starred entry
Big bills, for short
Big numbers, for short
Bill picturing Cleveland
Bill with Cleveland's face
Bowl game crowd
Balkan area.
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