| Bill Withers song about a manipulative partner | 46 |
| Bar patron's request, with "the" | 46 |
| Barrie's "___ Every Woman Knows" | 46 |
| Blink-182 "Enema of the State" smash | 46 |
| Bit of equipment for an outdoor kids' game | 46 |
| Became less reckless, say, with "up" | 46 |
| Band with the 1987 single "Dear God" | 46 |
| Buckley's "God and Man at _____" | 46 |
| Best Actor winner a half-century before Forest | 46 |
| Baseball's all-time leader in total bases | 45 |
| Baseball's "Hammerin' Hank" | 45 |
| Baseball's "inventor" Doubleday | 45 |
| Brazilian state that borders Peru and Bolivia | 45 |
| Benny in ''Benny & Joon'' | 45 |
| Boxers compete in this gp.'s competitions | 45 |
| Baldwin of "Fun With Dick and Jane" | 45 |
| Bush's nickname for senator Barbara Boxer | 45 |
| Boxer known as the "Louisville Lip" | 45 |
| Baseball's Moises, Felipe, Jesus or Matty | 45 |
| Brothers who sang ''Rag Mop'' | 45 |
| Brothers' name of 40's-50's music | 45 |
| Burke of TV's "Burke's Law" | 45 |
| Bening of ''American Beauty'' | 45 |
| Brother of Sanjay on "The Simpsons" | 45 |
| Big Head Todd "Ann ___ Grandfather" | 45 |
| Basketball court's three-point line, e.g. | 45 |
| Bloc Party's "Intimacy" starter | 45 |
| Beethoven's "Der Kuss," for one | 45 |
| Big New York contract signer of 2007, to fans | 45 |
| Body part that may be "on the line" | 45 |
| Burt's co-star in "The Killers" | 45 |
| Bird-creating spell in the Harry Potter books | 45 |
| Braddock beat him to become heavyweight champ | 45 |
| Bread that's boiled before it's baked | 45 |
| Boris's "The Black Cat" co-star | 45 |
| Bellflower or Bell Gardens, vis-Ã -vis L.A. | 45 |
| Bumblebee in the Transformers movies, for one | 45 |
| Biblical figure who received the curse of Ham | 45 |
| Big name in the women's suffrage movement | 45 |
| Boat from the Tamil for "tied wood" | 45 |
| Baseball's all-time career batting leader | 45 |
| Beach Boys had a "Little Deuce" one | 45 |
| Billy and Lucille create a seer's sphere? | 45 |
| Brown who wrote "The Da Vinci Code" | 45 |
| Browne's "cure of all diseases" | 45 |
| Bruce of "That Championship Season" | 45 |
| Blackmore's ''Lorna ___'' | 45 |
| Batted balls resulting in two putouts (abbr.) | 45 |
| Baseball "twin killings," for short | 45 |
| Byrnes of ''77 Sunset Strip'' | 45 |
| British prime minister during the Suez Crisis | 45 |
| Biblical kingdom located in modern-day Jordan | 45 |
| Brand known as Dreyer's in the western US | 45 |
| Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in ___ Major | 45 |
| Barely achieve (with ''out'') | 45 |
| Barely managed (with ''out'') | 45 |
| Barely manages (with ''out'') | 45 |
| Barely gets by (with ''out'') | 45 |
| Brett's opposite number at Giants Stadium | 45 |
| Bagatelle dedicatee of the early 19th century | 45 |
| Band with a "Part II" offshoot band | 45 |
| Baseballer Fernando Valenzuela's nickname | 45 |
| Bishop of ___ ("Henry V" character) | 45 |
| Bert's buddy on "Sesame Street" | 45 |
| Bert's "Sesame Street" roommate | 45 |
| Basil's "Captain Blood" co-star | 45 |
| Bel Kaufman's "Love, ___": 1979 | 45 |
| Berlioz's "Les nuits d'___" | 45 |
| Berlioz's "Les nuits d'---" | 45 |
| Bet predicting the top two finishers in order | 45 |
| Butler's "The Way of All _____" | 45 |
| Black key that's the first of a threesome | 45 |
| Bee ___ ("Stayin' Alive" group) | 45 |
| Brandi Chastain lost her shirt because of one | 45 |
| Bandleader associated with New Year's Eve | 45 |
| Boss -- ('The Dukes of Hazzard' role) | 45 |
| British Columbia town, or celebrated comedian | 45 |
| Big name in all-natural organic food for kids | 45 |
| Bonnie Raitt "___ Make You Love Me" | 45 |
| Britney Spears "Oops!... ___ Again" | 45 |
| Beatnik's ''Understood!'' | 45 |
| Berlin's "___ Lost in His Arms" | 45 |
| Breakfast place that's often open 24 hrs. | 45 |
| Beastie Boys song "Time to Get ___" | 45 |
| Britney Spears's "__ Slave 4 U" | 45 |
| Britney Spears song "___ Slave 4 U" | 45 |
| Beethoven's ''Minuet __'' | 45 |
| Best Original Screenplay Oscar winner of 1961 | 45 |
| Backwards, and key to this puzzle's theme | 45 |
| Breed of Richard Nixon's dog King Timahoe | 45 |
| B.B. King's "Why ___ the Blues" | 45 |
| Brad's co-star in "The Mexican" | 45 |
| Baseball Hall of Famer "Wee" Willie | 45 |
| Billboard's top R&B artist, 2000-2009 | 45 |
| Boutros's successor at the United Nations | 45 |
| Best-selling author of "The Taking" | 45 |
| Barbra's 'A Star Is Born' co-star | 45 |
| British medical journal, with "The" | 45 |
| Busiest airport on the West Coast, informally | 45 |
| Bruce nicknamed "The Little Dragon" | 45 |