| Best effort | 11 |
| By authority of | 15 |
| Back-to-back | 12 |
| Boot camp response | 18 |
| Bonus attraction | 16 |
| Bowstring source | 16 |
| Bit sorted by its spin | 22 |
| Bitter rival, maybe | 19 |
| Birthplace of many inventions | 29 |
| Breakfast fruit | 15 |
| Barter | 6 |
| Be adjacent to | 14 |
| Be regretful | 12 |
| Bass audio speaker | 18 |
| Be apt [to] | 11 |
| Bangkok residents | 17 |
| Bedroom wake-up signal | 22 |
| Bottom of a shoe | 16 |
| Brother of Cain | 15 |
| Blackened, as a chimney flue | 28 |
| bad actor rejected food somewhere in germany | 44 |
| bit of corn | 11 |
| bay window | 10 |
| brian once called a "sonic alchemist to the stars" | 50 |
| break up | 8 |
| boy who befriends the toon orbitty | 34 |
| businesses with feeding schedules | 33 |
| blanket statement? | 18 |
| banish, as a roommate, in order to hook up with someone | 55 |
| bible possessive | 16 |
| bend the elbow | 14 |
| becomes less distinct | 21 |
| bard's river | 12 |
| blouse frill | 12 |
| buckinghams hit, "kind of ......" | 33 |
| break down, perhaps | 19 |
| beavis, to butt-head | 20 |
| best picture of 1958 | 20 |
| belief system suffix | 20 |
| brighton attraction | 19 |
| british recording giant | 23 |
| b.s., e.g. | 10 |
| buffalo nhl team | 16 |
| baker's tool | 12 |
| brownish pigment | 16 |
| big initials in the early internet | 34 |
| bring [in] | 10 |
| batting time in cricket | 23 |
| bell-shaped chocolate-and-caramel candy | 39 |
| biblical pronoun | 16 |
| blood vessel | 12 |
| burger unit | 11 |
| black card | 10 |
| Biblical figure whose "whole body was like a hairy garment" | 59 |
| biographical record of me in the sea in france | 46 |
| bird with a masculine name | 26 |
| being expert, made progress | 27 |
| bill includes a broken chair that's antique | 43 |
| Blade, its furthest tip slicing through wooden pole | 51 |
| Batting and feeling the stress, but it's great | 46 |
| Bears a message from: "Don't come unarmed" | 42 |
| Because you promise to give it up | 33 |
| Become known around town | 24 |
| brightest star in the constellation orion | 41 |
| bishop at home in receptacle | 28 |
| Bock or dunkel | 14 |
| Bouncer's job | 13 |
| Business name ender | 19 |
| broken | 6 |
| björn ..., abba tribute band | 29 |
| Back-to-school month, for short | 31 |
| Bird that symbolizes peace | 26 |
| Bright, brilliant | 17 |
| Brit's "Baloney!" | 17 |
| Bottomless pit, poetically | 26 |
| batman's foe played by tom hardy and others | 43 |
| Bird gets brown with time, right? | 33 |
| Beast, this writer's editor, set up as no mere mortal! | 54 |
| Bit of Roman arch is made to show radical concept | 49 |
| Back from pyjama party in state of agitation | 44 |
| Biblical brother of Moses | 25 |
| Boston's US state | 17 |
| British conductor who has led orchestras based in Berlin, Birmingham and London | 79 |
| Broad floating leaf of an attractive water plant | 48 |
| Bring back valuable rock following short break | 46 |
| Baby food given by a father | 27 |
| Break free | 10 |
| Before, in poetry | 17 |
| Big name in jeans | 17 |
| Bar bill | 8 |
| Big name in hotels | 18 |
| Big East team known as the Huskies who won the 2023 and 2024 NCAA men's basketball championship | 95 |
| Brief cultural phenonmenon | 26 |
| Bambi, for one | 14 |
| Beige | 5 |
| Betrays | 7 |
| Back muscle, briefly | 20 |
| Balkan native | 13 |
| Bud | 3 |
| Biblical peak | 13 |
| Bank account totals | 19 |
| Blue hue | 8 |
| Boise's state | 13 |
| Bartlett's snippet | 18 |
| Basic idea | 10 |
| Bills with Franklin's portrait | 30 |
| Boston airport | 14 |
| brontë title protagonist | 25 |
| bar mitzvah tradition | 21 |
| Basic raw material | 18 |
| Brief analysis | 14 |
| Bring down | 10 |
| band of constituents heading north | 34 |
| boost body with soup? not so | 28 |
| bound to neglect new branch | 27 |
| before trains, previously you shouldn't have collected boring thing | 67 |
| basic deli's content with cheese mike dismissed | 47 |
| back on board the raft, finally | 31 |
| before the old atmosphere ends | 30 |
| beers | 5 |
| burning pile | 12 |
| be obliged to join queen elizabeth's gathering of longbowmen? | 61 |
| brought up by prime minister heath describing bad weather | 57 |
| buried diamonds swallowed by aristotle accidentally | 51 |
| Beef or seafood, did you say? | 29 |
| Band on book for promotional text | 33 |
| Balthazar, Caspar and Melchior | 30 |
| Bless nation in turmoil | 23 |
| Backs ran amok in cafe? | 23 |
| Befitting a political leader | 28 |
| Backward flow | 13 |
| Blurred | 7 |
| Bluish-purple | 13 |
| Baroque composer | 16 |
| Battle of words | 15 |
| Bringing to nothing | 19 |
| Bronze position in a competition | 32 |
| Be in debt to | 13 |
| Bind securely | 13 |
| Bask on a beach | 15 |
| Benefit, service | 16 |
| bully and lout backing up a dishonest tradesman | 47 |
| bird caught outside one avian centre, which didn't go down well | 63 |
| blood cell cycle out – rebooted with drug | 43 |
| bizarre | 7 |
| barrier for receiver of stolen goods | 36 |
| boat that's under a wine glass | 30 |
| bone and pouch. that's peculiar | 31 |
| biblical woman, she comes and goes | 34 |
| Borders on | 10 |
| Battery terminal | 16 |
| Boston basketballer | 19 |
| Ballplayer's hat | 16 |
| Blood bank supply | 17 |
| Battery's partner in crime | 26 |
| Banks and some sharks | 21 |
| Bravo and Lobo | 14 |
| Big name in PCs | 15 |
| Be awash in red ink | 19 |
| Best Actor Oscar role of 2005 | 29 |
| Banner invitation | 17 |
| Bowling center bench | 20 |
| Brooks from Brooklyn | 20 |
| Betting data | 12 |
| Backslide | 9 |
| Big guy on "Inside the NBA" | 27 |
| Bacterium | 9 |
| Bartlett or Bosc | 16 |
| Banana covering | 15 |
| Basketball great Shaquille | 26 |
| bogged down | 11 |
| became acquainted with | 22 |
| beverly cleary's ".... spofford" | 32 |
| begin to open up? | 17 |
| boardwalk business | 18 |
| big name in salad dressing | 26 |
| bread in a skillet | 18 |
| Ballet exercises done at a barre | 32 |
| Book with the story of Purim | 28 |
| Bung, e.g. | 10 |
| beast | 5 |
| bundles of corn to lift into the vessel | 39 |
| bill is a titled personage, we hear | 35 |
| bag votary transported reveals item of crockery | 47 |
| badly run vessel | 16 |
| bucket said to be washed out | 28 |
| bird which is not all crest | 27 |
| Brief answer received by staff in commercial channel | 52 |
| Breaches of the peace reportedly leading to sentence | 52 |
| Boldness about the time we live in | 34 |
| Band wanting almost utter silence | 33 |
| Bishop and pilgrim fried vegetables | 35 |
| Bobby, Apollonia and Mark Brown initially hula-hoop over grass | 62 |
| Boring wrestling manoeuvre results in stalemate | 47 |
| Bit of a fidget, if you follow | 30 |
| Being out of it is wrong | 24 |
| Bond's old school one? | 22 |
| Breezy society girl making a broadcast | 38 |
| bunk | 4 |
| brother's daughter | 18 |