| British painter, best known for his study of the nude | 53 |
| Barely cooked | 13 |
| Become harder to climb | 22 |
| Bring into harmony | 18 |
| Breakable | 9 |
| Brainwaves | 10 |
| British granny | 14 |
| Bond of fiction | 15 |
| Backs up, as phone data | 23 |
| Break | 5 |
| Base for a Reuben | 17 |
| Bonobo, for one | 15 |
| Bow-shaped | 10 |
| Be ready for combat | 19 |
| Basic ideologies | 16 |
| Building blocks? | 16 |
| Biden maybe joined after elected Democrat quit | 46 |
| Before race, only men slump | 27 |
| Brief sleep | 11 |
| Book's right-hand page | 22 |
| Business phone directory of old | 31 |
| Back muscle, familiarly | 23 |
| Broadcast a second time | 23 |
| Brownish gray shade | 19 |
| Bit of dust | 11 |
| Basic building block of matter | 30 |
| Bass .... Shops [outdoor-goods retailer] | 40 |
| Be in pain, landing ashore | 26 |
| Brisk piece of music | 20 |
| Biased | 6 |
| Bloke with Anne rolling a bit of a joint | 40 |
| bird type | 9 |
| baby's apron | 12 |
| bounded | 7 |
| beside | 6 |
| bee colony | 10 |
| baptism basin | 13 |
| Brief drop | 10 |
| Bedrock pet | 11 |
| Bright beam | 11 |
| Blacken | 7 |
| Baseball's Tommie | 17 |
| Boutique event | 14 |
| Book blurbs, basically | 22 |
| Bakery buy | 10 |
| Be totally awesome | 18 |
| Began dining | 12 |
| Birds in an aerie | 17 |
| Boys, in Bogota | 15 |
| Best effort on the court | 24 |
| Body part that some people can wiggle | 37 |
| Backspace over | 14 |
| blushing | 8 |
| Badly brought up | 16 |
| Be available to act | 19 |
| Beast of burden given first aid | 31 |
| Black mark of disgrace | 22 |
| boyfriend in part of east london, reportedly | 44 |
| Bad behavior | 12 |
| Birds' homes | 12 |
| Bar fixture | 11 |
| Buzzy insect | 12 |
| Bunch of, slangily | 18 |
| Barbecue entree | 15 |
| Blockbuster genre: 2 wds. | 25 |
| Brings on staff | 15 |
| Ballet bend | 11 |
| Blanc who voiced Bugs Bunny | 27 |
| Bit of postage | 14 |
| Baton Rouge's state | 19 |
| Brewed breakfast drinks | 23 |
| Beginning hostilities | 21 |
| British noble | 13 |
| Big jump | 8 |
| Bitter beers | 12 |
| Book part | 9 |
| Boston ballers, for short | 25 |
| Boise natives, e.g. | 19 |
| Beach collectible | 17 |
| Be nosy | 7 |
| Brutish, evil creature from The Lord of the Rings | 49 |
| Bird on a one dollar bill | 25 |
| Barley and wheat relative used in beer and bread | 48 |
| Bible's first flora | 19 |
| Bear up above | 13 |
| Bright thought | 14 |
| Bone-dry | 8 |
| Brunch beverage | 15 |
| Bed-and-breakfast | 17 |
| Butts into | 10 |
| Black, in poetry | 16 |
| Bent out of shape | 17 |
| Boasts | 6 |
| Beast on Michigan's flag | 24 |
| Blood typing concern | 20 |
| Began, as a TV show | 19 |
| Big Apple baseballers | 21 |
| Basketball target | 17 |
| Begin again | 11 |
| Building add-on | 15 |
| Broke into little pieces | 24 |
| Burn with hot liquid | 20 |
| Banquet host | 12 |
| Being chilled, as champagne | 27 |
| Bowling alley targets | 21 |
| blunder [when complacent] | 25 |
| bocelli, for example | 20 |
| busy couple in lifeboat | 23 |
| ballet is out of place in old prison | 36 |
| bear with a too-big chair | 25 |
| bilingual cartoon explorer | 26 |
| backs off | 9 |
| bit of monkey business | 22 |
| bright flowers native to mexico | 31 |
| Become less bright | 18 |
| Being broadcast | 15 |
| Bit of band equipment | 21 |
| Before, poetically | 18 |
| Base's opposite, in chemistry | 29 |
| bigos, bouillabaisse, or burgoo, e.g. | 37 |
| beliebers and swifties, e.g. | 28 |
| brusque | 7 |
| broadcasting one in another programme | 37 |
| brush round man's place for sleeping | 36 |
| bird wearing headgear? | 22 |
| bloomer that's a potential danger to a bit of a liar | 52 |
| broken romance - it's a fiddle | 30 |
| best actor in a leading role oscar nominee for bright victory | 61 |
| best actor in a supporting role oscar winner for johnny eager | 61 |
| bullet hit | 10 |
| burger serving | 14 |
| booty | 5 |
| bridge support | 14 |
| ballroom dance | 14 |
| Bread that may have a pocket? | 29 |
| Bobby ..., former Canadian hockey legend | 40 |
| Black or green brew | 19 |
| Bird who delivers bundles of joy | 32 |
| Baby whales or rhinoceroses | 27 |
| Body cleanliness rituals | 24 |
| blue rondo ... turk, dave brubeck jazz standard | 47 |
| bovid beloved of scrabble players | 33 |
| baby bird | 9 |
| big bang's cause? | 17 |
| believers in a non-interventionist god | 38 |
| bath ... university | 19 |
| brouhaha | 8 |
| Badlands features | 17 |
| Bog fuel | 8 |
| Baseball's Matty or Felipe | 26 |
| Brilliance | 10 |
| Burn .... in one's pocket | 25 |
| Brian ......, the highest try scorer of all time in Irish Rugby | 63 |
| black swan and bad moms actor | 29 |
| bookies' sign language | 22 |
| beware of ... bearing gifts, proverb | 36 |
| bell kept at lloyd's in london | 30 |
| brother of chico, harpo and groucho | 35 |
| Back out [of an agreement] | 26 |
| Bring from abroad | 17 |
| Boycott organisation holding up in cave | 39 |
| Bird in Clyde moving at an angle | 32 |
| Be successful | 13 |
| Breathe out | 11 |
| Baby hare | 9 |
| Blood product | 13 |
| Botanical genus to which the yerba and holly trees belong | 57 |
| Brain region that co-ordinates the autonomic nervous system | 59 |
| Brightly coloured garden bird | 29 |
| Ben ......, Nigerian-born novelist | 34 |
| Boat-steering lever | 19 |
| Begin to move | 13 |
| Bold, fearless | 14 |
| Bible section | 13 |
| Becomes visible | 15 |
| Building for horses | 19 |
| Bath bubbles | 12 |
| Bestselling author of political and legal thrillers, including "The Camel Club," 15-Across, and 32-Across [2 wds] | 113 |
| Breakfast bowlful | 17 |
| Barely passing grade | 20 |
| Beat | 4 |
| Be quiet | 8 |
| Be a freeloader | 15 |
| Bottom-row key on a PC | 22 |
| Barters | 7 |
| Blown away | 10 |
| Brewed beverage | 15 |
| Bruins' sch. | 12 |
| Butte's kin | 11 |
| Behave | 6 |
| Bank ad figures | 15 |
| Benefit | 7 |
| Bit of ink | 10 |
| Back talk | 9 |
| Billions of years | 17 |
| Beer ingredient | 15 |
| Brink | 5 |
| Bargain hunter's neighborhood event | 35 |
| Blubbery predator | 17 |
| Baseball player's topper | 24 |