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Basketballer nicknamed "Dennis the Menace" 52
Basketball Hall-of-Famer Dick, who played for the 1950's Knicks 67
Bad math teacher saying: "There are three . . ." 58
Bandleader with the #1 hit "Unchained Melody" 55
Bodine's portrayer on "The Beverly Hillbillies" 61
Bebe who co-starred in "The Maltese Falcon," 1931 59
Band that can retrofit your theater to accommodate automobiles? 63
British military governor in the American Revolution 52
Backs of 45's having a sudden change in direction? 54
Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is one 54
Banderas's "The Mambo Kings" co-star, 1992 56
Brand advertised as ''two mints in one'' 56
Baseball's quarter-billion dollar man, for short 52
Best Actress Oscar winner for "The Reader" 52
Bunker, to Stephanie on "All in the Family" 53
Big ___ (NCAA conference that actually has eleven teams) 56
Bureau that added "Explosives" to its name in 2002: abbr. 67
Biblical land whose name means "red" in Hebrew 56
Birthstones whose name starts with the same letter as their month 65
Batting-practice contraptions (this involves two theme words) 61
Bird that's probably not wise and certainly not old 55
Best Supporting Actor between Washington and Palance 52
Biblical place Talk Talk had the "Spirit of" 54
Biblical priest whose name means "God has helped" 59
Billy who sang "We Didn't Start the Fire" 55
Broadway musical with the song "The Gods Love Nubia" 62
Ben Folds Five "One Angry ___ and 200 Solemn Faces" 61
Biopic about a composer from a WWII hero's perspective? 59
Body of water found in this grid's upper-right corner 57
Biblical place Brandon Heath was "Leaving" 52
Bach composition that might have you pulling out all the stops? 63
Bay City Rollers' 1978 hit, "The ___ Feel Tonight" 64
Bug whose offspring may be pregnant before their own birth 58
Baseball term that defines the threshold of incompetent hitting 63
Bon Jovi power ballad off "Slippery When Wet" 55
Britain's biggest-selling paper, with "The" 57
Beach Boys album with the hit "Wouldn't It Be Nice" 65
Bottled water source located in Maine, not Eastern Europe 57
Brecht's "Threepenny Opera" collaborator 54
Boxer on season 4 of "Dancing With the Stars" 55
Body of water that covers about 30% of the Earth's surface 62
Big Daddy portrayer, in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" 57
Bilingual ''Sesame Street'' character 53
Burgess's "I'd rather see than be one" critter 64
Best Supporting Actor for his role as Sergeant Foley 52
Bill Withers "___ no sunshine when she's gone" 60
Band with a 1985 U.K. #1 album titled "Meat Is Murder" 64
British scientist Tim credited with inventing the World Wide Web 64
Bread that's called "whiskey" in diner lingo 58
Biblical pronoun, heath, watch, body of water, tree? 52
Brand with the tagline "Established in Milwaukee 1844" 64
Be content (with ''one's laurels'') 55
Bosox hero who was the last major leaguer to bat .400 for a season 66
Babes in Toyland song inspired by "Little Mermaid"? 61
Bill who created the comic strip "Smokey Stover" 58
Butler's portrayer in "Gone with the Wind" 56
Band with the 1990 album "Smooth Noodle Maps" 55
Base off the coast of Brest for France's nuclear submarines 63
Band with the album "Spreading the Disease" 53
Boxer shorts quantity, even though it's just one 52
Brit. Broadcasting Corp., familiarly (with "the") 59
Brutal creatures in "The Lord of the Rings" 53
Bolivian capital that translates to "the peace" 57
Because of tough economic times, the literary character was ___ 63
Billy who played Pippin in "Lord of the Rings" films 62
Book that tells you the meaning of "life": Abbr. 58
Ballplayer Brandon who struck out to end the 2006 World Series 62
Book that describes the destruction of Gog and Magog 52
Baseball stat originally called "Heydler's statistic" 67
Barrett who played on the only great Pink Floyd album [*ducks*] 63
Boxer who has tattoos of Mao Tse-Tung and Che Guevara 53
Boss's holiday dinner dilemma in a tight economy? 53
British Invasion genre named for Liverpool's river 54
Biting thriller by Tom Clancy? (with "The") 53
Barry who played Lt. Gerard on TV's "The Fugitive" 64
Buy some flowers for the wife after forgetting date night, say 62
Bob who sang "You'll Accomp'ny Me" 52
Broadway's ''Five Guys Named ___'' 54
Baseball manager Joe who authored "The Yankee Years" 62
Boyfriend-to-girlfriend "You have to choose!" 55
Better Than ___ (band with the 1995 hit "Good") 57
Bob Loblaw portrayer on "Arrested Development" 56
Baseball's Piniella, nicknamed "Sweet ___" 56
Boutique headphones from the producer of "The Chronic" 64
Brandon ___ (Hilary Swank's "Boys Don't Cry" role) 68
Bottles of Evian declared on a bistro worker's return? 58
Boy who saw dead people in "The Sixth Sense" 54
Big ___ (country rapper with an A&E reality show) 53
Ben's "There's Something About Mary" role 59
Bosox legend who won baseball's last triple crown 53
Book club selection or, with a comma in between, "new" 64
Brad Pitt's costar in "The Tree of Life" 54
Blanchett of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" 60
Bowie's scientist role in "The Prestige" 54
Blake said one "in a cage puts all heaven in a rage" 62
Bobby Darin song title, with ''the Sea'' 56
British band with the 1967 hit "Itchycoo Park" 56
Back to the beginning (like how this puzzle's theme goes) 61
Bruce Springsteen album "The Ghost of Tom ___" 56
Band with the live album "Paintin' the Town Brown" 64