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- Before, in a hymnbook
- Before, in olden times
- Before, in poetry
- Before, informally
- Before, poetically
- Before, to Shakespeare
- Begin, with "off"
- Beginning of the spelling of "Hera"
- Behavioral quirk
- "Believe it or ___ ..."
- "___ Believer"
- Belinda's business on "The White Lotus"
- Belt in judo
- Belt with a kimono
- Ben Jonson wrote one to himself
- "Ben-___"
- Bench press muscle, for short
- Bench press target, informally
- Benefit plan option, in brief
- Berkeley campus, for short
- Berkeley university, familiarly
- Besmirch
- ___ Beta Kappa
- "Better Call Saul" network
- "___ better to have loved and lost ..."
- Beurre demi-___ (salted butter, in France)
- Beverage sometimes served with cucumber sandwiches
- Beverage that may come in a pint
- Bevy : quail :: parliament : ___
- Bible-inspired tourist attraction in Williamstown, Ky.
- Biblical second coming?
- Biden and Bush, once, in brief
- Big ___
- Big ___ (audacious thing to make)
- Big ___, West Coast tourist destination
- Big accomplishment, so to speak
- Big Apple airport code
- Big Apple media inits.
- Big bang cause
- Big blare
- "Big Blue"
- Big cheese with bread, for short
- Big coffee holder
- Big Dutch bank
- Big fight
- Big inits. in 1990s internet
- Big inits. in Dutch banking
- Big inits. in home security
- Big inits. in pickup trucks and vans
- Big laugh
- Big letters in bowling
- Big letters in home security
- Big movie theater chain
- Big name in cloud services
- Big name in deep-dish pizza
- Big name in early email
- Big name in hardware stores
- Big name in kitchenware
- Big name in London
- Big name in nail polish
- Big name in pickup trucks
- Big name in shipping logistics
- Big name in the pasta aisle
- Big name in trucks
- Big name in water filters
- Big part of an elephant
- Big payroll service co.
- Big player in D.C., for short?
- Big purveyor of health supplements
- Big retail inits. in footwear
- Big shot
- Big tub
- Bikini season, in Bordeaux
- Bill ___ the Science Guy
- Bill who says "Science rules!" in the intro to his TV show
- Bill's partner
- Billy ___ Williams, actor who played Lando Calrissian in "Star Wars"
- Billy bawl?
- Billy goat's cry
- "___ bin ein Berliner"
- Binary 10, in decimal value
- Biol. or chem.
- Bird adapted for silent flight
- Bird of the W.N.B.A.
- Bird whose eggs are sometimes a canvas for Aboriginal art
- Bird with "barn" and "barred" varieties
- Bird with noted calf muscles
- "___ Birds" (Hitchcock film that suggests this puzzle's theme)
- Birth month of most Virgos: Abbr.
- Birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr.: Abbr.
- Birthplace of the bossa nova, informally
- Bishop's locale
- Bit
- Bit in a breakfast bowl
- Bit in a horse's mouth?
- Bit in a nutrition bar
- Bit of a laugh
- Bit of acne, informally
- Bit of advice
- Bit of Braille
- Bit of cacao
- Bit of ceramic ware
- Bit of concert merch
- Bit of forensic evidence
- Bit of gig gear
- Bit of ink
- Bit of intel
- Bit of Morse code
- Bit of shorthand in some age cohorts
- Bit of spy gear, informally
- Bit of sunshine
- Bit of tailoring
- Bit of ticket info
- Bit of travel info, for short
- Bit of Uber info, for short
- Bitumen lookalike
- Bizarre
- Black ___
- Black goo
- "Black Jeopardy!" show, in brief
- "Black" or "Yellow" dog, familiarly
- Black-and-white wedding rental
- "Black-ish" airer
- "Black-ish" patriarch
- Blackjack play
- Blade that's pulled
- Blame (on)
- ___ Bleus, nickname for France's World Cup team
- Blight
- ___ blind
- "Blitzkrieg Bop" band
- Blog feed letters
- Blow air on
- Blue expanse
- Blue Moon, for one
- Blue state?
- Blue-necked bird
- Blue-winged bird
- "Blueprint" for life
- "___ Blues" (Beatles song)
- Blues' grp.
- Blunder
- Blvd. crosser
- ___ Bo (exercise regimen popularized via VHS tapes)
- Boarding datum, in brief
- Boarding pass info
- Boardroom bigwig, in brief
- Boars and bulls
- Boat propeller
- Boat's rear
- Bocce player's skill
- "___ bodkins!" (bygone oath)
- Body part exposed in a sandal
- Body part in the heart of "heart"
- Body part that can serve as a pencil holder
- Body part that may have a ring or a stud
- Body part that might "pop"
- Body part that might become "fat" after a fight
- Boggy place
- Bolo, e.g.
- Bolted some nuts down
- Bond
- Bonfire remains
- "Bonjour, ___ amis!"
- Book divisions: Abbr.
- Book fair group, for short
- Book parts: Abbr.
- Book reviewer, for short
- Booker T.'s backing band
- Booking, for short
- Boom sticks?
- Boomer at a concert
- Boot
- "Borderlands" director ___ Roth
- "Born" in Haiti
- Bosom buddy
- Boss, in Britain
- Boston's Mass ___
- Bother
- Botheration
- Bottom line figure
- Bottom line?
- Boulderer's safety item
- Bouncy part of a trampoline
- Bouvier ___ Flandres (Belgian dog breed)
- Bovine found in high-altitude regions
- Bowmaker's wood
- Box top
- Boxer Muhammad or Laila
- Boxing bout enders, for short
- Boxing champ Laila
- Boxing punch
- Boxing ref's decision
- Boxy transport
- "___ boy!"
- Bracketed disclaimer
- Brady bunch?: Abbr.
- Brain ___
- Branch
- Brand from Anheuser-Busch
- Brand lead-in to Caps or Balls
- Brand of bug spray with an exclamation point in its name
- Brand whose products often come with caps
- Brand with fleece-lined boots
- Brandy letters
- ___ Bravo (México/Tejas border)
- "Bravo!"
- Bread choice
- Bread for a corned beef sandwich
- Bread for a ham sandwich
- Bread for dipping
- "Break a ___!"
- Break down in tears
- Break ground, in a way
- Break off, as a relationship
- Breakfast beverages, for short
- Breakthrough cry
- Breakthrough K-pop group
- Brewed beverage
- Brewer's barrelful
- Brian in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- Brian of ambient music
- Bridal line
- Brief bit
- Brief letters?
- Brief moment
- Brief snooze
- Brightness measures, in brief
- Brilliant example
- Bring home
- Brit's bathroom
- Brita competitor
- British "facilities"
- British ___ (colonial rule of India)
- British actor and broadcaster Stephen
- British bathroom
- British isle
- British John
- British singer Rita
- British title
- Bro kin
- Bro's sibling
- Bro, e.g.
- Broad band?
- Broadband connection type, in brief
- Broadband connection, for short
- Broadband letters
- Broadcast
- Broadcast to squad cars, in brief
- Broadway actress Phillipa
- Broadway musical about the wives of Henry VIII
- Broadway show inits.
- Broadway star ___ Michele
- Broadway's ___-Manuel Miranda
- Broke bread
- "Brokeback Mountain" director Lee
- Bronx-born congresswoman elected in 2018, familiarly
- Brooding sort
- Broody genre
- Broody music genre
- Brooklyn Brewery's Special Effects, e.g., in brief
- Brooks in Hollywood
- Brooks of film
- Brother or sister, for short
- Brought together
- "___ Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter" (1965 #1 hit)
- ___ Brown, author of "The Da Vinci Code"
- Browns, on a scoreboard
- BT(W)
- Bub
- Bubble wrap sound
- Bucket list item?
- Bud
- Buddhism branch associated with gardens
- Buddy
- Buffalo's home: Abbr.
- Buffalo-to-Baltimore dir.
- Buffet stand vessel
- Buffet table item
- Buffoon
- Bug exterminator?
- Bugling game
- Bulb type, for short
- Bullet ___ (insect known for its painful sting)
- Bulls and bucks
- Bummed out
- Bump on the head, say?
- Bundle
- Bunk
- Bunny's bounce
- ___ Bunny, musician known as the "King of Latin Trap"
- ___ Burgundy, hotshot anchorman in "Anchorman"
- Buried
- Burj Khalifa's country, for short
- Burj Khalifa's home, in brief
- Burlesque accessory
- Burnable storage unit, in brief
- Burro
- Bus. page news
- Business address abbr.
- Business card abbr.
- Business ending
- Business with lockers
- Bussing on the street, e.g., in brief
- "But Daddy I Love ___" (Taylor Swift song)
- But, briefly
- Butcher's discard
- Butter square
- Butterfly on the ankle, say, informally
- "By Jove, that's it!"
- By way of
- Bygone "before"
- Bygone cousin of a kiwi
- Bygone org. for the Houston Oilers
- ___-C cable (computer connector)
- C-section sections
- C-store offering
- C.I.A. asset
- C.I.A. forerunner
- C7H5N3O6, for short
- Cabinet dept. since 1889
- Cable channel since 1981
- Cable channel that airs March Madness games
- Cable channel that awards V.M.A.s
- Cable channel with many reruns
- Cable co. that was purchased by AT&T in 1999
- Cable lead-in to TV
- Cable staple since 1972
- Cacophony
- Caesar of old comedy
- Calc. calculation
- Calculating
- Calif. M.L.B. team, on scoreboards
- California's Big ___
- California's capital, in some of its nicknames
- Call for a pass?
- Call from a kitten
- Call from an ump
- Call in a card game
- "Call Me Maybe" singer Carly ___ Jepsen
- Call to cruisers, for short
- Call, as a poker bet
- Called on one's birthday?
- Caller of balls and strikes
- Calling card, for short?
- Calls out on social media, slangily
- Calypso cousin
- Cambridge sch.
- Camel-colored
- Camera brand named after a goddess
- Camera inits.
- Camera spec
- Camera type, for short
- Camera type, in brief
- Camp bed
- Camper's foldout
- Campfire residue
- Can opener
- Canadian leaders, for short
- Canal entry
- Canapé topping
- Cancel
- Cancer research agcy.
- Candidacy for an entertainment award, informally
- Candy ___
- Candy holder for a trick-or-treater
- Candy in a dispenser
- Candy with collectible dispensers
- Canine warning
- ___ canto
- "Capisce?"
- ___ capita
- Capital of ancient Troy?
- Capital of Utah, in brief
- Capt.'s superior
- Captain's subordinate: Abbr.
- Capture
- Car brand with the Hummer E.V.
- Cara ___ (Italian term of affection)
- Carbon's atomic number
- ___ card
- Card game whose name is shouted
- Card game whose name is something players cry
- Card that may be hidden "up one's sleeve"
- Cardinal ___
- Cardinals legend Brock
- Cards
- Cards in a wallet or purse, informally
- Careful, this might be hot!
- Carefully monitored hosp. area
- Caribbean music genre
- Carnaval city, informally
- Carnaval locale, familiarly
- Carnival maker
- Caroline Kepnes thriller written partly in the second person
- Carp in a Japanese pond
- Carrier with a Flying Dutchman magazine
- Carry on
- Carry the ball in volleyball, e.g.
- ___ carte
- Carte preceder
- Cartesian conclusion
- Cartoon brawl sound effect
- Cash flow analyst, for short
- Cash on the Ginza
- Cask
- Cask wood
- Caspian or Mediterranean
- Cassette successors
- Cassiterite is a source of it
- Castaway's call
- Castaway's call for help
- Casting need
- Casual assent
- Casual refusal
- Casual turndown
- ___-cat
- Catch
- Catch red-handed
- Catch some rays
- Catch, as a criminal
- Catch, as a crook
- "Catch-22" topic
- Catches
- Catchy tune
- Caterer's coffee dispenser
- Cathcart's rank in "Catch-22": Abbr.
- Caught
- Cause a stink?
- Cause for overtime
- Cause of a boom
- Caustic cleaner
- Caustic paint stripper
- Cave-dwelling flier
- Caviar, essentially
- Cavity
- CBS drama starting in 2003
- Celebration between Xmas and M.L.K. Day
- Celebrity chef Garten
- Celestial sphere
- Cell letters
- Cell network letters
- Cell signal unit
- Cell's messenger material
- Cells in compound
- Cells that can be vitrified and preserved for future use
- Cellular data plan?
- Cellular messenger
- Cent : U.S. :: ___ : Japan
- Center of activity
- Center of operations
- Center of the solar system, with "the"
- Certain address, for short
- Certain care provider, for short
- Certain chip flavoring, informally
- Certain endurance race, in brief
- Certain fancy attire, for short
- Certain gender identity
- Certain Ivy Leaguer
- Certain shot, colloquially
- Certain sib
- "Certainly!"
- Chain email abbr.
- Chain that can symbolize friendship
- Chain that sells climbing gear
- Chalice
- Challenge from a hard-hit ground ball, perhaps
- Champiñones ___ plancha (Spanish dish)
- Chaney of classic horror
- Change the color of, as hair
- Channel for "Survivor" and "Big Brother"
- Channel for cinephiles
- Channel for old westerns
- Channel offering deals
- Channel similar to QVC
- Channel that pioneered 24-hour TV reporting
- Channel whose initials are hidden from left to right in the word CHANNEL
- Channel with the longtime slogan "We Know Drama"
- Chaps
- Charitable contributions, collectively
- ___ chart
- Chart-topper
- Chase, in a way
- Chat follower
- Chat___
- ChatGPT and Google Gemini, for two
- ChatGPT, Claude, etc.
- ChatGPT, for one
- Cheap shot?
- Checkmate in chess or gin in gin rummy
- Cheerful
- Cheerful person?
- Cheerios grain
- Chemical essential to cellular metabolism, for short
- Chemical suffix that indicates a double bond
- Chemist Lilly
- Chess legend Mikhail ___
- Chess pieces
- Chew on that!
- Chew the fat
- ___ chi
- ___ chi (Chinese martial art)
- ___-chic (sustainable fashion)
- Chicago airport code
- Chicago sights, for short
- Chicago slugger
- Chicago trains
- Chicago W.N.B.A. team
- Chicago-style pizza chain
- Chicago-to-Indianapolis dir.
- Chicken ___ king
- Chiding sound
- Chief prosecutors, in brief
- Child king of Egypt
- Chill in the air
- Chill, maybe
- China's largest ethnic group
- Chinese general on a menu
- Chinese revolutionary
- Chinese steamed bun
- Chinese surname transliterating "Zuo"
- Chinese zodiac creature
- ___ Chinmoy, 20th-century Indian spiritual leader
- "Chiseled" features
- "Chiseled" muscles
- Choler
- Chop (off)
- Chop down, as a tree
- Choreograph
- Christian ___
- Christmas carol contraction
- Christmas tree variety
- Chum
- Church fixture
- Church seat
- "Ciao!"
- Cigar residue
- Cigarette substance
- Cincinnati trio?
- Cinephile's cable choice
- Circus safety device
- Citrus portmanteau
- ___City
- City on Guanabara Bay, familiarly
- City with Carnival samba parades, informally
- Civil War prez, familiarly
- Clan
- Class ___
- Class for immigrants, in brief
- Class for some aspiring bilinguals, in brief
- Class for some recent arrivals, for short
- Class that may require a change of clothes
- Classic analog camera style
- Classic archery wood
- Classic British cars
- Classic cartoon dog with the catchphrase "You eediot!"
- Classic ’60s muscle car
- Clean Air Act org.
- Clean energy org. established by President Nixon
- Cleaning cloth
- Clear
- Clear as ___ (not clear)
- Clear stuff in a restaurant
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