| Pull with effort |
| Best-possible |
| 2000 Best Song Oscar winner |
| A dish best served cold |
| Aristotle's "best provision for old age |
| Acquire by effort |
| Animated TV character whose best friend is Boots |
| Carry with effort |
| Baltimore specialty / Effortless task / Move on all fours with the belly up |
| 2018 Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee Driver |
| Acquires through effort |
| Band best known for 1985's "Take on Me": Hyph. |
| An event to honor the best hospital patient? |
| Harry Potters best friend |
| Actor Jannings, winner of the first Best Actor Oscar |
| Surviving Milli Vanilli member [avxword.com is home to the best indie xwords - subscribe today] |
| Bestow |
| Abandon one's efforts, slangily |
| Charity effort |
| Acquired with little or no effort |
| Bestow benefit upon |
| A. J. ___, author of the best seller "The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World |
| 2005 Best Director Oscar winner Lee |
| American ___" (1999 midlife-crisis drama starring Kevin Spacey that won the Best Picture Oscar) |
| Actress who won a Best Actress Oscar as Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady": 2 wds. |
| 1960s self-help bestseller |
| A person's personal best, my boy? |
| 1997 best seller subtitled "Her True Story |
| Reclusive best-selling novelist |
| Alabaman who wrote the Best Novel of the Century, according to a 1999 Library Journal poll |