- BEST
- Old-time actress Edna
- Nonpareil
- Tops
- Defeat
- Optimal
- A+
- Beat
- Top
- Common email sign-off
- One-up
- Top-level
- Top, in two senses
- Be ___ (low-effort First Lady campaign)
- Highest-quality
- Oscar-night word
- Cheers alternative
- Like a winner
- Like the champ
- See 39-Across
- Five-star
- Beatle drummer before Starr
- Outcompete
- Like a 63 Across?
- Pre-Starr Beatle
- Cream of the crop
- Award-category word
- Word before boy or man
- Top-rate
- Having no match
- What a well-wisher may give someone
- Like some wishes
- What experts know
- Top or tops
- Number one
- Sunday ___ (finery)
- Top of the heap
- Finest
- First-rate
- Unsurpassed
- Part of TCBY
- Top-shelf
- Word before friend or seller
- Of the highest quality
- Primo
- Gold medal-winning
- Greatest
- Blue-ribbon word
- Most outstanding
- Word on a blue ribbon
- Excelling all others
- Prize-winning
- Top of the line
- Foremost
- Outdo
- Word in an award category
- Unexcelled
- Like the blue ribbon winner
- Second to none
- #1
- Oscars word
- You're the ___
- Sincerely alternative
- ___ practices
- Superlative
- First place
- ___ wishes
- Of top quality
- It was the ___ of times...: Dickens
- Like all-stars
- Sunday garb?
- Sunday clothing?
- Most advantageous
- Superior
- __ in Show: 2000 film
- More than better
- Superlatively good
- Type of bet
- Outrun, say
- Starr predecessor
- Top-quality
- __ in Show
- At the top of the heap
- Blue ribbon-worthy
- Letter sign-off
- As good as it gets
- Gold medalist, vis-à-vis competitors
- See 88-Down
- Oscar category word
- __ in Show: dog prize
- See 44-Down
- Unsurpassed, or surpass
- Cream
- Leading
- Highest in quality
- Oscar adjective
- With 51-Down, tops
- Correspondence sign-off
- Numero uno, with "the"
- Award adjective
- __ man
- Yours truly alternative
- Common awards word
- Oscars category adjective
- Outplay
- Awards adjective
- Brief email sign-off
- The "B" of BFF
- Vanquish
- Most suitable
- Of the highest grade
- Inferior to none
- Word on an Oscar
- Most desirable
- Optimum condition
- Oscar superlative
- To the highest degree
- Topnotch
- Kindest regards
- Tops in quality
- A-one
- Finest possible
- Top-rated
- Most helpful
- Outperform
- Film-award word
- Letter ender, perhaps
- Word on Oscars
- Letter closer
- Awards show superlative
- Crème de la crème
- Overcome
- Top-ranked
- Unsurpassable
- Level effort
- Common letter closer
- Place higher than
- Ultimate effort
- Most favorable
- Take down
- Outclass
- Unimprovable
- Word with boy or man
- Brief letter closing
- Meriting medals
- Award-worthy
- Win out over
- With 47-Down, what the films in this puzzle are nominated for
- The ___ Is Yet to Come
- With 21-Across, theme of this puzzle
- Worst.
- Actions ___ discover man.—Pope.
- Most.
- Tiptop.
- Largest.
- Utmost.
- Actress Edna.
- The top.
- Edna of the theatre.
- First grade.
- Finest clothes.
- Surpass.
- Edna or Herbert.
- Matchless.
- One's finest clothes.
- The ___ is yet to be.
- The March Hare's "___ butter."
- Most excellent.
- Outstrip.
- Par excellence.
- Prime.
- Excelling all.
- In the highest degree.
- Elite
- ___ bower (spare anchor)
- Most choice.
- The most one can do.
- All for the ___.
- Excel.
- Optimum.
- Defeat or excel.
- Most productive of good.
- Supreme
- Edna of stage
- Witness of a sort, with 50 Across
- Kind of man
- Edna of theater
- It's yet to be, to Browning
- Kind of seller
- Superfine
- Foot to put forward
- Girl or seller
- Met basso
- Father Knows ___
- British actress: 1900–74
- Outscore
- Better than better
- ___ Foot Forward
- Carter's "Why Not the ___?"
- Co-discoverer of insulin
- Outwit
- Worst, in a way
- Kind of man or seller
- Drummer Pete
- Trounce
- Overpower
- Insurance writer A.M._____
- Letter closing
- Numero uno
- Whip
- Bet or buy lead-in
- Informal letter signoff
- Oscar word
- Sunday ___
- With 47-Across, Academy Award category
- Rating a blue ribbon
- Taking the blue ribbon
- Informal letter closing
- Top spot
- Eclipse
- Oscar title starter
- Trump
- ___ in Show (Westminster prize)
- New York Times ___-seller list (prestigious roster of literary works since 1942)
- ___ Actress (Oscar category that Halle Berry was the first African-American woman to win in 2002)
- With 10-Down, favored the most
- A-number-one
- Start of the title for every Oscar
- With "in" and 25-Down, blue ribbon earner
- First word in every Academy Award category
- Casual sign-off in a letter
- Finish ahead of
- Outduel, e.g.
- Common email sign-off word
- Part of BFF
- Worst in a competition
- Alternative to "Yours truly"
- Winning a blue ribbon
- ___ Picture (Oscars category)
- ___ in show (canine award)
- ___ in Show
- Word before Actor and Actress at the Oscars
- Lead-in to "by" or "Buy"
- Word etched on most Oscar statuettes
- Word in most Academy Award titles
- Choice
- Compilation word
- TV's 'Father Knows _____'
- Unmatched
- Foo Fighters "___ of You"
- Pete from the Beatles
- It's for the ___ Straylight Run
- Original Beatles drummer Pete
- Vanessa Williams "Save the ___ for Last"
- Paramount
- __ in Show (movie picked as one of 2000's top 10 by the American Film Institute)
- Worst or finest
- Word in most ESPY Award categories
- Common e-mail valediction
- GOAT
- It was the ___ of times, it was the worst of times
- E-mail sign-off
- Hit Me With Your _____ Shot
- Get the better of
- Superlative of good
- Brightest's cohort
- Champ
- Overthrow
- Outsmart
- Ten recipient
- Brightest cohort
- How father knows
- Deserving a blue ribbon
- What father knows?
- Good's superlative
- It's better than better (with "the")
- Word used when there is none better?
- It has none better
- It's better than better
- Ultimately better?
- Friendly email sign-off
- Least bad
- Oscars adjective
- Most optimal
- The "B" in BFF
- I wish you the ___
- Better than the rest
- ___-case scenario
- Ride starter
- Most qualified
- Type of man or boy
- Conquer
- Surpassing all others
- Better superlative
- Drummer replaced by Starr
- Oscars category word
- Pete, the Beatles' drummer before Starr
- Worthy of a blue ribbon
- Blue-ribbon
- Oscars superlative
- The ___ (Tina Turner hit)
- You're My ___ Friend (Queen song)
- Opposite of worst
- Word in a Tony Award
- It happens to the ___ of us
- Good, better, ___
- Simply the ___ (Tina Turner hit)
- GOATed
- Try your ___!
- *They're thick as thieves
- With 52 Across, one who may give a wedding speech
- Triumph over
- One-word letter closing
- Academy Awards word
- Oscar category adjective
- Surpass, or unsurpassed
