Answer:

ben

Answer	Crossword Clue
BEN	Gentle bear
BEN	Blue or Cross
BEN	Director Stiller

BEN	TV's Matlock
BEN	Writer Hecht
BEN	Big ...
BEN	Hogan or Franklin
BEN	Lomond or Nevis
BEN	"Argo" star Affleck
BEN	Golfer Hogan
BEN	Stein or Stiller

BEN	Franklin
BEN	Movie rat
BEN	Vereen of "Roots"
BEN	Jerry's partner
BEN	Hogan of golf
BEN	Fed head Bernanke
BEN	Folds in music
BEN	Stiller or Silverstone

BEN	Willy Loman's brother
BEN	Scotland's ... Nevis
BEN	"The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti" painter Shahn
BEN	"Volpone" playwright Jonson
BEN	"Son of," in Hebrew names
BEN	Gunn in "Treasure Island"
BEN	Actor Kingsley
BEN	Actor Affleck

BEN	Golfer Crenshaw
BEN	Oscar winner Kingsley
BEN	"The Graduate" hero
BEN	Poor Richard, really
BEN	"Big" London landmark
BEN	Son of, in Hebrew names
BEN	"Gentle .."
BEN	Cross or Affleck

BEN	Inventor Franklin
BEN	Little Joe's dad
BEN	"Big" London clock
BEN	Deadpan Stein
BEN	Gazzara or Stiller