| Mississippi town in "In the Heat of the Night" | 56 |
| Make two hands out of one in this puzzle's card game | 56 |
| Missouri band that failed to "shake things up" | 56 |
| Marianne Faithfull "Conversation on a Bar ___" | 56 |
| Marryin' Sam portrayer in "Li'l Abner" | 56 |
| Monument inscribed "Sufferin' succotash!"? | 56 |
| Measure that led to a 1773 Boston Harbor 'party' | 56 |
| Manti who got awfully defensive when asked if he was gay | 56 |
| Michael Jackson: "___ Don't Care About Us" | 56 |
| Mechanic's job, literally illustrated in this puzzle | 56 |
| Modern coinage meaning intuition without regard to facts | 56 |
| Mitt Romney is not one, though you might have assumed so | 56 |
| Morris ___, author of "Shoes of the Fisherman" | 56 |
| Moderator of a panel including Joy, Elisabeth and Sherri | 56 |
| Material for Voldemort's wand, in Harry Potter books | 56 |
| Miss ___ ("Pee-Wee's Playhouse" character) | 56 |
| Mag formerly titled ''Modern Maturity'' | 55 |
| Makers of the Giant Rubber Band and Dehydrated Boulders | 55 |
| Month in which Moses is said to have been born and died | 55 |
| Melville's "grand, ungodly, god-like man" | 55 |
| Meg's ''Prelude to a Kiss'' co-star | 55 |
| Midwestern city with the motto "Smart Choice" | 55 |
| Mobutu's across-the-border counterpart of the 1970s | 55 |
| Member of the The Be Sharps on "The Simpsons" | 55 |
| Mythical realm on one end of the rainbow bridge Bifrost | 55 |
| Menu phrase often misused after "served with" | 55 |
| Maxine portrayer in "The Night of the Iguana" | 55 |
| Member of baseball's "Murderers' Row" | 55 |
| McGarrett's command to a deputized Hawaiian singer? | 55 |
| Musical with the song "Why Should I Wake Up?" | 55 |
| Musical that opens with the song "Willkommen" | 55 |
| Millan who's known as "the Dog Whisperer" | 55 |
| Mother Love Bone "___ Dancer/Crown of Thorns" | 55 |
| Mr. Spacely's first name on "The Jetsons" | 55 |
| Matt stuck to Greg Kinnear in a Farrelly Brothers movie | 55 |
| Mother of the worm Slimey, on "Sesame Street" | 55 |
| Man's nickname that is German for "level" | 55 |
| Musician who co-founded the Long Now Foundation charity | 55 |
| Mel Blanc's says "That's all, folks!" | 55 |
| Monroe's co-star in "The Seven Year Itch" | 55 |
| Much-hated episode of "How I Met Your Mother" | 55 |
| Morgan Freeman's role in "Bruce Almighty" | 55 |
| Male name from the Hebrew for "without honor" | 55 |
| Musical with the song "The Honeymoon is Over" | 55 |
| Marty Feldman's "Young Frankenstein" role | 55 |
| Model who dropped Abdulmajid from her professional name | 55 |
| Magazine with an annual "500|5000" conference | 55 |
| Mythical queen of Thebes who raised her nephew Dionysus | 55 |
| Midwest university with 23 team wrestling championships | 55 |
| Marvin Gaye's ''Let's Get ___'' | 55 |
| Macy Gray hit from the album "On How Life Is" | 55 |
| Mitchell who wrote and sang "Chelsea Morning" | 55 |
| Musical inspired by "The Taming of the Shrew" | 55 |
| Mr. Chips's class in "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" | 55 |
| Muppets song "There's a ___ Want to Know" | 55 |
| Madonna's role in "A League of Their Own" | 55 |
| Measured base to peak, the world's tallest mountain | 55 |
| Magazine with a "Best Places to Live" feature | 55 |
| Marilyn who sang Berlin's "Show Business" | 55 |
| Measure that resulted in multilingual labeling on goods | 55 |
| Military alliance that still doesn't include Russia | 55 |
| Manet's "The Luncheon on the Grass," e.g. | 55 |
| Military intelligence, e.g., according to George Carlin | 55 |
| Middle name in the title of a 1979 Best Picture nominee | 55 |
| McCartney "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" album | 55 |
| Musical based on Puccini's "La Bohème" | 55 |
| Memo about where tariffs are imposed on incoming ships? | 55 |
| Make a change in a restaurant's postmeal offerings? | 55 |
| Mid-American Conference team whose mascot is a kangaroo | 55 |
| Movie about Othello looking out Desdemona's window? | 55 |
| Many a "Law & Order" character, for short | 55 |
| Money owed to a company, as shown on their spreadsheets | 55 |
| Memoirs of an angry French chef (with "The")? | 55 |
| Minnesota city that shares a harbor with Superior, Wis. | 55 |
| Movie disc format that's readable, but not erasable | 55 |
| Miami Heat player who was the 2006 N.B.A. Finals M.V.P. | 55 |
| Make, as money + a letter + sheltered bay + chopper = ? | 55 |
| MTV musical honors show held in the Netherlands in 2013 | 55 |
| Music player holding songs about busting out of prison? | 55 |
| Maker of violins used by Paganini, Heifetz, and Perlman | 55 |
| Mrs. Norris in the "Harry Potter" books, e.g. | 55 |
| Metal between osmium and platinum on the periodic table | 55 |
| Monogram of the author of "The Biglow Papers" | 55 |
| Macchio/Morita martial arts movie, with "The" | 55 |
| Michael who wrote the 1975 best seller “Power!” | 55 |
| Martial arts film that involves audience participation? | 55 |
| Musical featuring "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" | 55 |
| Make with "December to remember" sales events | 55 |
| Marilyn who sang lead on "Wedding Bell Blues" | 55 |
| Movement from Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony | 55 |
| Man, according to a longtime Desmond Morris best-seller | 55 |
| Maria portrayer in the "West Side Story" film | 55 |
| Movie for which Peter Finch won an Oscar for Best Actor | 55 |
| Morris West book about the papacy, with "The" | 55 |
| Money to spring a Ukrainian figure skater from the pen? | 55 |
| Mixture with equal parts flour, butter, eggs, and sugar | 55 |
| More aware about Olympics' first discus champ (2,6) | 55 |
| Minor league team with a locomotive in one of its logos | 55 |
| Movie for which Jack Lemmon won an Oscar for Best Actor | 55 |
| Maurice who wrote "Where the Wild Things Are" | 55 |