| Missouri band that tried to "shake things up" | 55 |
| Missouri band that failed to "shake things up" | 56 |
| Missive whose meaning is often blurred by autocorrect | 53 |
| Mississippi university that's home to the Fighting Okra | 59 |
| Mississippi town in "In the Heat of the Night" | 56 |
| Mississippi site of Machine Gun Kelly's last known bank robbery | 67 |
| Mission that figured into "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" | 65 |
| Missile that sank a British destroyer in the Falklands War | 58 |
| Missed the bus, forgot lunch, argued with the boss, etc. | 56 |
| Miss ___ Quested ("A Passage to India" character) | 59 |
| Miss ___ Kette (bird that teaches manners on "Barney") | 64 |
| Miss ___ Evans of McCullers's "Ballad of the Sad Cafe" | 68 |
| Miss ___ (psychic who totally faked that Jamaican accent) | 57 |
| Miss ___ (late-night psychic in 1990s TV commercials) | 53 |
| Miss ___ ("Pee-Wee's Playhouse" character) | 56 |
| Miss Scrumptious of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" | 55 |
| Miss Havisham's ward in "Great Expectations" | 58 |
| Miss Daisy's driver in "Driving Miss Daisy" | 57 |
| Miss America (1959) who became a film and TV actress, Mary Ann ___ | 66 |
| Misleadingly named wasp that damages American Beauties | 54 |
| Mischievous spirit in ''The Tempest'' | 53 |
| Mischief-makers (you'll find seven of them in the answer grid) | 66 |
| Misanthrope who says "We are all born mad. Some remain so" | 68 |
| Mirna's smaller teammate in "The Amazing Race 5" | 62 |
| Miranda who portrayed Eowyn in "The Lord of the Rings" | 64 |
| Miracles: "You've Really Got a Hold ___" | 54 |
| Mint-family plant with bright-colored leaves and blue flowers | 61 |
| Minstrel show figure who banters with the interlocutor | 54 |
| Minor-leaguer whose team is named after a Coney Island roller coaster | 69 |
| Minor league team with a locomotive in one of its logos | 55 |
| Minor league hoops org. for the Idaho Stampede and Dakota Wizards | 65 |
| Minnesota Twin who won seven American League batting titles | 59 |
| Minnesota Fats's player in "The Hustler" | 54 |
| Minnesota city where the first Target store opened [Spain] | 58 |
| Minnesota city where part of "Fargo" was filmed | 57 |
| Minnesota city that shares a harbor with Superior, Wis. | 55 |
| Minnesota city SW of Minneapolis so named for its fertile soil | 62 |
| Minnelli with a brilliant role on "Arrested Development" | 66 |
| Minimum number required to transact business legally | 52 |
| Mini-Me portrayer in the Austin Powers movies born on January 1, 1969 | 69 |
| Ming, the oldest animal ever discovered (400+ years), was one | 61 |
| Ming's 7'6" and Bryant's 6'6", e.g.: Abbr. | 68 |
| Ming ___, of public television's show "Simply Ming" | 65 |
| Mineral found in igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks | 60 |
| Mine has Thin Lizzy's "Jailbreak" on it | 53 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence song about going after something? | 58 |
| Milwaukee point guard moonlighting as a quarterback? | 52 |
| Milton's "___ the Morning of Christ's Nativity" | 65 |
| Milton called it "The flood of deadly hate" | 53 |
| Milo of Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet" | 60 |
| Milli___ (the amount of beauty required to launch one ship) | 59 |
| Millionairess portrayer in "The Millionairess" | 56 |
| Miller's "S.N.L." "Weekend Update" successor | 68 |
| Millennia-old Jordanian city that's a World Heritage Site | 61 |
| Millan who's known as "the Dog Whisperer" | 55 |
| Milky Way phenomenon believed to occur almost weekly | 52 |
| Military unit comprised of Getz, Laurel, Musial and Mikita? | 59 |
| Military org. with the motto "Per ardua ad astra" | 59 |
| Military mess assignment, and this puzzle's title | 53 |
| Military medal featuring George Washington's profile | 56 |
| Military intelligence, e.g., according to George Carlin | 55 |
| Military haircut that doesn't leave a mark on the scalp? | 60 |
| Military group whose code word was "Geronimo" | 55 |
| Military detention base in many campaigns, informally | 53 |
| Military computer built under the codename "Project PX" | 65 |
| Military branch with the motto "Semper Paratus" | 57 |
| Military base that is home to Cuba's only McDonalds, familiarly | 67 |
| Military allotment: this puzzle's is 30 "units" | 61 |
| Military alliance that still doesn't include Russia | 55 |
| Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong et al.? | 52 |
| Milady de Winter's husband, in "The Three Musketeers" | 67 |
| Mil. title literally meaning "holding a place" | 56 |
| Mil. group with the slogan "Until Every One Comes Home" | 65 |
| Mil. branch whose slogan was "Per Ardua ad Astra" | 59 |
| Mil. alliance with official languages of English and French | 59 |
| Mike's pal in "For Better or for Worse" | 53 |
| Mike who produced "Around the World in 80 Days" | 57 |
| Mike who directed "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" | 65 |
| Mike in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" | 59 |
| Mike "Boogie" who won "Big Brother: All Stars" | 66 |
| Miedaner's "The ___ of Anna Klane": 1977 | 54 |
| Midyear reaction by those who forget their sunglasses? | 54 |
| Midwestern city with the motto "Smart Choice" | 55 |
| Midwest university with 23 team wrestling championships | 55 |
| Midwest metropolis--it has a view of Canada to the south! | 57 |
| Midwest college town that was an Underground Railroad stop | 58 |
| Midwest city whose name means "hospitality" | 53 |
| Midwest city which lends its name to a Republican straw poll | 60 |
| Midwest city in the middle of the I-70/I-71/I-75 triangle | 57 |
| Midler and Keaton's costar in "The First Wives Club" | 66 |
| Mideast president who wrote "The Battle for Peace," 1981 | 66 |
| Mideast city whose name, coincidentally, is an anagram of ARABS | 63 |
| Mideast capital whose name means "the big tree" | 57 |
| Middle properties on the four sides of a Monopoly board: Abbr. | 62 |
| Middle of an Aeschylus trilogy, with "The" | 52 |
| Middle name on the cover of the 2012 album "Kiss" | 59 |
| Middle name of ''The Wizard of Menlo Park'' | 59 |
| Middle name in the title of a 1979 Best Picture nominee | 55 |
| Middle distance runner Steve who won Olympic gold in 1980 | 57 |
| Middle America, to some snooty intercoastal travelers | 53 |