| Melinda Caroll "___ the Garden of Your Mind" | 54 |
| McFarlane who spawned the comic book "Spawn" | 54 |
| Macy Gray "I ___ to say goodbye and I choke" | 54 |
| Mean crossword clue writer's challenge to solvers? | 54 |
| Magazine with a "Cheers & Jeers" section | 54 |
| Mercutio's killer, in "Romeo and Juliet" | 54 |
| Merger that followed soon after the Suez crisis: Abbr. | 54 |
| Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas ___ pipe" | 54 |
| Magazine that stops you from dancing to a Madonna hit? | 54 |
| Maine radio station whose call letters spell a pronoun | 54 |
| Musical drama that tells the tale of a sausage casing? | 54 |
| Musical featuring "The Way He Makes Me Feel" | 54 |
| Michelle of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" | 54 |
| Music genre heard in the film "The Big Easy" | 54 |
| Marge's father-in-law on "The Simpsons" | 53 |
| Musical with the song "The Gods Love Nubia" | 53 |
| Musical with the song "Radames' Letter" | 53 |
| Mailer's subject in ''The Fight'' | 53 |
| Martin who won a Tony in "My Favorite Year" | 53 |
| MacLiesh said it "should not mean / But be" | 53 |
| Mischievous spirit in ''The Tempest'' | 53 |
| Musical act whose popularity was highest in the 1980s | 53 |
| Means of execution for favored criminals in antiquity | 53 |
| Moussorgsky's "Pictures ___ Exhibition" | 53 |
| Massive walker in "The Empire Strikes Back" | 53 |
| Marilu Henner's role on "Evening Shade" | 53 |
| Mr. Bumble's position in "Oliver Twist" | 53 |
| Manager who led both the Yankees and Mets to pennants | 53 |
| Mardi Gras destination (with ''The'') | 53 |
| Musical based on "The Once and Future King" | 53 |
| Measure used for "a girl's best friend" | 53 |
| Main monster in "Where the Wild Things Are" | 53 |
| Makeup of Martha's Vineyard's Gay Head Cliffs | 53 |
| Miss ___ (late-night psychic in 1990s TV commercials) | 53 |
| Musical character who sings "One Last Kiss" | 53 |
| Mag with an award for Fun Fearless Female of the Year | 53 |
| Metropolitan region that includes India's capital | 53 |
| McClurg from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 53 |
| Mastroianni's costar in "La Dolce Vita" | 53 |
| Made up for the deficiencies of, with "out" | 53 |
| Manning who has won multiple Super Bowl M.V.P. awards | 53 |
| Mount Saint ___, fourth-highest peak in North America | 53 |
| Morlocks' victims in "The Time Machine" | 53 |
| Member of the U.N. since 1991 and the E.U. since 2004 | 53 |
| Mountain whose name in Greek means "I burn" | 53 |
| Mathematician who introduced the function symbol f(x) | 53 |
| Musical with the song "High Flying, Adored" | 53 |
| McGregor of the crappy "Star Wars" prequels | 53 |
| Major lending org. after the subprime mortgage crisis | 53 |
| Musical with the number "Bye Bye Blackbird" | 53 |
| Mason Williams' ''Classical ___'' | 53 |
| Movie for which Denzel Washington won his first Oscar | 53 |
| Machine that can be set to talk like a British butler | 53 |
| Musical that featured the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies | 53 |
| Musical with the song "My Cup Runneth Over" | 53 |
| Marvin Gaye's ''Can ___ Witness'' | 53 |
| Massey of "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" | 53 |
| Mine has Thin Lizzy's "Jailbreak" on it | 53 |
| Music company known for compilations advertised on TV | 53 |
| Martin who won an Oscar for his 1994 Lugosi portrayal | 53 |
| Martin of ''Crimes and Misdemeanors'' | 53 |
| Monty's co-star in "A Place in the Sun" | 53 |
| Mother of Chip, Dot, Ditto, and Trixie, in the comics | 53 |
| Marion who played Aunt Clara on "Bewitched" | 53 |
| Member of an organization in many conspiracy theories | 53 |
| Man's name that's Latin for "honey" | 53 |
| More than 70% of its population lives in Clark County | 53 |
| Morticia, to Fester, on "The Addams Family" | 53 |
| McAuliffe's famous retort to the Nazis: Dec. 1944 | 53 |
| Meredith's "The ___ of Richard Feverel" | 53 |
| Man's name meaning "One who hears well" | 53 |
| Mystery writer who created the character Kate Fansler | 53 |
| Most of the Western Hemisphere (with "the") | 53 |
| Made "talent" from "latent," e.g. | 53 |
| Musical that includes "The Ballad of Booth" | 53 |
| Man for whom Miss Liberty's island was once named | 53 |
| Means of locomotion in Sandburg's "Fog" | 53 |
| Middle America, to some snooty intercoastal travelers | 53 |
| Magazine that summarizes the contents ofsome cookies? | 53 |
| Mrs. Astor's set ÷ Lakers + Tarkington novel = | 53 |
| Military detention base in many campaigns, informally | 53 |
| Mexican version of a Fonda film, with "The" | 53 |
| Magazine that celebrated its sesquicentennial in 2000 | 53 |
| Military mess assignment, and this puzzle's title | 53 |
| Music in an updated version of "Pagliacci"? | 53 |
| Movie about sports stars who don't use deodorant? | 53 |
| Meme caption with Captain Picard and a Singer machine | 53 |
| Maximum liquid volume per traveler allowed by the TSA | 53 |
| Musical featuring "Hernando's Hideaway" | 53 |
| Mrs. ___ ("Beauty and the Beast" character) | 53 |
| Material from which the ring of the Nibelung was made | 53 |
| Mr. Mojo ____ (anagrammatic nickname of Jim Morrison) | 53 |
| Mr. Mojo ___ (anagrammatic nickname for Jim Morrison) | 53 |
| Many-stringed lute of India that is played with a bow | 53 |
| Mr. Hansen's mellow outing "___ Change" | 53 |
| Mollusk named for its pair of long earlike appendages | 53 |
| McCullough's "The Path Between the ___" | 53 |
| Movie title often spelled with a number in the middle | 53 |
| Mixed drink with cognac, triple sec, and citrus juice | 53 |
| More than a quarter of the earth's crust, by mass | 53 |