| ___ matter of fact | 18 |
| ___ Matters (broadcasting watchdog) | 35 |
| ___ Matto | 9 |
| ___ Matto (duo with the 1997 EP "Super Relax") | 56 |
| ___ Mau | 7 |
| ___ Maul (sci-fi villain) | 25 |
| ___ Mauler (Dempsey) | 20 |
| ___ Maupassant | 14 |
| ___ Mauro (lunar plain) | 23 |
| ___ Maverick, Jack Kelly role | 29 |
| ___ maw (roseate tern) | 22 |
| ___ Mawddwy, peak in Wales | 26 |
| ___ Mawr | 8 |
| ___ Mawr (liberal arts college) | 31 |
| ___ Mawr (Pennsylvania college) | 31 |
| ___ Mawr (Philly suburb) | 24 |
| ___ Mawr College | 16 |
| ___ Mawr, Pa. | 13 |
| ___ max | 7 |
| ___ Max, Mel Gibson role | 24 |
| ___ Maxima (early Roman sewer) | 30 |
| ___ maximi (butt muscles, scientifically) | 41 |
| ___ Maxwell, memorable hostess | 30 |
| ___ May (mortgage group) | 24 |
| ___ May Clampett | 16 |
| ___ May Clampett ("Beverly Hillbillies" daughter) | 59 |
| ___ May Clampett of "The Beverly Hillbillies" | 55 |
| ___ May Clampett of 1960s TV | 28 |
| ___ May Clampett of 60's TV | 31 |
| ___ May in "Tobacco Road" | 35 |
| ___ May Lester of "Tobacco Road" | 42 |
| ___ May of "The Beverly Hillbillies" | 46 |
| ___ May of "Tobacco Road" | 35 |
| ___ May Oliver | 14 |
| ___ May, in "Tobacco Road" | 36 |
| ___ May, surrogate mother for Spider-Man | 40 |
| ___ Mayer (wiener maker) | 24 |
| ___ mays (Indian corn) | 22 |
| ___ Mère Église, France | 30 |
| ___ Méditerranée | 22 |
| ___ mémoire | 14 |
| ___ McAn (shoe-store chain) | 27 |
| ___ McAn shoes | 14 |
| ___ McCawley, Ben Affleck's role in "Pearl Harbor" | 64 |
| ___ McCheese (former fast-food character) | 41 |
| ___ McCorvey ("Jane Roe" in Roe v. Wade) | 50 |
| ___ McCoy | 9 |
| ___ McDuck | 10 |
| ___ McEntire of music | 21 |
| ___ McFly of "Back to the Future" | 43 |
| ___ McGarrett, who said, "Book 'em, Danno!" | 57 |
| ___ McGarry (Posthumus vice president elect on "The West Wing") | 73 |
| ___ McGarry, chief of staff on "The West Wing" | 56 |
| ___ McMuffin | 12 |
| ___ McNally (atlas publisher) | 29 |
| ___ McNutt of comics | 20 |
| ___ me | 6 |
| ___ Me (Requiem Mass movement) | 30 |
| ___ me impune lacessit | 22 |
| ___ me tangere | 14 |
| ___ me tangere (''touch me not'') | 49 |
| ___ me tangere (hands off!) | 27 |
| ___ me tangere (something off-limits) | 37 |
| ___ me tangere (touch-me-not) | 29 |
| ___ Me! | 7 |
| ___ meal (cooks) | 16 |
| ___ meal (forego lunch) | 23 |
| ___ mean square (statistics calculation) | 40 |
| ___ means | 9 |
| ___ means (certainly not) | 25 |
| ___ means (certainly) | 21 |
| ___ means (not at all) | 22 |
| ___ means possible | 18 |
| ___ means: certainly not | 24 |
| ___ measure | 11 |
| ___ meat | 8 |
| ___ mecum | 9 |
| ___ mecum (guidebook) | 21 |
| ___ mecum (handbook) | 20 |
| ___ mecum (manual) | 18 |
| ___ Med | 7 |
| ___ media (middle course) | 25 |
| ___ media (middle way) | 22 |
| ___ medica | 10 |
| ___ medica (physician's treatise) | 37 |
| ___ medical | 11 |
| ___ medicine | 12 |
| ___ medicine (type of jurisprudence) | 36 |
| ___ mediocritas (golden mean) | 29 |
| ___ meeny miney mo | 18 |
| ___ meet | 8 |
| ___ meet (eke out) | 18 |
| ___ meeting | 11 |
| ___ Meeuwtje, Minuit's ship | 31 |
| ___ Megiddo (city of ancient Palestine) | 39 |
| ___ Meier, creator of the "Civilization" video game series | 68 |
| ___ mein | 8 |
| ___ Meir | 8 |
| ___ Meir Tower, Israel's first skyscraper | 45 |
| ___ Melba | 9 |