| Movie that was shot in "3-B" -- "three beers and it looks good" | 83 |
| Metaphorical philosophical conflict used as an album title by The Police, literally | 83 |
| Morrissey album featuring "We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful" | 83 |
| Mark who bought a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks from Ross Perot's son | 82 |
| Milibtary unit on leavbe this weekend and damnasure gonna take 'vantage of it? | 82 |
| Movie whose last lines are "Mediocrities everywhere ... I absolve you." | 81 |
| Maker of a dish Patton Oswalt called a "failure pile in a sadness bowl" | 81 |
| Mark ___-Baker (actor who played Larry Appleton on "Perfect Strangers") | 81 |
| Massachusetts city where Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote "The Scarlet Letter" | 81 |
| Movie title that describes what happened to the five long entries in this puzzle? | 81 |
| Mid-1990s look popularized by pale and emaciated models in black-and-white shoots | 81 |
| Madonna's announcement after her workout with the 3-time American League MVP? | 81 |
| Multiple Grammy winner who was a contestant on "Dancing With the Stars" | 81 |
| Movie mogul whom Forbes magazine once named the highest-paid man in entertainment | 81 |
| Mixed martial arts co. that recently aired its first event on national television | 81 |
| Message spelled out by punked Harvard fans at the 2004 Harvard-Yale football game | 81 |
| Many a ''Lord of the Rings'' extra (with ''New'') | 81 |
| Movie robot whose voice was made with an ARP 2600 analog synthesizer, familiarly | 80 |
| Massive mover in the Hoth battle sequence of "The Empire Strikes Back" | 80 |
| Movie character whose line "Walk this way" inspired the Aerosmith song | 80 |
| Mildly alcoholic Russian drink made from fermented bread (better than it sounds) | 80 |
| Moreno who was the second actress to win an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, and a Tony | 80 |
| Movie that may be remade again with Beyonce in the Gaynor/Garland/Streisand role | 80 |
| Maker of V8 juice, whose eight original ingredients are the theme of this puzzle | 80 |
| Movie good guys responsible for the circled squares in eight long puzzle answers | 80 |
| Member of the Green Mountain Boys who helped establish the University of Vermont | 80 |
| Movie for which Anna Magnani won an Oscar for Best Actress, with "The" | 80 |
| Mariah Carey "You'll finally see the truth. That ___ lies in you" | 79 |
| Mariano Rivera has had only one in his career (not surprisingly, he struck out) | 79 |
| Model who co-wrote the children's book "What Are You Hungry For?" | 79 |
| Mohawked actor whose voice was in "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" | 79 |
| Mascot for a soup vendor, or a soda company's expansion into selling drugs? | 79 |
| Morricone who scored "The Thing" and "A Fistful of Dollars" | 79 |
| Mathematician who was the subject of "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" | 79 |
| Most of "The Taming of the Shrew" characters, geographically speaking | 79 |
| Musician Dolby who returned in 2011 with "A Map of the Floating City" | 79 |
| Michelle who's the greatest action heroine of all time, per Rotten Tomatoes | 79 |
| Michael Jackson "it doesn't matter who's wrong or right" hit | 78 |
| Mad cow disease or, if you prefer a less off-putting clue, Indian trading org. | 78 |
| Movie with the refrain "I'm not even supposed to be here today!" | 78 |
| Most of the characters in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" | 78 |
| Middle Eastern resident who sounds like something Little Miss Muffet would eat | 78 |
| Mockingjay holding an arrow in a circle for "The Hunger Games," e.g. | 78 |
| Most recent player to win MVP, All-Star Game MVP, and Finals MVP in one season | 78 |
| My wife's third most-hated band (behind Big Country and Phil Collins solo) | 78 |
| Material my stepfather's old Ford Pinto was made of, or so it seemed to me | 78 |
| Murderer in P.D.Q. Bach's spoof opera "A Little Nightmare Music" | 78 |
| Movie co. behind "Wordplay" and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" | 78 |
| Marcel with the only audible line in Mel Brooks's "Silent Movie" | 78 |
| Making out ... or a hint to this puzzle's four hidden articles of clothing | 78 |
| Medieval poem about fate set to music in Orff's "Carmina Burana" | 78 |
| Mel Gibson's co-star in "Lethal Weapon 3" and "Ransom" | 78 |
| Motown star who wrote the lyrics for and sang "The Tears of a Clown" | 78 |
| Magical beings who deliver orgasms via neckwear-based autoerotic asphyxiation? | 78 |
| Minnesota's state fish, and a hint to all 12 border answers in this puzzle | 78 |
| Mr. Rosewater in Kurt Vonnegut's "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" | 77 |
| Master P's son who used to have "Lil'" in front of his name | 77 |
| Man refuses to supply photo on Internet dating service; ref cites him for ... | 77 |
| Manned space mission that gets carried out in the 1984 movie "2010" | 77 |
| Many people get one in the summer (and so do this puzzle's theme entries) | 77 |
| Mountaintop castle in "Game of Thrones" where Tyrion was imprisoned | 77 |
| Masked hero who debuted in the 1919 story "The Curse of Capistrano" | 77 |
| Movie star who said, "I always cry at weddings, especially my own" | 76 |
| Mythical figure represented in Vermeer's "The Art of Painting" | 76 |
| Mathematician who introduced the symbol e for the base of natural logarithms | 76 |
| Museum featuring the works mentioned above, which opened on October 21, 1959 | 76 |
| Mizrahi who groped Scarlett Johansson's breast at the 2006 Golden Globes | 76 |
| MMA fighter John (don't know if he's related to baseball player Mel) | 76 |
| Modern-day monarch who addresses her nation on Christmas annually, for short | 76 |
| Miniseries whose final episode was the 3rd-most-watched show in U.S. history | 76 |
| Many skiers use these when they [see diagonal starting in upper left corner] | 76 |
| Medical procedure done while reading "The Outcasts of Poker Flat?" | 76 |
| Mexican cooking ingredients called "flores de calabaza" in Spanish | 76 |
| Minor planets whose orbits are farther from the sun than the farthest planet | 76 |
| Mark who said "Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company" | 76 |
| Mean-sounding Elvis Costello solo album on NPR's Best Music of 2002 list | 76 |
| Musical with the song "Slide Some Oil to Me," with "The" | 76 |
| Modest Mouse "The ocean breathes salty, won't you carry ___?" | 75 |
| Member of the inaugural class of inductees to the National Toy Hall of Fame | 75 |
| Medium in which the Reverend Brendan Powell Smith builds his Bible dioramas | 75 |
| Money from a shark scattered in order in seven of this puzzle's answers | 75 |
| Mitt's, Michelle's, Herman's, Tim's and Rick's opponent | 75 |
| Mathematical field that includes the so-called "butterfly effect" | 75 |
| Mathematician Pierre whose "last theorem" took 358 years to prove | 75 |
| Midwestern city that's the title of a song in "The Music Man" | 75 |
| Monkees hit composed by Neil Diamond which was later covered by Smash Mouth | 75 |
| Michael who memorized the patterns of the "Press Your Luck" board | 75 |
| Mississippi petulantly observes it in tandem with Robert E. Lee's birth | 75 |
| Mascot for Sting, or a cookie company's expansion into precious metals? | 75 |
| Metaphorical talk show area of which each of the theme entries steers clear | 75 |
| MATURE, FUN-LOVING man, smoker, music lover. Come share a palatial home ... | 75 |
| Molecule key for studying evolutionary relationships between species: Abbr. | 75 |
| Movie character who says "The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of" | 75 |
| Many thoroughfares ... or what this puzzle's Across answers consist of? | 75 |
| Movie epic that's probably more than you ever wanted to know about poi? | 75 |
| Member of the 2007 Women's N.C.A.A. champion basketball team, for short | 75 |
| Mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the quintic equation | 74 |
| Movie with the tagline "The movie was fake.The mission was real" | 74 |
| Musketeer Salim imagined himself to be, in "Slumdog Millionaire" | 74 |
| Miami Dolphins Hall of Famer who co-hosted "American Gladiators" | 74 |