| Merger that followed soon after the Suez crisis: Abbr. | 54 |
| Meryl's "Bridges of Madison County" costar | 56 |
| Meryl's co-star in "The Devil Wears Prada" | 56 |
| Message indicating "adult beverages not supplied" | 59 |
| Message that shows your car's warning system is joking with you? | 68 |
| Message written in the sky by the Wicked Witch of the West | 58 |
| Messing around the "Will & Grace" set? | 52 |
| Messing with Eric McCormack on the "Will & Grace" set | 67 |
| Metal band whose last album was "Reinventing the Steel" | 65 |
| Metal band with the 1999 triple platinum album "Issues" | 65 |
| Metal band with the 2009 album "Wavering Radiant" | 59 |
| Metal band with the classic album "Rust in Peace" | 59 |
| Metal between osmium and platinum on the periodic table | 55 |
| Metal subgenre characterized by lyrics dealing with blood and guts | 66 |
| Metallic sound, or a brand of grapefruit soda (Tribute #11) | 59 |
| Metallica documentary "___ Kind of Monster" | 53 |
| Metallica song parodied in a "Shreds" video on Youtube | 64 |
| Metallica's Diamond Head cover on "Garage Inc." | 61 |
| Meteorologist who inexcusably neglected to say we needed umbrellas? | 67 |
| Method for two lanes of traffic interleaving into one | 53 |
| Metropolitan region that includes India's capital | 53 |
| Mets reliever Heilman who got the loss in Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS | 65 |
| Mexican emperor who imposes his "revenge" on travellers | 65 |
| Mexican free-tailed ___ (state symbol for Texas and Oklahoma) | 61 |
| Mexican vacation destination for Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson | 62 |
| Mexican version of a Fonda film, with "The" | 53 |
| Mexican's emphatic answer to 'Were you napping'? | 60 |
| Mexican-born "Sports Illustrated" swimsuit model | 58 |
| Miami Heat player who was the 2006 N.B.A. Finals M.V.P. | 55 |
| Michael and Sonny's brother in "The Godfather" | 60 |
| Michael Caine's role in "Hannah and Her Sisters" | 62 |
| Michael Chiklis's role on "The Commish," Tony ___ | 63 |
| Michael Chiklis's role on "The Shield" | 52 |
| Michael Crichton novel (with ''The'') | 53 |
| Michael Cunningham's ''The ___'' | 52 |
| Michael Haydn, brother of Joseph, is also an Austrian ___... | 60 |
| Michael J. Fox's role on "Family Ties" | 52 |
| Michael Jackson "Don't Stop ___ You Get Enough" | 61 |
| Michael Jackson "___ Don't Care About Us" | 55 |
| Michael Jackson hit that begins "Where did you come from lady? | 67 |
| Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop ___ You Get Enough" | 67 |
| Michael Jackson: "___ Don't Care About Us" | 56 |
| Michael Martin Murphey "___ Knots in the Devil's Tail" | 68 |
| Michael Moore indictment of the United States health care system | 64 |
| Michael of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' | 57 |
| Michael of ''The Cider House Rules'' | 52 |
| Michael of "Arrested Development" and "Superbad" | 68 |
| Michael of "Juno" and "Superbad" | 52 |
| Michael of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" | 52 |
| Michael of "Weekend Update" on "S.N.L." | 59 |
| Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Bill Berry and Mike Mills | 52 |
| Michael who directed "14 Up" through "56 Up" | 64 |
| Michael who played Lenny on "Laverne & Shirley" | 61 |
| Michael who sang "I'm a lumberjack and I'm O.K." | 66 |
| Michael who starred in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" | 58 |
| Michael who starred in TV's "It's a Great Life" | 65 |
| Michael who was Klaatu in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" | 67 |
| Michael who won a Pulitzer for "The Killer Angels" | 60 |
| Michael who won an Oscar for "Little Miss Sunshine" | 61 |
| Michael who wrote the 1975 best seller “Power!” | 55 |
| Michael with the memoir "Work in Progress" | 52 |
| Michael ___ Black (regular on VH1's "I Love the X0s") | 67 |
| Michael ___, Bush secretary of health and human services | 56 |
| Michelangelo sculpture famously vandalized in 1972 by Laszlo Toth | 65 |
| Michelangelo's "The Last Judgment," e.g. | 54 |
| Michelangelo's fresco "The Creation of ___" | 57 |
| Michelle Branch's "___ You Happy Now?" | 52 |
| Michelle of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" | 54 |
| Michelle who's the Bond girl in "Tomorrow Never Dies" | 67 |
| Michener book subtitled "Spanish Travels and Reflections" | 67 |
| Michigan city mentioned in Paul Simon's "America" | 63 |
| Michigan city of 50,000 that's home to a Fortune 500 company | 64 |
| Michigan city where the first Domino's Pizza opened | 55 |
| Michigan's 989 is the highest of them in America | 52 |
| Mickey's employer, in "Fantasia" (h,h) | 52 |
| Microsoft chairman who tried to beef up his company? | 52 |
| Microsoft offering with a Home Basic or Ultimate option | 55 |
| Microsystems company forced to cut operating expenses! | 54 |
| Mid-90s arcade basketball game that failed to include Michael Jordan | 68 |
| Mid-American Conference team whose mascot is a kangaroo | 55 |
| Middle America, to some snooty intercoastal travelers | 53 |
| Middle distance runner Steve who won Olympic gold in 1980 | 57 |
| Middle name in the title of a 1979 Best Picture nominee | 55 |
| Middle name of ''The Wizard of Menlo Park'' | 59 |
| Middle name on the cover of the 2012 album "Kiss" | 59 |
| Middle of an Aeschylus trilogy, with "The" | 52 |
| Middle properties on the four sides of a Monopoly board: Abbr. | 62 |
| Mideast capital whose name means "the big tree" | 57 |
| Mideast city whose name, coincidentally, is an anagram of ARABS | 63 |
| Mideast president who wrote "The Battle for Peace," 1981 | 66 |
| Midler and Keaton's costar in "The First Wives Club" | 66 |
| Midwest city in the middle of the I-70/I-71/I-75 triangle | 57 |
| Midwest city which lends its name to a Republican straw poll | 60 |
| Midwest city whose name means "hospitality" | 53 |
| Midwest college town that was an Underground Railroad stop | 58 |
| Midwest metropolis--it has a view of Canada to the south! | 57 |
| Midwest university with 23 team wrestling championships | 55 |
| Midwestern city with the motto "Smart Choice" | 55 |
| Midyear reaction by those who forget their sunglasses? | 54 |
| Miedaner's "The ___ of Anna Klane": 1977 | 54 |