| Mark with intersecting sets of parallel lines | 45 |
| Momentarily forget (or get lucky in Scrabble) | 45 |
| Medical discovery of Gertrude Elion (1918-99) | 45 |
| Musical sound before and after "da" | 45 |
| Monogram of "The Conning Tower" man | 45 |
| Moving along like the Jabberwock's slayer | 45 |
| Member of our country club (1954, 1974, 1990) | 45 |
| Make one's way down the corporate ladder? | 45 |
| Magnificent car driven by giant B-movie ants? | 45 |
| Meal starter that's happy on the outside? | 45 |
| Most shaggy / Hotel offering / Actress Goldie | 45 |
| Movie starring a cross-dressing John Travolta | 45 |
| Means of using your noggin to achieve a goal? | 45 |
| Mining town of Michigan's Upper Peninsula | 45 |
| Mrs. Archer in "The Maltese Falcon" | 45 |
| Meandering trip from Kingston to Montego Bay? | 45 |
| Mexico's early reformist president Benito | 45 |
| Modest answer to "Who's there?" | 45 |
| Mystical teachings developed by rabbis (Var.) | 45 |
| Mila of "Oz the Great and Powerful" | 45 |
| Most people don't think they're funny | 45 |
| Marooned on monorail in Sunshine State mecca? | 45 |
| Milton's "least erected spirit" | 45 |
| Massachusetts city, birthplace of N. C. Wyeth | 45 |
| MORGAN STANLEY begins mining copper and gold? | 45 |
| Musical featuring "I Like the Look" | 45 |
| Measurement for men that's sometimes long | 45 |
| Mark the beginning of Lent in a shocking way? | 45 |
| Makes blueprints for a jet-producing factory? | 45 |
| Make a homie's turf unfit for habitation? | 45 |
| Margaret Thatcher supporter in Scotland Yard? | 45 |
| Meeting that's both business and pleasure | 45 |
| MTV's answer to "Candid Camera" | 45 |
| Minerals known as "fool's gold" | 45 |
| Motivational words for a boss at layoff time? | 45 |
| Memo about a religious outpost for prisoners? | 45 |
| Medium in which this puzzle's ad appeared | 45 |
| Monogram of "Amusement Park" author | 45 |
| Market-town birthplace of a style of football | 45 |
| Make a slam dunk or cross the goal line, e.g. | 45 |
| Man-bashing 1968 manifesto by Valerie Solanas | 45 |
| Many a Melville setting, with "the" | 45 |
| Money winner on "You Bet Your Life" | 45 |
| Message sometimes written below "F" | 45 |
| Musical classic "___ in the Clowns" | 45 |
| MacFarlane or Green of "Family Guy" | 45 |
| Malden's employer in a '70s TV series | 45 |
| Military strategy during the invasion of Iraq | 45 |
| Many a recipient of hand-me-downs, informally | 45 |
| Movie with Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier | 45 |
| Minneapolis "supergroup" Golden ___ | 45 |
| Maine senator with a climate-appropriate name | 45 |
| Major-leaguer with three 60+ home run seasons | 45 |
| Manipulated to be more powerful, as an engine | 45 |
| Meat featured in a Monty Python musical title | 45 |
| Madrid's equivalent of a Texas university | 45 |
| Music magazine whose logo is a 45 rpm adapter | 45 |
| Main ingredient in the Moroccan dish pastilla | 45 |
| Michelangelo's "David," for one | 45 |
| Maj. Winchester portrayer on "MASH" | 45 |
| Musical stage show involving garbage can lids | 45 |
| Math item represented using a plus or a sigma | 45 |
| Much of New York's Garment District, once | 45 |
| Mozart's "Jupiter," e.g.: Abbr. | 45 |
| Main grape of most wine blends from the Rhone | 45 |
| Most likely to eat out of one's hand, say | 45 |
| Mack of "The Original Amateur Hour" | 45 |
| Many a "High School Musical" viewer | 45 |
| Mother ___ (1979 Nobel Peace Prize recipient) | 45 |
| Moon jumper, in "Hey Diddle Diddle" | 45 |
| Movie about a group of young female vampires? | 45 |
| Malcolm's "The Cosby Show" role | 45 |
| Michael Moore's "Downsize ___!" | 45 |
| Mozart opera "La Clemenza di _____" | 45 |
| Marisa of ''What Women Want'' | 45 |
| Missile that could destroy a destroyer: Abbr. | 45 |
| Mariana ___ (world's deepest ocean point) | 45 |
| Meetings probably not entered in P.D.A.'s | 45 |
| Mississippi city where Elvis Presley was born | 45 |
| Mentalist Geller with ties to Michael Jackson | 45 |
| Mil. branch in the Dept. of Homeland Security | 45 |
| Most religiously homogeneous state in America | 45 |
| Magazine that ran the first-ever movie review | 45 |
| Many of them have gone on to become president | 45 |
| Maintainers of a sacred flame in ancient Rome | 45 |
| Maxing out one's card on shoes, say (3-6) | 45 |
| Massachusetts landmark made famous by Thoreau | 45 |
| Much sought after guy in children's books | 45 |
| Marsupial that may be no larger than a rabbit | 45 |
| Member of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | 45 |
| Morcheeba "Rome ___ Built in a Day" | 45 |
| Marmon _____ (first auto to win the Indy 500) | 45 |
| Made it to the first page of reddit, probably | 45 |
| Meal that encompasses everything on the menu? | 45 |
| Melissa Etheridge: "Come To My ___" | 45 |
| Maker of the Vortex electric pencil sharpener | 45 |
| Mutant battlers of the Brotherhood of Mutants | 45 |
| Massive dotcom headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA | 45 |
| Multiplatinum Melissa Etheridge album of 1993 | 45 |
| Modern acronym meaning "carpe diem" | 45 |