| Lowish varieties of "vertical deflection traffic calming devices" | 75 |
| Lucy ___, title character in Sir Walter Scott's "The Bride of Lammermoor" | 87 |
| Ludlum's ''Identity'' and ''Ultimatum'' | 75 |
| Lurid 1979 film about John Dillinger's girlfriend, with "The" | 75 |
| Lute player Karamazov who collaborated on Sting's "Songs From the Labyrinth" | 90 |
| Lying in the mud during a freezing storm, in "The Divine Comedy"? | 75 |
| Lyricist born 11/18/1909 who wrote the words to the 10 songs with asterisked clues | 82 |
| Lyricist for Broadway’s disastrous “Spider-Man,” with “the” | 79 |
| M&M's that were removed from 1976 to 1987 out of a health concern for a coloring dye | 92 |
| Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon character that debuted in 2001 | 73 |
| Mad cow disease or, if you prefer a less off-putting clue, Indian trading org. | 78 |
| Mad scientist's sadistic exclamation upon attacking the Empire State? | 73 |
| Madison who said "You don't have to cook. I have enough potato chips to last me a year" | 101 |
| Madonna's announcement after her workout with the 3-time American League MVP? | 81 |
| Magazine in which Arnold Schwarzenegger discussed having an orgy with other bodybuilders | 88 |
| Magazine that "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" author Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor of | 105 |
| Magazine that dropped "Reader" from its name and then put it back a few years later | 93 |
| Magazine that runs a spread for every winner of "Project Runway" | 74 |
| Magazine whose debut issue featured a cover photo of Cindy Crawford dressed as Washington | 89 |
| Magazine with an annual list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies | 73 |
| Magazine with the recurring heading "Onward and Upward With the Arts," with "The" | 101 |
| Magazine with the subtitle "The Best of the Alternative Press" | 72 |
| Magical beings who deliver orgasms via neckwear-based autoerotic asphyxiation? | 78 |
| Magician, and word whose ten letters make up every answer in this puzzle | 72 |
| Main thoroughfare in Manhattan (one can be found in each of the four long answers in this puzzle) | 97 |
| Maintain equilibrium while pushing on a rotating peripheral attachment, alternating with the lower extremities | 110 |
| Make of six models that are subject to recall ... and being sent back inside this puzzle's theme entries | 108 |
| Maker of a dish Patton Oswalt called a "failure pile in a sadness bowl" | 81 |
| Maker of V8 juice, whose eight original ingredients are the theme of this puzzle | 80 |
| Making out ... or a hint to this puzzle's four hidden articles of clothing | 78 |
| Malcolm's maternal grandmother on "Malcolm in the Middle" (played by Cloris Leachman) | 99 |
| Male protagonist in William Inge's "Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff" | 74 |
| Malia's command to the family dog when it's time to return to Pennsylvania Avenue? | 90 |
| Maligned additive that the FDA "generally recognize[s] as safe" | 73 |
| Mammal whose name derives from the Latin words for "pig" and "fish" | 87 |
| Man refuses to supply photo on Internet dating service; ref cites him for ... | 77 |
| Manfred Mann "Runner" lyric, "See the ___ as your breath hits the air" | 90 |
| Manhattan Transfer classic with the line "A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup" | 86 |
| Manicurist in Palmolive ads who said "You're soaking in it" | 73 |
| Manned space mission that gets carried out in the 1984 movie "2010" | 77 |
| Manson "family" member who attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford | 73 |
| Manson follower and would-be Ford assassin Lynette "Squeaky" ___ | 74 |
| Many a ''Lord of the Rings'' extra (with ''New'') | 81 |
| Many people get one in the summer (and so do this puzzle's theme entries) | 77 |
| Many skiers use these when they [see diagonal starting in upper left corner] | 76 |
| Many thoroughfares ... or what this puzzle's Across answers consist of? | 75 |
| Marcel with the only audible line in Mel Brooks's "Silent Movie" | 78 |
| March figure ... or, when split into three parts, a title for this puzzle | 73 |
| Mariah Carey "You'll finally see the truth. That ___ lies in you" | 79 |
| Mariah Carey song title that completes the lyric "I'd give ___ to have just one more night with you" | 114 |
| Mariano Rivera has had only one in his career (not surprisingly, he struck out) | 79 |
| Mark that appears four times in this puzzle (hint: the baseball player who's the answer to this puzzle uses one, too) | 121 |
| Mark who bought a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks from Ross Perot's son | 82 |
| Mark who said "Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company" | 76 |
| Mark ___-Baker (actor who played Larry Appleton on "Perfect Strangers") | 81 |
| Market value of a company's assets divided by their replacement cost | 72 |
| Martha's portrayer on Broadway in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" | 85 |
| Mary whose short story "The Wisdom of Eve" was the basis of "All About Eve" | 95 |
| Mascot for a soup vendor, or a soda company's expansion into selling drugs? | 79 |
| Mascot for a sports psychologist, or a cereal company's expansion into newspapers? | 86 |
| Mascot for Sting, or a cookie company's expansion into precious metals? | 75 |
| Mascot to improve the image of mining, or a household chemical company's expansion into energy? | 99 |
| Masked hero who debuted in the 1919 story "The Curse of Capistrano" | 77 |
| Massachusetts city where Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote "The Scarlet Letter" | 81 |
| Massachusetts school ... and a description of the two-word meeting that occurs at the intersections of pairs of starred answers | 127 |
| Massachusetts town on Lake Chargoggagogg-manchauggagogg-chaubunagungamaugg | 74 |
| Massive mover in the Hoth battle sequence of "The Empire Strikes Back" | 80 |
| Master P's son who used to have "Lil'" in front of his name | 77 |
| Mate, and a hint to the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers | 72 |
| Material my stepfather's old Ford Pinto was made of, or so it seemed to me | 78 |
| Material used in the faces of the clock above the information stand in Grand Central Terminal | 93 |
| Mathematical field that includes the so-called "butterfly effect" | 75 |
| Mathematician and philosopher who coined the phrase "the best of all possible worlds" | 95 |
| Mathematician believed to be the first computer programmer (she had a Google doodle devoted to her 197th birthday this past Monday) | 131 |
| Mathematician Pierre whose "last theorem" took 358 years to prove | 75 |
| Mathematician who introduced the symbol e for the base of natural logarithms | 76 |
| Mathematician who is the subject of the book "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" | 87 |
| Mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the quintic equation | 74 |
| Mathematician who was the subject of "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" | 79 |
| Matriarch of the Patterson family in the comic strip "For Better or for Worse" | 88 |
| MATURE, FUN-LOVING man, smoker, music lover. Come share a palatial home ... | 75 |
| Max Bialystock's musical adaptation of "Hamlet," in "The Producers" | 91 |
| Mayor who appeared as himself in "Sex and the City" and "Spin City" | 87 |
| MC Hammer song recorded again for a photography copyright lawyer, with "U"? | 85 |
| Meal at which "Why is this night different from all other nights?" is asked | 85 |
| Meal blessing that's 'mixed' and hidden in seven answers in this puzzle | 83 |
| Mean-sounding Elvis Costello solo album on NPR's Best Music of 2002 list | 76 |
| Meat that everyone thinks is rotten but then it turns out to be some of the best barbecue ever? | 95 |
| Media billionaire who once owned the Grand Ole Opry and TV's "Hee Haw" | 84 |
| Medical procedure done while reading "The Outcasts of Poker Flat?" | 76 |
| Medieval poem about fate set to music in Orff's "Carmina Burana" | 78 |
| Medium in which the Reverend Brendan Powell Smith builds his Bible dioramas | 75 |
| Meg Ryan's repeated shout in a famous "When Harry Met Sally ..." scene | 84 |
| Mel Gibson's co-star in "Lethal Weapon 3" and "Ransom" | 78 |
| Member of a duo that "went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat" | 74 |
| Member of the 2007 Women's N.C.A.A. champion basketball team, for short | 75 |
| Member of the Green Mountain Boys who helped establish the University of Vermont | 80 |
| Member of the inaugural class of inductees to the National Toy Hall of Fame | 75 |
| Memo about museum staff putting mistletoe around Frans's "Laughing Cavalier"? | 91 |
| Memorable repeated question by the economics teacher (played by Ben Stein) in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 118 |