| Minor league team with a locomotive in one of its logos | 55 |
| Minor-leaguer whose team is named after a Coney Island roller coaster | 69 |
| Minstrel show figure who banters with the interlocutor | 54 |
| Mint-family plant with bright-colored leaves and blue flowers | 61 |
| Miracles: "You've Really Got a Hold ___" | 54 |
| Miranda who portrayed Eowyn in "The Lord of the Rings" | 64 |
| Mirna's smaller teammate in "The Amazing Race 5" | 62 |
| Misanthrope who says "We are all born mad. Some remain so" | 68 |
| Mischief-makers (you'll find seven of them in the answer grid) | 66 |
| Mischievous spirit in ''The Tempest'' | 53 |
| Misleadingly named wasp that damages American Beauties | 54 |
| Miss America (1959) who became a film and TV actress, Mary Ann ___ | 66 |
| Miss Daisy's driver in "Driving Miss Daisy" | 57 |
| Miss Havisham's ward in "Great Expectations" | 58 |
| Miss Scrumptious of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" | 55 |
| Miss ___ ("Pee-Wee's Playhouse" character) | 56 |
| Miss ___ (late-night psychic in 1990s TV commercials) | 53 |
| Miss ___ (psychic who totally faked that Jamaican accent) | 57 |
| Miss ___ Evans of McCullers's "Ballad of the Sad Cafe" | 68 |
| Miss ___ Kette (bird that teaches manners on "Barney") | 64 |
| Miss ___ Quested ("A Passage to India" character) | 59 |
| Missed the bus, forgot lunch, argued with the boss, etc. | 56 |
| Missile that sank a British destroyer in the Falklands War | 58 |
| Mission that figured into "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" | 65 |
| Mississippi site of Machine Gun Kelly's last known bank robbery | 67 |
| Mississippi town in "In the Heat of the Night" | 56 |
| Mississippi university that's home to the Fighting Okra | 59 |
| Missive whose meaning is often blurred by autocorrect | 53 |
| Missouri band that failed to "shake things up" | 56 |
| Missouri band that tried to "shake things up" | 55 |
| Missouri NFL player, or the reckless fan who kept headbutting me? | 65 |
| Missouri town near the George Washington Carver National Monument | 65 |
| Missouri University of Science and Technology locale | 52 |
| Missy Elliott's "___ What I'm Talkin' About" | 66 |
| Mistakenly hitting into the doubles area during a singles match? | 64 |
| Mistletoe branch that was Aeneas' pass to the underworld | 60 |
| Mitch Albom bestseller "Tuesdays With ___" | 52 |
| Mitch of ''The Five People You Meet in Heaven'' | 63 |
| Mitchell who wrote and sang "Chelsea Morning" | 55 |
| Mitsubishi model whose name means "huntsman" in Spanish | 65 |
| Mitt Romney is not one, though you might have assumed so | 56 |
| Mix over, as a salad whose walnuts have sunk to the bottom | 58 |
| Mixed drink #4: Metal chopsticks (vodka, Kahlúa, and light cream) | 68 |
| Mixed drink with cognac, triple sec, and citrus juice | 53 |
| Mixture with equal parts flour, butter, eggs, and sugar | 55 |
| Miyoshi ___, Best Supporting Actress winner for "Sayonara" | 68 |
| MLB playoff round that featured LA and Phil. in 2008 | 52 |
| MLB relief pitcher who was country singer Tim's father | 58 |
| MLB team that has been in the league the longest without a no-hitter | 68 |
| Mnemonic for colors of the spectrum, starting at the other end | 62 |
| Mo. in which the Emancipation Proclamation was delivered | 56 |
| Mo. Japan celebrates "Health and Sports Day" | 54 |
| Mobster Bonpensiero's first name on "The Sopranos" | 64 |
| Mobutu's across-the-border counterpart of the 1970s | 55 |
| Mock response to a friend who pulls a practical joke | 52 |
| Mocking nickname for Dr. J, in reference to his mediocre jump shot? | 67 |
| Model Carangi who was played by Angelina Jolie in a TV movie | 60 |
| Model who dropped Abdulmajid from her professional name | 55 |
| Model who wrote "The Way to Natural Beauty" | 53 |
| Moderator of a panel including Joy, Elisabeth and Sherri | 56 |
| Moderator of the first Obama/McCain and Obama/Romney debates | 60 |
| Modern coinage meaning intuition without regard to facts | 56 |
| Modern dancer Duncan strangled by her own scarf en route to a tryst | 67 |
| Modern navig. tool, or alternative title for this puzzle | 56 |
| Modern subculture that's fascinated by morbidity | 52 |
| Modern type of data network, and this puzzle's theme | 56 |
| Modern-day alerts that The New Republic suggested The Onion carry | 65 |
| Modern-day business model offering partial complimentary goods | 62 |
| Modern-day name of the city where "Peer Gynt" premiered | 65 |
| Modern-day reality show where the contestants cross train? | 58 |
| Modest Mouse "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even ___" | 62 |
| Modest Mouse "___ for People Who Love Bad News" | 57 |
| Moe parodied him in some W.W. II-era Three Stooges shorts | 57 |
| Mohamed who's the subject of "Welcome to Terrorland" | 66 |
| Moira Kelly did her voice in "The Lion King" | 54 |
| Molecule for which Linus Pauling proposed a triple-stranded structure | 69 |
| Molière's "L'___" ("The Miser") | 62 |
| Molière's "Le Médecin Malgré ___" | 56 |
| Moliere's ''L'ecole ___ femmes'' | 56 |
| Mollusc about which something isn't quite right? | 52 |
| Mollusk named for its pair of long earlike appendages | 53 |
| Molly's "Delicious Dish" costar, on "SNL" | 65 |
| Mom on the air after Clair on NBC Thursdays in the 1980s | 56 |
| MoMA's "The Red Studio" and "Dance" | 59 |
| MoMA's "Two Heads" and "Birds in an Aquarium" | 69 |
| Moments when people might sit around tables and raise spirits? | 62 |
| Mona Lisa Vito in "My Cousin Vinny," for one | 54 |
| Monastery residents who have not taken monastic vows | 52 |
| Monet painting also known as "The Woman in the Green Dress" | 69 |
| Money earmarked for neatening up one's hairline with a razor? | 65 |
| Money owed to a company, as shown on their spreadsheets | 55 |
| Money to spring a Ukrainian figure skater from the pen? | 55 |
| Monica who wrote the memoir "Getting a Grip" | 54 |
| Moniker suggested by the pattern of white squares in this grid | 62 |
| Monkees "Apples, Peaches, Bananas and ___" | 52 |
| Monogram of a major Jewish fraternity, aka the Zebes | 52 |
| Monogram of the author of "The Biglow Papers" | 55 |
| Monogram of the author of "The Hollow Men" | 52 |
| Monogram of the United States' fattest president | 52 |
| Monomials with the same variable raised to the same power | 57 |