| Missouri is beginning to turn humid (5) | 39 |
| Missouri end of the Pony Express | 32 |
| Missouri county on the border of Arkansas | 41 |
| Missouri city where Jesse James was killed | 42 |
| Missouri ballplayer's connection? | 37 |
| Missive leading to military service | 35 |
| Mississippi's ___ State University | 38 |
| Mississippi's official airline? | 35 |
| Mississippi's junior senator | 32 |
| Mississippi tributary named by La Salle | 39 |
| Mississippi tributary in Mississippi | 36 |
| Mississippi senator's family | 32 |
| Mississippi senator will catch on? | 34 |
| Mississippi River's largest tributary | 41 |
| Mississippi River vis-a-vis Mississippi | 39 |
| Mississippi river to the Mississippi River | 42 |
| Mississippi river named by La Salle | 35 |
| Mississippi River discoverer of 1541 | 36 |
| Mississippi county whose seat is Tupelo | 39 |
| Mississippi city where Elvis was born | 37 |
| Mississippi city where Elvis Presley was born | 45 |
| Mississippi B.B. King Museum city | 33 |
| Mississippi (with ''state'') | 44 |
| Missionary's target, perhaps | 32 |
| Missionary winner of the Nobel Peace Prize | 42 |
| Missionary who discovered Victoria Falls | 40 |
| Mission: Impossible theme composer Schifrin | 46 |
| Mission: Defeat the Blue Meanies | 32 |
| Mission where Davy Crockett was killed | 38 |
| Mission people, not tech support | 32 |
| Mission of an Army officers' school? | 40 |
| Mission in "The Thin Red Line" | 40 |
| Mission Impossible composer Schifrin | 39 |
| Missing, as the start of a party | 32 |
| Missing primrose with a ransom note, for example? | 49 |
| Missing Persons "Walking ___" | 39 |
| Missing person in Buchanan's term | 37 |
| Missing pencils may be found behind these | 41 |
| Missing glasses' location, usually | 38 |
| Missing from one's company, perhaps | 39 |
| Missing floor in Caesar's Palace? | 37 |
| Missing feature in a Michael Jackson caricature | 47 |
| Missing button on an iPod: Abbr. | 32 |
| Missing all one's jumpers, e.g. | 35 |
| Missiles may be delivered in one | 32 |
| Missiles fired in the first Gulf War | 36 |
| Missile used during the first Gulf War | 38 |
| Missile that might be tipped with curare | 40 |
| Missile that could destroy a destroyer: Abbr. | 45 |
| Missile part with the explosive charge | 38 |
| Missile intercepted by a Patriot | 32 |
| Misses some of the lecture, perhaps | 35 |
| Misses part of the lecture, perhaps | 35 |
| Missed ___ (blew one's entrance) | 36 |
| Missed some of the action, in a way | 35 |
| Missed signals from Little Boy Blue, maybe | 42 |
| Missed connections in this puzzle | 33 |
| Miss, south of the border: Abbr. | 32 |
| Miss's proverbial equivalent | 32 |
| Miss's equivalent, in a saying | 34 |
| Miss's equivalent, idiomatically | 36 |
| Miss _____ of "Dallas" | 32 |
| Miss ___, in Faulkner's "Sanctuary" | 49 |
| Miss ___ of TV's "Dallas" | 39 |
| Miss ___ (Uncle Remus character) | 32 |
| Miss ___ (teacher in "Peanuts") | 41 |
| Miss ___ (psychic charged by the FCC) | 37 |
| Miss ___ (do an imperfect painting job) | 39 |
| Miss ___ (do an imperfect cleaning job) | 39 |
| Miss ___ ("The Wizard of Oz" character) | 49 |
| Miss Webb of "Our Town" | 33 |
| Miss von Kappelhoff's diary entry | 37 |
| Miss Trueheart of "Dick Tracy" | 40 |
| Miss Sweeney of "Anything Goes" | 41 |
| Miss Ravenclaw, who co-founded Hogwarts School | 46 |
| Miss Quested of “A Passage to India” | 44 |
| Miss Quested of "A Passage to India" | 46 |
| Miss Prynne of "The Scarlet Letter" | 45 |
| Miss Porter of "Limberlost" | 37 |
| Miss Pogner of "Die Meistersinger" | 44 |
| Miss PiggyÂ's exclamation | 33 |
| Miss Piggy's questionable pronoun | 37 |
| Miss Piggy's Foo-Foo, for one | 33 |
| Miss Piggy's favorite pronoun | 33 |
| Miss Newman's Own 2009, say? | 32 |
| Miss Muffet, before the spider showed up | 40 |
| Miss Moneypenny portrayer Maxwell | 33 |
| Miss Mississippi's curviest parts? | 38 |
| Miss Megley's charge, in a Salinger story | 45 |
| Miss Marple film "Murder _____" | 41 |
| Miss Manners' Olympic event? | 32 |
| Miss Manners gives it a thumbs down | 35 |
| Miss Loughlin of "Full House" | 39 |
| Miss Lane of "Superman" | 33 |
| Miss Kitty's place of employment | 36 |
| Miss Jane Pittman portrayer Cicely | 34 |
| Miss Hungary of 1936, familiarly | 32 |
| Miss hitting a piñata?: Abbr. | 32 |
| Miss Heming as a partner in crime | 33 |
| Miss Hardcastle in a Goldsmith comedy | 37 |