| Main ingredient of butter, often | 32 |
| Main ingredient in the Moroccan dish pastilla | 45 |
| Main ingredient in pirates' grog | 36 |
| Main ingredient in a Monte Carlo | 32 |
| Main ingredient in a molded dessert | 35 |
| Main idea of a Verdi composition | 32 |
| Main hood in "Little Caesar," 1931 | 44 |
| Main greeting in only one U.S. state | 36 |
| Main grape of most wine blends from the Rhone | 45 |
| Main food-supplying region of a country | 39 |
| Main female character in "Swan Lake" | 46 |
| Main event in "The Crucible" | 38 |
| Main dedicatee of an Austin cathedral? | 38 |
| Main course at the first Thanksgiving | 37 |
| Main consumer goods source, before 1750 | 39 |
| Main component of Saturn's rings | 36 |
| Main competitor of Betty Crocked? | 33 |
| Main character of "The Omen" | 38 |
| Main character of "Slaughterhouse-Five" | 49 |
| Main character in the musical "Xanadu" | 48 |
| Main character in the "Myst" series | 45 |
| Main character in "Up" | 32 |
| Main character in "The Omen" | 38 |
| Main character in "The Little Mermaid" | 48 |
| Main character in "The Boondocks" | 43 |
| Main character in "Sex and the City" | 46 |
| Main character in "Pushing Daisies" | 45 |
| Main character in "Hair" | 34 |
| Main character in "Enough Said" | 41 |
| Main character in "A Clockwork Orange" | 48 |
| Mailing option (with a hidden veggie) | 37 |
| Mailer-___ (bounce message source) | 34 |
| Mailer's "The ___": 1975 | 38 |
| Mailer's "The ___" | 32 |
| Mailer's "The ___ and the Dead" | 45 |
| Mailer work, with "The" | 33 |
| Mailer novel, with "The" | 34 |
| Mailboxes ___ (former mailing co.) | 34 |
| Mailbox listing for the Little Women | 36 |
| Mailbox checker's excited cry | 33 |
| Mail-submission accompaniment, briefly | 38 |
| Mail-order purchase enclosure, often | 36 |
| Mail-order company of cartoondom | 32 |
| Mail-order carpet seller's mailing? | 39 |
| Mail-carrying creature of Hogwarts | 34 |
| Mail that bears the stamp of the past | 37 |
| Mail svc. that may cover a general store | 40 |
| Mail service in the sticks (abbr.) | 34 |
| Mail order pioneer __ Montgomery Ward | 37 |
| Mail delivery assignments: Abbr. | 32 |
| Mail deliverers in the Harry Potter books | 41 |
| Mail carriers' assignments: Abbr. | 37 |
| Mail carrier's romantic activities? | 39 |
| Mail carrier's assignment: Abbr. | 36 |
| Mail carrier in "Game of Thrones" | 43 |
| Mail Boxes ___ (chain that became The UPS Store) | 48 |
| Mail an invitation for, as a wedding | 36 |
| Maids a-milking in a Christmas song, e.g. | 41 |
| Maidenhair and water clover, e.g. | 33 |
| Maiden: "Seventh ___ of a Seventh ___" | 48 |
| Maiden tribute album "A Call to ___" | 46 |
| Maiden name on the Supreme Court | 32 |
| Maiden name of second Mrs. Benjamin Harrison | 44 |
| Maiden name of Mme. Chiang Kai-shek | 35 |
| Maiden name of Harry Potter's mother | 40 |
| Maiden lover "in a kingdom by the sea" | 48 |
| Maiden in Poe's "The Raven" | 41 |
| Maiden "___ of Life and Death" | 40 |
| Maiden "Stranger in a Strange ___" | 44 |
| Maid portrayed at renaissance fairs | 35 |
| Maid on "Will & Grace" | 36 |
| Maid of the ___, at Niagara Falls | 33 |
| Maid of the ___ (Niagara Falls boat) | 36 |
| Maid of honor, to the bride, often | 34 |
| Maid of honor in "King Henry VIII" | 44 |
| Maid of honor and best man, e.g. | 32 |
| Maid in "Upstairs, Downstairs" | 40 |
| Maid in "The Merchant of Venice" | 42 |
| Maid in "Die Fledermaus" | 34 |
| Maid from the movie version of "Clue" | 47 |
| Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's country | 33 |
| Mahler's unfinished symphony | 32 |
| Mahler's French estate in Maine? | 36 |
| Mahler's "___ Lied von der Erde" | 46 |
| Mahler's "Das Lied von der _____" | 47 |
| Mahler's "Das Lied von der ___" | 45 |
| Mahler's "Das Lied von der ---" | 45 |
| Mahler's ____ Lied von der Erde | 38 |
| Mahler with nine complete symphonies | 36 |
| Mahler song-cycle Das Lied von der ____ | 42 |
| Mahalo nui ___ (thank you very much, in Hawaiian) | 49 |
| Magzine with a period in its name | 33 |
| Magyar : Hungarian :: Gaeilge : ___ | 35 |
| Magwitch of "Great Expectations" | 42 |
| Magwitch of Great Expectations | 34 |
| Maguire's enemy in "Spider-Man" | 45 |
| Maguire's "Spider-Man" costar | 43 |
| Maguire of "Spider-Man" | 33 |
| Magritte's "___ Fixe" | 35 |
| Magritte's "The ___ of Man" | 41 |