| Mumps symptoms (and technically, this should be "Great Britain," but how often does one get a chance to put this answer in a puzzle?) | 143 |
| Mathematician believed to be the first computer programmer (she had a Google doodle devoted to her 197th birthday this past Monday) | 131 |
| Movie with the line "Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of" | 131 |
| Massachusetts school ... and a description of the two-word meeting that occurs at the intersections of pairs of starred answers | 127 |
| Model train company that REFUSES to face accusations that their faulty tracks endanger millions of imaginary tiny conductors? | 125 |
| Mark that appears four times in this puzzle (hint: the baseball player who's the answer to this puzzle uses one, too) | 121 |
| Most likely to go way too far, for example to get drunk and expose one's ass and then shake it in people's faces | 120 |
| Memorable repeated question by the economics teacher (played by Ben Stein) in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 118 |
| Money ... or a hint to how six crossings in this puzzle are to be represented, superimposing one letter over another | 116 |
| Movie in which Europe's "The Final Countdown" doesn't actually appear, contrary to popular belief | 115 |
| Music releases like "We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes," and "Narrow Stairs," to fans | 114 |
| Mariah Carey song title that completes the lyric "I'd give ___ to have just one more night with you" | 114 |
| Maintain equilibrium while pushing on a rotating peripheral attachment, alternating with the lower extremities | 110 |
| Movie character with more than 400 siblings, all of whom are killed within the first five minutes of the film | 109 |
| Michael who is one of two actors who has been nominated for an Academy Award every decade since the '60s | 108 |
| Make of six models that are subject to recall ... and being sent back inside this puzzle's theme entries | 108 |
| Mideast city that is the capital of the world in H. G. Wells's "The Shape of Things to Come" | 106 |
| Movie with the tagline "A world inside the computer where man has never been. Never before now." | 106 |
| Magazine that "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" author Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor of | 105 |
| Modern dance music that supposedly mixes two genres that I'd be hard-pressed to differentiate, myself | 105 |
| Mumford & Sons lyric "Ships might be built for sailing my love, and ___ made for painting" | 104 |
| Movie ticket site named after a dance, because why do things need to have anything to do with each other | 104 |
| Miss ___ ("Pee-Wee's Playhouse" character returning to the show's 2010 stage version) | 103 |
| Madison who said "You don't have to cook. I have enough potato chips to last me a year" | 101 |
| Magazine with the recurring heading "Onward and Upward With the Arts," with "The" | 101 |
| Missed Connection: You gallantly lent me your umbrella during a downpour, then disappeared - my ___! | 100 |
| Men's style magazine focusing on "classic elegance" named after a term for a womanizer | 100 |
| Musical in which Madonna set a Guinness World Record for "Most costume changes in a film" | 99 |
| Malcolm's maternal grandmother on "Malcolm in the Middle" (played by Cloris Leachman) | 99 |
| Mascot to improve the image of mining, or a household chemical company's expansion into energy? | 99 |
| Morissette song that, by failing to give examples of things that are its title, becomes said title | 98 |
| MRS. HAtty-Cyphert you will amaze at your w*ste line goes invisible vvith these rev/olutionary ___ | 98 |
| Main thoroughfare in Manhattan (one can be found in each of the four long answers in this puzzle) | 97 |
| Middle infielder who homered for the Mets in his first plate appearances of 2004, 2005, and 2006 | 96 |
| Morgan who is "too sleepy and self-centered to ever hurt another person," per Tina Fey | 96 |
| Miller beer that "tastes great" and is "less filling," according to its ads | 95 |
| Mary whose short story "The Wisdom of Eve" was the basis of "All About Eve" | 95 |
| Meat that everyone thinks is rotten but then it turns out to be some of the best barbecue ever? | 95 |
| MTV reality show that controversially uses the terms "Guido" and "Guidette" | 95 |
| Mathematician and philosopher who coined the phrase "the best of all possible worlds" | 95 |
| Musician who's probably going to end up in your grid when you've got 33 3-letter words | 94 |
| Mnemonic that figures into each theme entry's "color shift" (from top to bottom) | 94 |
| Mr. Peabody's aptly named time machine, as the creators of Rocky and Bullwinkle spelled it | 94 |
| Material used in the faces of the clock above the information stand in Grand Central Terminal | 93 |
| Movie in which Tom Cruise's character is told, "You can't handle the truth" | 93 |
| Magazine that dropped "Reader" from its name and then put it back a few years later | 93 |
| Movie that hit #1 for Worst Actor and Worst Picture in an IMDb 2005 "Worst of" poll | 93 |
| Miley Cyrus movie starring Demi Moore (yes, this is a thing; it shouldn't be, but it is) | 92 |
| Movie in which the title character says "The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets" | 92 |
| M&M's that were removed from 1976 to 1987 out of a health concern for a coloring dye | 92 |
| Mixed drink #2: A video-game themed communiqué (tequila, citrus juice, liqueur, and salt) | 92 |
| Mystery Person once composed a piano piece that, to be performed correctly, required the ... | 92 |
| Movie villain who said "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." | 91 |
| Mystery Person once wrote a waltz in which the choice of measures played was determined ... | 91 |
| Memo about museum staff putting mistletoe around Frans's "Laughing Cavalier"? | 91 |
| Max Bialystock's musical adaptation of "Hamlet," in "The Producers" | 91 |
| Musical featuring the songs "Tornado Ballet" and "Slide Some Oil to Me" | 91 |
| Mo. with very few holidays, though looks like it's got National Ice Cream Sandwich Day | 90 |
| Manfred Mann "Runner" lyric, "See the ___ as your breath hits the air" | 90 |
| Malia's command to the family dog when it's time to return to Pennsylvania Avenue? | 90 |
| Metaphor for kinetic grace ... or what this puzzle's six eight-letter answers display? | 90 |
| Michelle ranked #1 on Rotten Tomatoes' "25 Best Action Heroines of All Time" | 90 |
| Minimum number of times each letter of the alphabet appears in this puzzle's solution | 89 |
| Magazine whose debut issue featured a cover photo of Cindy Crawford dressed as Washington | 89 |
| Mixed drink #1: A friar's riding sport (vodka, cranberry juice, triple sec, and lime) | 89 |
| Mock rock band with the albums "Smell The Glove" and "Shark Sandwich" | 89 |
| Midwestern city named after a character in Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" | 88 |
| Mo. in which chemistry nerds celebrate Mole Day (between 6:02 AM and 6:02 PM, precisely) | 88 |
| Magazine in which Arnold Schwarzenegger discussed having an orgy with other bodybuilders | 88 |
| Matriarch of the Patterson family in the comic strip "For Better or for Worse" | 88 |
| Mixed martial arts fighter Rolling Stone called "The King of the Web Brawlers" | 88 |
| Movie with the line "I'm a vulgar man. But I assure you, my music is not" | 87 |
| Mayor who appeared as himself in "Sex and the City" and "Spin City" | 87 |
| Moorish ___ (kind of fish that Willem Dafoe's Gill is, in "Finding Nemo") | 87 |
| Miniseries whose final episode was the third-most-watched scripted show in U.S. history | 87 |
| Mathematician who is the subject of the book "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" | 87 |
| Movie with the first female winner of the Oscar for Best Director, with "The" | 87 |
| Mammal whose name derives from the Latin words for "pig" and "fish" | 87 |
| Mr. Zog's surfboard grip product that gained notoriety by being banned from schools | 87 |
| Molecule that sends amino acids to ribosomes ... and a hint to the theme of this puzzle | 87 |
| Movie org. that created a top-100 list from which all of this puzzle's quotes come | 86 |
| Manhattan Transfer classic with the line "A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup" | 86 |
| Mascot for a sports psychologist, or a cereal company's expansion into newspapers? | 86 |
| Most-distributed publication in the world, with over twice as many copies as The Bible | 86 |
| Monogram of the author of "A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House" | 85 |
| Model namechecked along with Linda and Christy in RuPaul's "Supermodel" | 85 |
| 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 |
| Metaphorical political term for a system with no purpose other than to sustain itself | 85 |
| Martha's portrayer on Broadway in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" | 85 |
| Musical character who sings "Leavin' fo' de Promise' Lan'" | 84 |
| Mexican singer Downs who performed on the Oscar-winning "Frida" soundtrack | 84 |
| Monogram of a one-time New York governor who became Gerald Ford's vice president | 84 |
| Media billionaire who once owned the Grand Ole Opry and TV's "Hee Haw" | 84 |
| Musical featuring the song "Hernando's Hideaway," with "The" | 84 |
| Musical work in four parts, with its first part opening the Met's 2010-11 season | 84 |
| Meg Ryan's repeated shout in a famous "When Harry Met Sally ..." scene | 84 |
| Monthly release [the American Values Club xword is at avxwords.com - subscribe now] | 83 |
| Meal blessing that's 'mixed' and hidden in seven answers in this puzzle | 83 |
| Movie with the line "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" | 83 |