| Mythical figure represented in Vermeer's "The Art of Painting" | 76 |
| Mystery Person once wrote a waltz in which the choice of measures played was determined ... | 91 |
| Mystery Person once composed a piano piece that, to be performed correctly, required the ... | 92 |
| Mystery author whose work has been translated into more than 100 languages | 74 |
| My wife's third most-hated band (behind Big Country and Phil Collins solo) | 78 |
| My favorite cheap beer, for short (just sayin', if you're buying) | 73 |
| Musketeer Salim imagined himself to be, in "Slumdog Millionaire" | 74 |
| Musician who's probably going to end up in your grid when you've got 33 3-letter words | 94 |
| Musician Dolby who returned in 2011 with "A Map of the Floating City" | 79 |
| Musical work in four parts, with its first part opening the Met's 2010-11 season | 84 |
| Musical with the song "Slide Some Oil to Me," with "The" | 76 |
| Musical in which Madonna set a Guinness World Record for "Most costume changes in a film" | 99 |
| Musical featuring the songs "Tornado Ballet" and "Slide Some Oil to Me" | 91 |
| Musical featuring the song "Hernando's Hideaway," with "The" | 84 |
| Musical dedicatee whose true identity is the subject of much speculation | 72 |
| Musical character who sings "Leavin' fo' de Promise' Lan'" | 84 |
| Musical about the eccentric widow of Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside | 72 |
| Music releases like "We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes," and "Narrow Stairs," to fans | 114 |
| Museum featuring the works mentioned above, which opened on October 21, 1959 | 76 |
| Murray, Akroyd, Ramis, and Weaver's "Ghostbusters" co-star | 72 |
| Murderer in P.D.Q. Bach's spoof opera "A Little Nightmare Music" | 78 |
| 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 |
| Mumford & Sons lyric "Ships might be built for sailing my love, and ___ made for painting" | 104 |
| Multiple Grammy winner who was a contestant on "Dancing With the Stars" | 81 |
| MTV reality show that controversially uses the terms "Guido" and "Guidette" | 95 |
| MRS. HAtty-Cyphert you will amaze at your w*ste line goes invisible vvith these rev/olutionary ___ | 98 |
| Mr. Zog's surfboard grip product that gained notoriety by being banned from schools | 87 |
| Mr. Rosewater in Kurt Vonnegut's "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" | 77 |
| Mr. Peabody's aptly named time machine, as the creators of Rocky and Bullwinkle spelled it | 94 |
| Movie with the tagline "The movie was fake.The mission was real" | 74 |
| Movie with the tagline "A world inside the computer where man has never been. Never before now." | 106 |
| Movie with the refrain "I'm not even supposed to be here today!" | 78 |
| Movie with the opening line "I admire your courage, Miss ...?" | 72 |
| Movie with the line "Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of" | 131 |
| Movie with the line "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" | 83 |
| Movie with the line "I'm a vulgar man. But I assure you, my music is not" | 87 |
| Movie with the first female winner of the Oscar for Best Director, with "The" | 87 |
| Movie whose last lines are "Mediocrities everywhere ... I absolve you." | 81 |
| Movie villain who said "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." | 91 |
| Movie title that describes what happened to the five long entries in this puzzle? | 81 |
| Movie ticket site named after a dance, because why do things need to have anything to do with each other | 104 |
| Movie that was shot in "3-B" -- "three beers and it looks good" | 83 |
| Movie that may be remade again with Beyonce in the Gaynor/Garland/Streisand role | 80 |
| Movie that hit #1 for Worst Actor and Worst Picture in an IMDb 2005 "Worst of" poll | 93 |
| Movie star who said, "I always cry at weddings, especially my own" | 76 |
| Movie robot whose voice was made with an ARP 2600 analog synthesizer, familiarly | 80 |
| Movie org. that created a top-100 list from which all of this puzzle's quotes come | 86 |
| Movie mogul whom Forbes magazine once named the highest-paid man in entertainment | 81 |
| Movie in which Tom Cruise's character is told, "You can't handle the truth" | 93 |
| Movie in which the title character says "The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets" | 92 |
| Movie in which Europe's "The Final Countdown" doesn't actually appear, contrary to popular belief | 115 |
| Movie good guys responsible for the circled squares in eight long puzzle answers | 80 |
| Movie for which Anna Magnani won an Oscar for Best Actress, with "The" | 80 |
| Movie epic that's probably more than you ever wanted to know about poi? | 75 |
| Movie co. behind "Wordplay" and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" | 78 |
| Movie character with more than 400 siblings, all of whom are killed within the first five minutes of the film | 109 |
| Movie character whose line "Walk this way" inspired the Aerosmith song | 80 |
| Movie character who says "The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of" | 75 |
| Movie based on the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" | 72 |
| Movement Herman Wouk called "a single long action of lifesaving" | 74 |
| Mourning who won an NBA championship after receiving a kidney transplant | 72 |
| Mountaintop castle in "Game of Thrones" where Tyrion was imprisoned | 77 |
| Mountaintop castle in "A Game of Thrones," with "the" | 73 |
| Motown star who wrote the lyrics for and sang "The Tears of a Clown" | 78 |
| Mother Goose offerings, or in a different sense, this puzzle's title | 72 |
| Most-distributed publication in the world, with over twice as many copies as The Bible | 86 |
| Most successful recording artist of the 1990s, per "Billboard" | 72 |
| Most recent player to win MVP, All-Star Game MVP, and Finals MVP in one season | 78 |
| Most prone to play "Grand Theft Auto V" and eatDoritos all day | 72 |
| Most of the characters in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" | 78 |
| Most of "The Taming of the Shrew" characters, geographically speaking | 79 |
| 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 |
| Most likely place you'd find REASSESSES in a themeless crossword grid | 73 |
| Morrissey video compilation that translates to "Listen, Steven" | 73 |
| Morrissey album featuring "We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful" | 83 |
| Morricone who scored "The Thing" and "A Fistful of Dollars" | 79 |
| Morning co-host Kelly who was on "All My Children" for 12 years | 73 |
| Morissette song that, by failing to give examples of things that are its title, becomes said title | 98 |
| Morgan who is "too sleepy and self-centered to ever hurt another person," per Tina Fey | 96 |
| Moreno who was the second actress to win an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, and a Tony | 80 |
| Moorish ___ (kind of fish that Willem Dafoe's Gill is, in "Finding Nemo") | 87 |
| Moon that the second Death Star orbited in "Return of the Jedi" | 73 |
| Monthly release [the American Values Club xword is at avxwords.com - subscribe now] | 83 |
| Month that "Peanuts" and the Model T debuted (not the same year) | 74 |
| Monogram of the author of "At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends" | 72 |
| Monogram of the author of "A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House" | 85 |
| Monogram of Peter Parker's publisher boss, in "Spider-Man" | 72 |
| Monogram of a one-time New York governor who became Gerald Ford's vice president | 84 |
| Monkees hit composed by Neil Diamond which was later covered by Smash Mouth | 75 |
| Money from a shark scattered in order in seven of this puzzle's answers | 75 |
| Money ... or a hint to how six crossings in this puzzle are to be represented, superimposing one letter over another | 116 |
| Molecule that sends amino acids to ribosomes ... and a hint to the theme of this puzzle | 87 |
| Molecule key for studying evolutionary relationships between species: Abbr. | 75 |
| Mohawked actor whose voice was in "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" | 79 |
| Modest Mouse "The ocean breathes salty, won't you carry ___?" | 75 |
| Modern-day monarch who addresses her nation on Christmas annually, for short | 76 |
| Modern-day locale of the place where the Santa Maria ran aground in 1492 | 72 |
| Modern dance music that supposedly mixes two genres that I'd be hard-pressed to differentiate, myself | 105 |
| Model who co-wrote the children's book "What Are You Hungry For?" | 79 |
| Model train company that REFUSES to face accusations that their faulty tracks endanger millions of imaginary tiny conductors? | 125 |