| Musician awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011 | 58 |
| Musician Brian who has a critic alter ego Dick Flash | 52 |
| Musician Brian who uses the pseudonyms Nina Bore and Ben O'Rian | 67 |
| Musician Brian who wrote "A Year with Swollen Appendices" | 67 |
| Musician descended from Herman Melville (hence the name) | 56 |
| Musician for whom New Orleans's airport is named | 52 |
| Musician Hoyt ___ (who also appeared in "Gremlins") | 61 |
| Musician in a "Spirit of '76" painting | 52 |
| Musician on whom Gus Van Sant's "Last Days" is based | 66 |
| Musician who appears in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" | 65 |
| Musician who arranged the theme for "2001" | 52 |
| Musician who co-founded the Long Now Foundation charity | 55 |
| Musician who still lives in the Dakota, next to Central Park | 60 |
| Musician who won a 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom | 53 |
| Musician whose first name is Japanese for "ocean child" | 65 |
| Musician whose statue stands in New Orleans's French Quarter | 64 |
| Musician whose unusual first name means "ocean child" | 63 |
| Musician with the 1939 hit "Jumpin' at the Woodside" | 66 |
| Musician with the 1974 album "Here Come the Warm Jets" | 64 |
| Musician with the 2011 album "Truth of Touch" | 55 |
| Musician with the album "Here Come the Warm Jets" | 59 |
| Musician with the album "If I Could Tell You" | 55 |
| Musician with the first record formally certified as a million-seller | 69 |
| Musician with the gold-selling album "Sugar Lips" | 59 |
| Musketeer that smells nice, according to Estée Lauder | 56 |
| Muslim name that means "successor to Muhammad" | 56 |
| Mussorgsky's "Pictures ___ Exhibition" | 52 |
| Mustachioed villain who's a bit of a pantywaist? | 52 |
| My grandfather registered one for a voltage regulator circuit | 61 |
| My nickname in elementary school; or, perform a moviemaking task | 64 |
| My response to feeling bad about Maynard James Keenan's band? | 65 |
| Myers who wrote "Why Women Should Rule the World" | 59 |
| Myles and Lemay hit, "You Can Give it _________" | 60 |
| MySpace president Anderson who always shows up as a first friend | 64 |
| Mysterious "Ivanhoe" character, with "the" | 62 |
| Mystery Person would sometimes compose symphonies ... | 53 |
| Mystery writer who created the character Kate Fansler | 53 |
| Mythical city of riches searched for by Sir Walter Raleigh | 58 |
| Mythical liquid whose touch meant instant death to mortals | 58 |
| Mythical mascot of the College of William & Mary | 52 |
| Mythical queen of Thebes who raised her nephew Dionysus | 55 |
| Mythical realm on one end of the rainbow bridge Bifrost | 55 |
| Mythical setting of perfection described by Sir Thomas More | 59 |
| Mythical spring of restoration sought by Ponce de León | 57 |
| Mythological figure being kissed in a statue at the Louvre | 58 |
| Mythological figure often depicted holding a kithara | 52 |
| Mythological hunter turned into a stag and killed by his own dogs | 65 |
| Mythological huntress who married the winner of a footrace | 58 |
| Mythological racer who picked up three golden apples | 52 |
| Mythological Theban with a chemical element named after her | 59 |
| Mythological trickster who was punished by being held to a rock | 63 |
| Mythology's Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, with "the" | 67 |