| Magazine whose name sounds like a letter of the alphabet | 56 |
| Magazine whose premiere issue featured an Isaac Asimov story | 60 |
| Magazine with "Decor" and "Girl" spin-offs | 62 |
| Magazine with a "Best Places to Live" feature | 55 |
| Magazine with a "Cheers & Jeers" section | 54 |
| Magazine with an annual "500|5000" conference | 55 |
| Magazine with an annual "Sexiest Man Alive" feature | 61 |
| Magazine with the column "Jay Leno's Garage" | 58 |
| Magazine written by "the usual gang of idiots" | 56 |
| Magazine written by the "usual gang of idiots" | 56 |
| Maggie Smith's costar in "Travels With My Aunt" | 61 |
| Magic instrument Jack stole on his third trip up the beanstalk | 62 |
| Magic words ... or a hint to the other long answers in this puzzle | 66 |
| Magical substance in "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" | 62 |
| Magician who competed on "Dancing with the Stars" | 59 |
| Magistrate in Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel" | 61 |
| Magnate "Citizen Kane" was partly based on | 52 |
| Magnate who financed the building of the Olympic Tower | 54 |
| Magnetic induction unit named after a German mathematician | 58 |
| Magnificent tool for dealing with hybrid cars in a chop shop? | 61 |
| Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas ___ pipe" | 54 |
| Maid of honor at William and Kate's 2011 wedding | 52 |
| Maiden name of the Steinbeck character Rose of Sharon Casy | 58 |
| Mail conveniences ... or a hint to eight squares in this puzzle | 63 |
| Mail service made obsolete by the transcontinental telegraph | 60 |
| Mail-order publications for those who make kids' sandwiches? | 64 |
| Mailer's subject in ''The Fight'' | 53 |
| Mailing a letter or picking up a quart of milk, e.g. | 52 |
| Main campus site of the University of the South Pacific | 55 |
| Main character in "The Chronicles of Narnia" | 54 |
| Main character in "The Vampire Chronicles" | 52 |
| Main character in Elmer Rice's "The Adding Machine" | 65 |
| Main character in Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" | 64 |
| Main character in Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" | 69 |
| Main character in the video game "Assassin's Creed II" | 68 |
| Main character of the 2010 film "Winter's Bone" | 61 |
| Main character of TV's "The Pretender" | 52 |
| Main monster in "Where the Wild Things Are" | 53 |
| Maine radio station whose call letters spell a pronoun | 54 |
| Maj. that both of this puzzle's authors have college degs. in | 65 |
| Majestically named pro wrestling event held annually since 1988 | 63 |
| Major character in the bestseller "Disney War" | 56 |
| Major contributor to Central Park's Strawberry Fields | 57 |
| Major corporation that was headquartered in Pennsylvania | 56 |
| Major League Baseball announcement recognizing top performance | 62 |
| Major lending org. after the subprime mortgage crisis | 53 |
| Major point on the Oregon Trail (with "The") | 54 |
| Major section of the "Seventy-Six Trombones" band | 59 |
| Major-league manager who won World Series in both leagues | 57 |
| Majority of the contestants on "The Dating Game" | 58 |
| Make a change in a restaurant's postmeal offerings? | 55 |
| Make a chart indicating how tall Kobe's teammates are? | 58 |
| Make a pop star eat the meat dress she wore, on the piano? | 58 |
| Make an abrupt change ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 63 |
| Make bootleg copies of "Grand Canyon Suite"? | 54 |
| Make mentioned in "We Didn't Start the Fire" | 58 |
| Make two hands out of one in this puzzle's card game | 56 |
| Make with "December to remember" sales events | 55 |
| Make, as money + a letter + sheltered bay + chopper = ? | 55 |
| Maker of the first car with seat belts as a standard feature | 60 |
| Maker of the Official Mint Julep of the Kentucky Derby | 54 |
| Maker of violins used by Paganini, Heifetz, and Perlman | 55 |
| Makers of the Do-It-Yourself Tornado Kit and Earthquake Pills | 61 |
| Makers of the Giant Rubber Band and Dehydrated Boulders | 55 |
| Makes a choice [and one more example of this puzzle's theme] | 64 |
| Makes messy, on "You Can't Do That on Television" | 63 |
| Makes more in-your-face commercials, in Madison Avenue-speak | 60 |
| Makes sacrifices on behalf of a telecommunications company? | 59 |
| Makes temporarily nonfunctional, as a bathroom mirror | 53 |
| Makeup of Martha's Vineyard's Gay Head Cliffs | 53 |
| Makeup of the left and right sides of Pascal's triangle | 59 |
| Malady brought on by incorrectly plugging in appliances? | 56 |
| Malcolm's mom on "Malcolm in the Middle" | 54 |
| Malcolm's role in "A Clockwork Orange" | 52 |
| Malcolm-___ Warner of ''The Cosby Show'' | 56 |
| Male name from the Hebrew for "without honor" | 55 |
| Maleficent's pet raven in "Sleeping Beauty" | 57 |
| Mall map phrase, and a homophonic hint to this puzzle's theme | 65 |
| Mall store that caters to "the choosy floozy"? | 56 |
| Mallory's big brother on "Family Ties" | 52 |
| Malt beverage whose name is Russian for "winter" | 58 |
| Malt beverage whose name means "winter" in Russian | 60 |
| Maltese currency replaced by the euro on January 1, 2008 | 56 |
| Malware worm that recently hit Iran's nuclear plant | 55 |
| Mama's boy on "What's Happening!!" | 52 |
| Mammal that's trained by the author of "Superfudge"? | 66 |
| Mammal whose full name means "river horse" | 52 |
| Man for whom Miss Liberty's island was once named | 53 |
| Man to "tell 'em what they won" on many game shows | 64 |
| Man who penned this puzzleÂ’s lines, born August 6, 1809 | 59 |
| Man's name meaning "One who hears well" | 53 |
| Man's name starting with the last letter of the alphabet | 60 |
| Man's name that becomes another man's name if read backward | 67 |
| Man's name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet | 59 |
| Man's name that spells another man's name backward | 58 |
| Man's name that's another man's name backward | 57 |
| Man's name that's Latin for "honey" | 53 |
| Man's nickname that is German for "level" | 55 |
| Man, according to a longtime Desmond Morris best-seller | 55 |
| Manager featured in "Three Nights in August" | 54 |