| Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Bill Berry and Mike Mills | 52 |
| Michael who directed "14 Up" through "56 Up" | 64 |
| Michael who played Lenny on "Laverne & Shirley" | 61 |
| Michael who sang "I'm a lumberjack and I'm O.K." | 66 |
| Michael who starred in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" | 58 |
| Michael who starred in TV's "It's a Great Life" | 65 |
| Michael who was Klaatu in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" | 67 |
| Michael who won a Pulitzer for "The Killer Angels" | 60 |
| Michael who won an Oscar for "Little Miss Sunshine" | 61 |
| Michael who wrote the 1975 best seller “Power!” | 55 |
| Michael with the memoir "Work in Progress" | 52 |
| Michael ___ Black (regular on VH1's "I Love the X0s") | 67 |
| Michael ___, Bush secretary of health and human services | 56 |
| Michelangelo sculpture famously vandalized in 1972 by Laszlo Toth | 65 |
| Michelangelo's "The Last Judgment," e.g. | 54 |
| Michelangelo's fresco "The Creation of ___" | 57 |
| Michelle Branch's "___ You Happy Now?" | 52 |
| Michelle of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" | 54 |
| Michelle who's the Bond girl in "Tomorrow Never Dies" | 67 |
| Michener book subtitled "Spanish Travels and Reflections" | 67 |
| Michigan city mentioned in Paul Simon's "America" | 63 |
| Michigan city of 50,000 that's home to a Fortune 500 company | 64 |
| Michigan city where the first Domino's Pizza opened | 55 |
| Michigan's 989 is the highest of them in America | 52 |
| Mickey's employer, in "Fantasia" (h,h) | 52 |
| Microsoft chairman who tried to beef up his company? | 52 |
| Microsoft offering with a Home Basic or Ultimate option | 55 |
| Microsystems company forced to cut operating expenses! | 54 |
| Mid-90s arcade basketball game that failed to include Michael Jordan | 68 |
| Mid-American Conference team whose mascot is a kangaroo | 55 |
| Middle America, to some snooty intercoastal travelers | 53 |
| Middle distance runner Steve who won Olympic gold in 1980 | 57 |
| Middle name in the title of a 1979 Best Picture nominee | 55 |
| Middle name of ''The Wizard of Menlo Park'' | 59 |
| Middle name on the cover of the 2012 album "Kiss" | 59 |
| Middle of an Aeschylus trilogy, with "The" | 52 |
| Middle properties on the four sides of a Monopoly board: Abbr. | 62 |
| Mideast capital whose name means "the big tree" | 57 |
| Mideast city whose name, coincidentally, is an anagram of ARABS | 63 |
| Mideast president who wrote "The Battle for Peace," 1981 | 66 |
| Midler and Keaton's costar in "The First Wives Club" | 66 |
| Midwest city in the middle of the I-70/I-71/I-75 triangle | 57 |
| Midwest city which lends its name to a Republican straw poll | 60 |
| Midwest city whose name means "hospitality" | 53 |
| Midwest college town that was an Underground Railroad stop | 58 |
| Midwest metropolis--it has a view of Canada to the south! | 57 |
| Midwest university with 23 team wrestling championships | 55 |
| Midwestern city with the motto "Smart Choice" | 55 |
| Midyear reaction by those who forget their sunglasses? | 54 |
| Miedaner's "The ___ of Anna Klane": 1977 | 54 |
| Mike "Boogie" who won "Big Brother: All Stars" | 66 |
| Mike in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" | 59 |
| Mike who directed "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" | 65 |
| Mike who produced "Around the World in 80 Days" | 57 |
| Mike's pal in "For Better or for Worse" | 53 |
| Mil. alliance with official languages of English and French | 59 |
| Mil. branch whose slogan was "Per Ardua ad Astra" | 59 |
| Mil. group with the slogan "Until Every One Comes Home" | 65 |
| Mil. title literally meaning "holding a place" | 56 |
| Milady de Winter's husband, in "The Three Musketeers" | 67 |
| Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong et al.? | 52 |
| Military alliance that still doesn't include Russia | 55 |
| Military allotment: this puzzle's is 30 "units" | 61 |
| Military base that is home to Cuba's only McDonalds, familiarly | 67 |
| Military branch with the motto "Semper Paratus" | 57 |
| Military computer built under the codename "Project PX" | 65 |
| Military detention base in many campaigns, informally | 53 |
| Military group whose code word was "Geronimo" | 55 |
| Military haircut that doesn't leave a mark on the scalp? | 60 |
| Military intelligence, e.g., according to George Carlin | 55 |
| Military medal featuring George Washington's profile | 56 |
| Military mess assignment, and this puzzle's title | 53 |
| Military org. with the motto "Per ardua ad astra" | 59 |
| Military unit comprised of Getz, Laurel, Musial and Mikita? | 59 |
| Milky Way phenomenon believed to occur almost weekly | 52 |
| Millan who's known as "the Dog Whisperer" | 55 |
| Millennia-old Jordanian city that's a World Heritage Site | 61 |
| Miller's "S.N.L." "Weekend Update" successor | 68 |
| Millionairess portrayer in "The Millionairess" | 56 |
| Milli___ (the amount of beauty required to launch one ship) | 59 |
| Milo of Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet" | 60 |
| Milton called it "The flood of deadly hate" | 53 |
| Milton's "___ the Morning of Christ's Nativity" | 65 |
| Milwaukee point guard moonlighting as a quarterback? | 52 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence song about going after something? | 58 |
| Mine has Thin Lizzy's "Jailbreak" on it | 53 |
| Mineral found in igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks | 60 |
| Ming ___, of public television's show "Simply Ming" | 65 |
| Ming's 7'6" and Bryant's 6'6", e.g.: Abbr. | 68 |
| Ming, the oldest animal ever discovered (400+ years), was one | 61 |
| Mini-Me portrayer in the Austin Powers movies born on January 1, 1969 | 69 |
| Minimum number required to transact business legally | 52 |
| Minnelli with a brilliant role on "Arrested Development" | 66 |
| Minnesota city SW of Minneapolis so named for its fertile soil | 62 |
| Minnesota city that shares a harbor with Superior, Wis. | 55 |
| Minnesota city where part of "Fargo" was filmed | 57 |
| Minnesota city where the first Target store opened [Spain] | 58 |
| Minnesota Fats's player in "The Hustler" | 54 |
| Minnesota Twin who won seven American League batting titles | 59 |
| Minor league hoops org. for the Idaho Stampede and Dakota Wizards | 65 |