| Maugham's "___ Nesbit" | 36 |
| Marilyn Monroe's real first name | 36 |
| Minding everyone else's business | 36 |
| Mr. ___ (moniker for Andrei Gromyko) | 36 |
| Mount Ka'ala is its highest peak | 36 |
| Michelle Robinson's married name | 36 |
| Much too big for one's britches? | 36 |
| Musicians whom orchestras tune up to | 36 |
| Musical instrument with finger holes | 36 |
| More than 70% of Earth's surface | 36 |
| Mendelssohn's Opus 20 and others | 36 |
| Main port for grain from the Ukraine | 36 |
| Meaning of wavy lines, in the comics | 36 |
| Molding that sounds like two letters | 36 |
| Maureen of "The Quiet Man" | 36 |
| Maker of Definity skin care products | 36 |
| Message board "Holy shit!" | 36 |
| Melville novel set on a whaling ship | 36 |
| Melville novel set in the South Seas | 36 |
| Marine ___ (presidential helicopter) | 36 |
| Mark on an otherwise perfect record? | 36 |
| Marker-to-marker highway measurement | 36 |
| Moira's "Chaplin" role | 36 |
| Many people like to take these apart | 36 |
| Missouri river to the Missouri River | 36 |
| Milo of "Romeo and Juliet" | 36 |
| Mount rising above the Vale of Tempe | 36 |
| Modern slang for "applaud" | 36 |
| Maker of Good Grips kitchen utensils | 36 |
| Musical based on an O'Hara novel | 36 |
| Most popular street name in the U.S. | 36 |
| Morita of "The Karate Kid" | 36 |
| Mani-___ (salon specialty, slangily) | 36 |
| Memento from a bill-signing ceremony | 36 |
| Matt Gaffney Crossword Contest prize | 36 |
| Major lobbyist against generic drugs | 36 |
| Master's pursuit, perhaps: Abbr. | 36 |
| Michelangelo's Mother of Sorrows | 36 |
| Masterpiece in the Duomo at Florence | 36 |
| Muppet trio The Oinker Sisters, e.g. | 36 |
| Murmurers in Longfellow's forest | 36 |
| March of Dimes' original crusade | 36 |
| Matters of mass appeal, collectively | 36 |
| Mulcahy on "M*A*S*H," e.g. | 36 |
| Makes nervous (with "out") | 36 |
| Makeup of some gems and wristwatches | 36 |
| Milieu of "The Answer Man" | 36 |
| Many a tune in "The Sting" | 36 |
| Member of the Eastern establishment? | 36 |
| Motorcycle-daredevil's apparatus | 36 |
| Many a dreadlocks wearer, informally | 36 |
| Martha of TV's "Alice" | 36 |
| McCarthy's least favorite color? | 36 |
| Menswear that makes a bold statement | 36 |
| Music for which Peter Tosh is famous | 36 |
| Madrid's ___ SofÃa Art Center | 36 |
| Musical based on 'La Boheme' | 36 |
| Monthly struggle for unsigned rocker | 36 |
| Member of Cong. with a two-year term | 36 |
| Martha's Vineyard, in the summer | 36 |
| Manipulates the outcome of a contest | 36 |
| Monogram of Dr. Jekyll's creator | 36 |
| Monogram for Blind Pew's creator | 36 |
| Michael Steele's dominion: Abbr. | 36 |
| Major purchaser of McCain ads: Abbr. | 36 |
| Motorist who uses more than one lane | 36 |
| Male elephant seal, in mating season | 36 |
| Marcello Mastroianni's home town | 36 |
| Macaulay Culkin's acting brother | 36 |
| Many are buried at Westminster Abbey | 36 |
| Mnemonic for this puzzle's theme | 36 |
| Mail carrier's assignment: Abbr. | 36 |
| Main ingredient in pirates' grog | 36 |
| Mysterious, as some old inscriptions | 36 |
| Movies' "Elephant Boy" | 36 |
| Meistersinger Hans: 1494–1576 | 36 |
| Miss Kitty's place of employment | 36 |
| Mother of Bristol, Willow, and Piper | 36 |
| Mitchell of "Step by Step" | 36 |
| Milan's famed La ___ Opera House | 36 |
| Milan's Met, with "La" | 36 |
| Mexican treat at Van Cortlandt Park? | 36 |
| More precise alternative to scissors | 36 |
| Middle section of "Hamlet" | 36 |
| Missed ___ (blew one's entrance) | 36 |
| Muslims learned in religious matters | 36 |
| Mariah Carey "___ My Baby" | 36 |
| Meaning of "Semper Liberi" | 36 |
| Macapá is its capital (in Brazil) | 36 |
| Med student's hands-on workplace | 36 |
| Musical response/opposed to a faker? | 36 |
| Make a textbook clearer with charts? | 36 |
| Merle Oberon/Paul Muni movie of 1945 | 36 |
| Malamud novel (with "The") | 36 |
| Mechanic's 50-minute evaluation? | 36 |
| Much-derided early 2000s Pontiac SUV | 36 |
| Massage for a person who's prone | 36 |
| Model for an '85 Warhol painting | 36 |
| Miss America could be considered one | 36 |
| Modern Italian novelist Giuseppe ___ | 36 |