| Many activists' concerns: Abbr. | 35 |
| Medicinal plant with yellow flowers | 35 |
| Mentor in spiritual topics, perhaps | 35 |
| Middle Eastern king deposed in 1964 | 35 |
| Musical instrument inventor Adolphe | 35 |
| Movie about the most gorgeous oboe? | 35 |
| Make -- for (try to win at auction) | 35 |
| Mexican village of Spanish conquest | 35 |
| Musical group that sticks together? | 35 |
| Marketers' "language" | 35 |
| Movies like "Unfaithful"? | 35 |
| May-December romance characteristic | 35 |
| Make ___ for oneself (achieve fame) | 35 |
| Masonry that requires little mortar | 35 |
| Memoirs of a relaxed fly fisherman? | 35 |
| Medical public intellectual Gawande | 35 |
| Marge's sister, to Bart Simpson | 35 |
| Mideast capital apt for this puzzle | 35 |
| Missed some of the action, in a way | 35 |
| Matinee idol in "Darling" | 35 |
| Minnesota city in "Fargo" | 35 |
| M.I.T.'s class ring, familiarly | 35 |
| Market activity, in winter business | 35 |
| Mind-set for a golfer wary of sand? | 35 |
| Make someone pay to hear your voice | 35 |
| Method of convertible hair control? | 35 |
| Musial's 6 and Gibson's 45? | 35 |
| Members of a Carolina Indian nation | 35 |
| Meal pack that often contains fries | 35 |
| Mineral used in making refractories | 35 |
| Macho beer-drinker's outerwear? | 35 |
| Member of the "cavil-ry"? | 35 |
| Modern multiple-language discipline | 35 |
| Mysterious art visible from the sky | 35 |
| Makes one's point without delay | 35 |
| Miley of "Hannah Montana" | 35 |
| Make really uncomfortable, in a way | 35 |
| Maryland town on the Chesapeake Bay | 35 |
| Multi-award-winning role for Ferrer | 35 |
| Momentum in Hagel's department? | 35 |
| Makes something better in a big way | 35 |
| Missive leading to military service | 35 |
| Minnesota's fourth-largest city | 35 |
| Magic Johnson's real first name | 35 |
| Milton, Shelley and Gray, for three | 35 |
| M.V.P. of Super Bowls XLII and XLVI | 35 |
| More thickly grown with shade trees | 35 |
| Menace that isn't very menacing | 35 |
| Made up of loosely linked incidents | 35 |
| Mauriac's "___ Blood" | 35 |
| Many look forward to them regularly | 35 |
| Minnesota Timberwolf all-star Kevin | 35 |
| Maker of the Fructis hair care line | 35 |
| Memo to a sluggish walnut processor | 35 |
| Multiplex owner's note to self? | 35 |
| Met who won the 1985 Cy Young Award | 35 |
| Member of a group opposed to ageism | 35 |
| Middleweight champ of '20's | 35 |
| Muslim who knows the Koran by heart | 35 |
| Marques of the Harlem Globetrotters | 35 |
| Marilu of "Evening Shade" | 35 |
| Miraculous cry at a revival meeting | 35 |
| Menzel on TV's "Glee" | 35 |
| Mrs. Stork's post-trip comment? | 35 |
| Middle name of Lenin or Tchaikovsky | 35 |
| Monkees hit written by Neil Diamond | 35 |
| Mad spoof of a Clint Eastwood film? | 35 |
| Menachem Begin's one-time group | 35 |
| Manhattan on St. Patrick's Day? | 35 |
| Master of Disaster's ring rival | 35 |
| Musical diatribe from the bathroom? | 35 |
| Made a misleading move, in football | 35 |
| Madame Defarge's sinister craft | 35 |
| McCain's fellow Arizona senator | 35 |
| March 25, in the Christian calendar | 35 |
| Mini poodles and toy terriers, e.g. | 35 |
| Monogram in the news: Nov. 22, 1963 | 35 |
| Magritte's "___ Fixe" | 35 |
| Ms. Caron's role and namesakes | 35 |
| Mexicali, Ensenada, La Paz and more | 35 |
| Maximum ebb of the ocean's flow | 35 |
| Milk of ___ (medicine cabinet item) | 35 |
| Michael Jordan began college as one | 35 |
| Molière's "Le ___" | 35 |
| Measure of national economic health | 35 |
| Monument carved from a single stone | 35 |
| Maugham novel, with "The" | 35 |
| Maugham title, with "The" | 35 |
| Memento ___ (reminder of mortality) | 35 |
| Make more powerful, as a wheelchair | 35 |
| Most populous county in New England | 35 |
| Moving like a dog in a narrow tube? | 35 |
| Main international airport of Japan | 35 |
| Mammal that's long in the tooth | 35 |
| Mineral salt found in dry lake beds | 35 |
| March Madness, with "the" | 35 |
| Made out with a barbershop quartet? | 35 |
| Milne's "___ Are Six" | 35 |
| More of the question with a calling | 35 |
| Multiple-company building, to Brits | 35 |