| Mich. city that's lost half its population in the past fifty years | 70 |
| Musical featuring "I Hate Men," "So in Love," etc. | 70 |
| Marlee __, Best Actress winner in "Children of a Lesser God" | 70 |
| Much-feared (but not actually known to be harmful) Asian food additive | 70 |
| Mathematician John who was the subject of "A Beautiful Mind" | 70 |
| Micronesian nation that hosted the 10th season of "Survivor" | 70 |
| Michael who directed the Bond film "The World Is Not Enough" | 70 |
| Musical with the song "There Is Life Outside Your Apartment" | 70 |
| Mini Oscar winner for "Spirit and personification of youth." | 70 |
| Music subgenre whose lyrics contain a metaphor, pause, and a punchline | 70 |
| Mandela's co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, F. W. de ___ | 70 |
| Meals shipped from Maine with every fleece vest or backpack purchased? | 70 |
| Madame ___ ("Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" character) | 70 |
| Mantra for someone confused and angered by "This Old House"? | 70 |
| Movie rated the top musical of all time by the American Film Institute | 70 |
| Military response style in which the first and last words are the same | 70 |
| Music channel host whose abbreviation hints at this puzzle's theme | 70 |
| Movie with the Oscar-nominated song "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" | 70 |
| Movie line spoken by Renée Zellweger after "Just shut up" | 70 |
| Mercutio and Roméo, in Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" | 71 |
| Musical from which Jay-Z took the sample in "Hard Knock Life" | 71 |
| Maria's love in the 1996 Tony-winning play "Master Class" | 71 |
| Midwest city that is host to the annual Pitchfork Music Fesitval: Abbr. | 71 |
| Major-league team with the most season losses, 120, in the 20th century | 71 |
| Measure that resulted in English, French, and Spanish labeling on goods | 71 |
| Masha and Irina's sister in Chekhov's "Three Sisters" | 71 |
| Macy Gray's "Gimme All Your Lovin' ___ Will Kill You" | 71 |
| Music genre eligible for the Grammy for Best Regional Roots Music Album | 71 |
| Mule celebrated in song for her work "from Albany to Buffalo" | 71 |
| Michael Jackson song dedicated to a prickly conservative/droning actor? | 71 |
| Mitchell song that ends "I really don't know life at all" | 71 |
| Mock a Swiss lass, in the style of Nelson from "The Simpsons" | 71 |
| Mixed drink #3: A leap across the bay (mint, bourbon, sugar, and water) | 71 |
| Matthew Broderick's "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" costar | 71 |
| Model Taylor who was on the cover of six fashion mags in the same month | 71 |
| Mop maker that "makes your life easier," according to its ads | 71 |
| Move like a co-worker of Elaine's on a "Seinfeld" episode | 71 |
| Monty Pythoner who exploded big-time in "The Meaning of Life" | 71 |
| Movie about a "Sopranos"-like actress from the Mediterranean? | 71 |
| Maroon 5, if two members were crushed by a piano (hey, a guy can dream) | 71 |
| Mourning who won an NBA championship after receiving a kidney transplant | 72 |
| Mate, and a hint to the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers | 72 |
| Monogram of the author of "At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends" | 72 |
| Movie with the opening line "I admire your courage, Miss ...?" | 72 |
| Musical dedicatee whose true identity is the subject of much speculation | 72 |
| Modern-day locale of the place where the Santa Maria ran aground in 1492 | 72 |
| Michele whose Twitter describes her as a "Streisand Worshiper" | 72 |
| Musical about the eccentric widow of Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside | 72 |
| Michelangelo sculpture whose subject is in a pose suggesting drunkenness | 72 |
| Movie based on the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" | 72 |
| Mineral found on Mars in 1998 that suggests the former presence of water | 72 |
| Most prone to play "Grand Theft Auto V" and eatDoritos all day | 72 |
| Monogram of Peter Parker's publisher boss, in "Spider-Man" | 72 |
| Most successful recording artist of the 1990s, per "Billboard" | 72 |
| Murray, Akroyd, Ramis, and Weaver's "Ghostbusters" co-star | 72 |
| Mother Goose offerings, or in a different sense, this puzzle's title | 72 |
| Magician, and word whose ten letters make up every answer in this puzzle | 72 |
| Market value of a company's assets divided by their replacement cost | 72 |
| Magazine with the subtitle "The Best of the Alternative Press" | 72 |
| Mika Brzezinski's dad who was Carter's national security advisor | 72 |
| Most likely place you'd find REASSESSES in a themeless crossword grid | 73 |
| Moon that the second Death Star orbited in "Return of the Jedi" | 73 |
| Mountaintop castle in "A Game of Thrones," with "the" | 73 |
| Magazine with an annual list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies | 73 |
| Manicurist in Palmolive ads who said "You're soaking in it" | 73 |
| Maligned additive that the FDA "generally recognize[s] as safe" | 73 |
| Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon character that debuted in 2001 | 73 |
| Morning co-host Kelly who was on "All My Children" for 12 years | 73 |
| Manson "family" member who attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford | 73 |
| Minced oath coined by Norman Mailer in "The Naked and the Dead" | 73 |
| Morrissey video compilation that translates to "Listen, Steven" | 73 |
| My favorite cheap beer, for short (just sayin', if you're buying) | 73 |
| March figure ... or, when split into three parts, a title for this puzzle | 73 |
| Mike ___ ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" boy from Arizona) | 73 |
| Mad scientist's sadistic exclamation upon attacking the Empire State? | 73 |
| Mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the quintic equation | 74 |
| Movie with the tagline "The movie was fake.The mission was real" | 74 |
| Musketeer Salim imagined himself to be, in "Slumdog Millionaire" | 74 |
| Miami Dolphins Hall of Famer who co-hosted "American Gladiators" | 74 |
| Magazine that runs a spread for every winner of "Project Runway" | 74 |
| Month that "Peanuts" and the Model T debuted (not the same year) | 74 |
| Milo who played a Supreme Court Chief Justice on "The West Wing" | 74 |
| Mystery author whose work has been translated into more than 100 languages | 74 |
| Michael C. ___ (flatware company that provides prizes for many game shows) | 74 |
| Manson follower and would-be Ford assassin Lynette "Squeaky" ___ | 74 |
| Male protagonist in William Inge's "Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff" | 74 |
| Member of a duo that "went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat" | 74 |
| Massachusetts town on Lake Chargoggagogg-manchauggagogg-chaubunagungamaugg | 74 |
| Movement Herman Wouk called "a single long action of lifesaving" | 74 |
| Modest Mouse "The ocean breathes salty, won't you carry ___?" | 75 |
| Member of the inaugural class of inductees to the National Toy Hall of Fame | 75 |
| Medium in which the Reverend Brendan Powell Smith builds his Bible dioramas | 75 |
| Money from a shark scattered in order in seven of this puzzle's answers | 75 |
| Mitt's, Michelle's, Herman's, Tim's and Rick's opponent | 75 |
| Mathematical field that includes the so-called "butterfly effect" | 75 |
| Mathematician Pierre whose "last theorem" took 358 years to prove | 75 |
| Midwestern city that's the title of a song in "The Music Man" | 75 |
| Monkees hit composed by Neil Diamond which was later covered by Smash Mouth | 75 |
| Michael who memorized the patterns of the "Press Your Luck" board | 75 |
| Mississippi petulantly observes it in tandem with Robert E. Lee's birth | 75 |