| 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 |
| Mascot for Sting, or a cookie company's expansion into precious metals? | 75 |
| Metaphorical talk show area of which each of the theme entries steers clear | 75 |
| MATURE, FUN-LOVING man, smoker, music lover. Come share a palatial home ... | 75 |
| Molecule key for studying evolutionary relationships between species: Abbr. | 75 |
| Movie character who says "The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of" | 75 |
| Many thoroughfares ... or what this puzzle's Across answers consist of? | 75 |
| Movie epic that's probably more than you ever wanted to know about poi? | 75 |
| Member of the 2007 Women's N.C.A.A. champion basketball team, for short | 75 |
| Movie star who said, "I always cry at weddings, especially my own" | 76 |
| Mythical figure represented in Vermeer's "The Art of Painting" | 76 |
| Mathematician who introduced the symbol e for the base of natural logarithms | 76 |
| Museum featuring the works mentioned above, which opened on October 21, 1959 | 76 |
| Mizrahi who groped Scarlett Johansson's breast at the 2006 Golden Globes | 76 |
| MMA fighter John (don't know if he's related to baseball player Mel) | 76 |
| Modern-day monarch who addresses her nation on Christmas annually, for short | 76 |
| Miniseries whose final episode was the 3rd-most-watched show in U.S. history | 76 |
| Many skiers use these when they [see diagonal starting in upper left corner] | 76 |
| Medical procedure done while reading "The Outcasts of Poker Flat?" | 76 |
| Mexican cooking ingredients called "flores de calabaza" in Spanish | 76 |
| Minor planets whose orbits are farther from the sun than the farthest planet | 76 |
| Mark who said "Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company" | 76 |
| Mean-sounding Elvis Costello solo album on NPR's Best Music of 2002 list | 76 |
| Musical with the song "Slide Some Oil to Me," with "The" | 76 |
| Mr. Rosewater in Kurt Vonnegut's "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" | 77 |
| Master P's son who used to have "Lil'" in front of his name | 77 |
| Man refuses to supply photo on Internet dating service; ref cites him for ... | 77 |
| Manned space mission that gets carried out in the 1984 movie "2010" | 77 |
| Many people get one in the summer (and so do this puzzle's theme entries) | 77 |
| Mountaintop castle in "Game of Thrones" where Tyrion was imprisoned | 77 |
| Masked hero who debuted in the 1919 story "The Curse of Capistrano" | 77 |
| Michael Jackson "it doesn't matter who's wrong or right" hit | 78 |
| Mad cow disease or, if you prefer a less off-putting clue, Indian trading org. | 78 |
| Movie with the refrain "I'm not even supposed to be here today!" | 78 |
| Most of the characters in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" | 78 |
| Middle Eastern resident who sounds like something Little Miss Muffet would eat | 78 |
| Mockingjay holding an arrow in a circle for "The Hunger Games," e.g. | 78 |
| Most recent player to win MVP, All-Star Game MVP, and Finals MVP in one season | 78 |
| My wife's third most-hated band (behind Big Country and Phil Collins solo) | 78 |
| Material my stepfather's old Ford Pinto was made of, or so it seemed to me | 78 |
| Murderer in P.D.Q. Bach's spoof opera "A Little Nightmare Music" | 78 |