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- Main squeeze, in newer slang
- ___ Majesty
- Major research lab for astronauts, for short
- Major tech purchases on Black Friday
- Make "Vroom!," as an engine
- Make a boo-boo
- Make a choice
- Make a fast not last?
- Make a mistake
- Make free (of), maybe
- Make haste, to Shakespeare
- Make it or break it
- Make it?
- Make like a frog
- Make out, perhaps?
- Make public, as a grievance
- Make sense, with "up"
- Make some calls
- Make sure not to miss it!
- Maker of the i4 and i5
- Maker of the old Flying Cloud auto
- Makeshift seat at a campfire
- Makeshift tip collector
- Makeup of some face masks
- Makeup of some shelves
- Making money or becoming famous, maybe
- Making out openly or a mobile device, in brief
- Mal de ___
- Male meower
- Malediction
- Mammoth's home, for short
- ___-Man
- Man's "monkey suit"
- Man's name that, like Otto, is also an Italian number
- "Man, I tell ya!"
- Manage moguls, say
- "Mangia!"
- Manhattan liquor
- Manhattan-based media org.
- Manipulate
- Manning who threw the "Helmet Catch"
- Mantou or bao, in Chinese cuisine
- ___-Manuel Miranda
- "Many ___" (50 Cent hit)
- Many a book fair sponsor, for short
- Many a craft beer, for short
- Many a foreign aid grp.
- Many a golden parachute recipient, in brief
- Many a groan-inducing joke
- Many a hedge fund hire, in brief
- Many a kid's gift
- Many a nonfiction Oscar nominee, informally
- Many a participant in the 2025 "6-7" trend
- Many a PC file
- Many a professional office: Abbr.
- Many a sleepless night
- Many a social media antagonist, sadly
- Many a time
- Many a Wordsworth poem
- Many a Yeshiva student
- Many an "SVU" extra
- Many an animated meme loop
- Many an attachment
- Many an August birth
- Many an embedded animation
- Many an extra in the "Lord of the Rings" movies
- Many characters on "Scrubs": Abbr.
- Many moons ___
- Many Ph.D.s-to-be, for short
- Many sci-fi villains, informally
- Many web banners
- Map legend
- Map lines: Abbr.
- Map word in Marseille
- Maple syrup base
- Maple tree harvest
- Maps or Notes, e.g.
- Mardi Gras accessory
- Mardi Gras day, in brief
- Margaret featured in "Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution"
- ___Mari Method (tidying system)
- ___ Maria (coffee liqueur)
- ___ Maria, dark coffee liqueur
- Mariners' domain
- Mario has a red "M" on his
- "Mark Twain" biographer Chernow
- Mark, as an option on a questionnaire
- Marketing creations
- ___ Maroni, Gotham City mobster in the DC Comics universe
- Married
- Married title
- Mars, but not Earth
- Marshall Mathers ___ Eminem
- Marshland
- Martial arts master Bruce
- Martín Espada's "___ to the Soccer Ball Sailing Over a Barbed Wire Fence"
- "Marvy!"
- Maryland governor Moore
- ___ Marzano tomato
- Mass ___ (Boston thoroughfare)
- Mass. summer setting
- Massachusetts' Cape ___
- Massachusetts' state tree
- Masthead figs.
- Matcha or Darjeeling
- Mate
- Material for a roof repair
- Material for the woodman in "The Wizard of Oz"
- Mathematical constant equal to two times pi
- Mathematician Lovelace
- Mathematician Terence
- Mathematician Terence, winner of the 2006 Fields Medal
- Mattress or memo follower
- Max
- Max's opposite
- ___ Max, singer of the 2018 hit "Sweet but Psycho"
- ___ Max, singer with the 2018 hit "Sweet but Psycho"
- Maximum degree in math
- May day celebrant
- May honoree
- Maybes
- McKellen who played Gandalf
- "Me, that's ___!"
- Me-time destination
- Meadow
- "Mean Girls" character Janis ___
- Meander mindlessly (about)
- Meaning of "mono-"
- Means of making some connections, for short
- Measure of a country's economic output, for short
- Measure of engine speed, in brief
- Meat in a sushi taco
- Med. diagnostic
- Media exec Sarandos
- Mediator between the id and the ideal, in Freudian psychology
- Medic
- Medical moniker
- Medical pros: Abbr.
- Medical research ctr.
- Medicinal amt.
- Medicine-approving grp.
- Mediocre, in modern slang
- Meditation sounds
- Meditation syllables
- Meditative chants
- Mediterranean, for one
- Meeting of the minds?
- Mega Man console, informally
- Mellow, in a way
- Melted marshmallow, e.g.
- Member of a Tolkien army
- Member of la familia
- Member of the fam
- Memoirist Anaïs who wrote "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage"
- Memorable period
- Menacing creature in "The Lord of the Rings"
- Menial worker in a big company, metaphorically
- Menopause treatment option, in brief
- Mental cloud
- Mental health org.
- Mentions directly, on X
- Mermaid's milieu
- Mesh
- Mesozoic or Paleozoic
- Mess (with)
- Mess around a sty
- Mess up
- Message that might be signaled with smoke
- Messenger
- Messy dorm room, figuratively
- Messy home for pigs
- Messy, muddy home
- Metaphor for slipperiness
- MetLife Stadium team, on scoreboards
- Metric for a venture capitalist, in brief
- Metric measurements: Abbr.
- ___-Mex cuisine
- Michigan, in Chicago: Abbr.
- Microdosing drug
- Microscopic
- Middle name for Lennon starting in 1969
- Middle name shared by Sean and John Lennon
- Middle-earth foe
- Middle: Abbr.
- Mideast export
- Mideast inits.
- Mideast shrub with leaves that are chewed as a stimulant
- "Midsommar" director Aster
- Mien
- Might
- "Might I ___ …"
- Mil. authority
- Mild oath
- Military rank above cpl.
- ___ milk
- Milliner's handiwork
- Mimic
- "Mind your ___ beeswax!"
- Minecraft block crafted using gunpowder and sand
- Minecraft resource
- Mined find
- ___ Minella ("The Muppet Show" Muppet)
- Ming in the Basketball Hall of Fame
- Ming-Na of 1998's "Mulan"
- Mini maker
- Mini-albums
- Mini-albums, for short
- Mini-gulp
- ___ minimum
- Minor complaint
- Minor-league level
- Mint
- Miracle-___
- Mirror-and-prism camera, for short
- Mischievous devil
- Misfortune
- Miso bean
- Mispell a word, say
- ___ Miss
- Miss Piggy, for one
- Miss the mark
- Miss, e.g.
- "Missile" in many a slapstick fight
- Missions, in brief
- Missouri airport code
- Mistake "air" for "heir," say
- Mister
- "___ Misérables"
- Mix-___ (ice cream shop supply)
- Mixed martial arts org.
- "___ Miz"
- Mme., across the Pyrenees
- Mo. parts
- Mo. with Aries and Taurus signs
- Mo. with International Talk Like a Pirate Day
- Mobster's weapon
- ___ mode (in the fashionable style)
- Modern art?
- Modern intensifying suffix
- Modern lead-in to play
- Modern modem inits.
- Modern moviemaking tech
- Modern prefix with village
- Modern-day name for the American Messenger Co.
- ___ Moines, Iowa
- Mole, e.g.
- Molecule containing adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine
- Molecule in protein synthesis
- Molecule that can self-splice
- Molecule that might be modeled with Twizzlers and gummies in biology class
- Molecule with the nucleotides G, U, A and C
- Mom-and-pop group
- Mom-to-aunt moniker
- ___ moment
- _ _ _mon URL ending
- Monarch at Versailles
- Monk's counterpart
- Mono-
- Monodrama that debuted in 1989
- Monopolist's portion
- Monopolize
- Monster of Tolkiendom
- "Monsters, ___"
- Mont Blanc, e.g.
- Monterrey Mrs.
- Month after avril
- Month with Mother's Day
- Montreal-to-Boston dir.
- Moral transgression
- More than damp
- More, musically
- Mork's home planet
- Mork's planet on an old sitcom
- "Morning Edition" airer
- Morning moisture
- Morning times, in brief
- Most common last name in Somalia
- Most common letter in this clue
- Most common word in English
- Most important part
- Mother chicken
- Mother of a hinny
- Motivational cheer
- Motor oil brand
- Motorists make up this org.
- Mountaineers' sch.
- Mourning dove's call
- Move in a hurry, old-style
- Move the needle?
- Movement of money between accounts, for short
- Movement of money digitally from bank to bank, in brief
- Movie theater popcorn container
- "Mr. Blue Sky" band, for short
- "Mr. Blue Sky" band, in brief
- Mrs. in Spain
- "Mrs. Lennon" writer
- Mrs., en français
- MS NOW competitor
- MSN, for one
- "Much obliged," in a text
- Much of the afternoon, for a toddler
- Mud
- Muff
- Muff or fluff
- Multiple-choice selection on a midterm, say: Abbr.
- Multipurpose shortening?
- Multivolume ref. work
- Mumbled stumbles
- Murderer of Osiris, in myth
- Muscle below a delt
- Muscle strengthened by dips, familiarly
- Muscle used in a dumbbell bench press, informally
- Muscleman of 1980s TV
- Muscles exercised by crunches
- Muscles in a six-pack
- Muscular part of a marathoner
- Museum's entrance and exit?
- Museum-funding org.
- Music artist on the 2012 album "Yokokimthurston"
- "Music for Airports" composer
- Music genre influenced by the Smiths and the Cure
- Music genre prefix
- Music genre that partly grew out of indie rock
- Music genre with "walking" bass lines
- Music genre with offbeat rhythms
- Music magnifier at a concert
- Music producer Brian
- Music recording space, informally
- Music similar to reggae
- Music that's a little offbeat?
- Musical genre that's the subject of the 2007 book "Everybody Hurts"
- Musical group that went on hiatus in 2022 so its members could serve in the military
- Musical Yoko
- Musician Cooke who sang "You Send Me"
- Musician Yoko
- Musician's asset
- Musician's gift
- Muslim holiday, informally
- "My dear ___ …"
- "My dude!"
- "My guy!"
- Myrmecology subject
- Mysterious sight at night
- N.B.A. coach Jordan ___
- N.B.A. power forward ___ Hachimura
- N.C.A.A. hoops powerhouse
- N.F.C. South player
- N.F.L. coach Quinn
- N.F.L. div.
- N.F.L. team at MetLife Stadium, as shown on scoreboards
- N.F.L. three-pointers: Abbr.
- N.F.L. tight end Stowers
- N.H.L. tiebreakers
- N.H.L.'s Mammoth, on scoreboards
- N.H.L.'s Mammoth, on sports tickers
- N.L. East team, on scoreboards
- "N.Y. State of Mind" rapper
- N.Y.C. airport
- N.Y.C. subway letters
- N.Y.C.-based dance group
- N.Y.P.D. rank: Abbr.
- Na+ or Cl-
- Nab
- Nabokov novel
- Nail polish brand
- Nail salon brand
- Nail-biting sports periods, for short
- Naked ___ jaybird
- Name found in "nefarious"
- Name on a "Kill Bill" poster
- Name seen in cursive on a cap in Berkeley
- Name that's a body part backward
- Name that's an anagram of an untruth
- NaOH
- Napkin's spot
- Narrator on "Euphoria"
- Nashville honor, briefly
- Nashville-to-Asheville dir.
- Nasty ___ (noted rap moniker)
- "Nasty!"
- ___ Nation (entertainment company founded by Jay-Z)
- Nation ruled by six royal families, in brief
- National Poetry Mo.
- Natural hairstyle, for short
- Natural resource seen in arboretums?
- Naught
- "Naughty, naughty"
- Nautical lever
- Nav. rank
- Nebraska senator Fischer
- Neckwear for a baby
- Neckwear that can't be laundered
- Need a day off, say
- "Need an ark? I Noah guy," e.g.
- Needing no script
- Needle holder
- Negation word in French
- Negative connector
- Negative logic gate in electrical engineering
- Negative logic gate that works similarly to "and"
- Neighbor of Ark.
- Neighbor of Colo.
- Neighbor of Ont.
- Neighbor of Switz.
- Neither's counterpart
- Neither's partner
- Neptune's territory
- Nest egg inits.
- Network debut of 1981
- Network for "Succession" and "The Wire"
- Network for "The Wire" and "Euphoria"
- Network for many TV reruns
- Network supported by "Viewers Like You"
- Network with "Dexter" and "Shameless," in brief
- Network with an eye logo
- Networking assets
- Neurosurgeons, e.g.: Abbr.
- "Nevertheless …"
- New ___ (official cap maker for M.L.B.)
- New ___ University of Knuckleheads (fictional institution where Leslie Nielsen lectured about the Three Stooges)
- New outfit or accessory for a character, in video game-speak
- New start?
- New Yorkie, say
- New Zealand parrot whose name sounds like a Korean automaker
- Newly include
- News website with a Latin name
- "___ news?"
- Newspaper that covers the stock market, for short
- Newsroom staffers, for short
- Newsroom V.I.P.s
- Newsstand item, in brief
- Newsstand purchase, informally
- Newswoman Curry
- "Ni ___" (Chinese "hello")
- Nick, e.g.
- ___ Nickerson, Nancy Drew's boyfriend
- Nickname akin to Harry
- Nickname derived from the Hebrew name Shoshana
- Nickname for Dorothy
- Nickname that drops "hard"
- ___ Nicolas, remotest of California's Channel Islands
- Night before
- Night school subj.
- Night that NBC once aired "30 Rock" and "The Office": Abbr.
- Nighttime outfit, for short
- Nightwear, informally
- "Niiiiice!"
- Nincompoop
- Nine-digit ID
- Niners, Falcons, Lions
- Nintendo console with motion sensors
- Ninth inning, usually
- Nittany Lions' sch.
- "Nixon in China" tenor
- "No ___, ands or buts!"
- No man's land, for short
- "No more details, plz"
- No no
- "No seats" sign
- "___ no use"
- "No wayyyy!"
- "No" vote
- No-good dog
- No-good ending?
- No. 2's
- Nocturnal hooter
- Non-Rx
- Non-sharer
- Nonclerical
- Nonfielding baseball players, for short
- Nonhuman source of spam
- "Norma ___"
- Norma who gave Sally Field her first Oscar
- Not a particular one
- Not admit
- Not around, informally
- Not be square with
- Not Dem. or Rep.
- Not do much of anything, say
- "Not exactly …"
- Not good, but not bad either
- Not gross
- Not in the closet
- Not just a
- Not just any
- Not just my
- Not just some or most
- Not lease, say
- Not likely to make the first move, say
- Not mainstream, as some music genres
- [Not my misspelling!]
- [Not my mistake]
- Not needing anything else
- Not on the up and up, slangily
- Not online, for short
- Not remain loose
- Not remain silent, maybe
- Not Rx
- Not share, as the covers
- Not square
- Not such a wild place to see an elephant
- Not to
- "___ not what your country can do for you ..."
- Not working
- Not working today
- Not worth a ___
- Not yet decided, for short
- Not yet posted, in brief
- Notable org. with 32 members
- Notable time period
- Note after do, re, mi, fa ...
- Noted San Francisco weather phenomenon
- Noted wildlife refuge
- Notes of appreciation, in online parlance
- Nothin'
- Nothing
- Nothing but
- "Nothing but ___!" (reaction to a swish)
- Notice
- "___ noticed"
- "Notorious" Supreme Court justice
- Nottingham-to-London dir.
- "Nova" network
- Novelist Patchett
- Novelist Rand
- November honoree, informally
- "Now ___ seen everything"
- "Now I get it"
- "Now I understand!"
- "___ 'nuff!"
- Number before tres
- Number indicating position: Abbr.
- Number of ancient kings in pre-Republic Rome
- Number of Beethoven operas
- Number of clues in this puzzle
- Number of legs on a butterfly
- Number of letters missing from the ends of each starred Across clue in this puzzle
- Number of points "Q" is worth in Scrabble
- Number of points for a basket
- Number of teeth for Goofy
- Number of U.S. states with a single-syllable name
- Number on a dating profile
- Number on a golf card
- Number one, informally
- Number represented by candles on a cake
- Number shown on a dating profile
- Number starting a countdown
- Nurse
- Nurse's tote
- Nursery cry
- Nursery rhyme's "little piggy"
- Nurses' co-workers: Abbr.
- Nutrient in avocados
- Nutritional intake amt.
- "Nuts!"
- NYT competitor
- "O ____ babbino caro" (Puccini aria)
- "O Sole ___"
- O'er and o'er
- O'Hare posting, for short
- Oath
- OB/GYN, e.g.
- OB/GYNs, e.g.
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