Letter M
Mineral used as a flame retardant
Mineral used in water softening
Mineral used to soften water
MINING road
Major milk maker
Memorable 1893 defendant
Marches.
Marge
Many are guarded
memorandums
Marginal
Madonna hit
Madonna's first top 10 song
Margins
Mexicali and Calexico, and a hint to this puzzle's perimeter answers
MAKE a hole
MAKE a way through
MAKE by boring
MAKE hole by boring
Make a tunnel
Make weary by being dull
Make yawn
Make yawn, perhaps
Make yawn, say
Man of many words.
Monotone lecturer, say
Move to tears, say?
make (someone) weary by being dull
make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
Made a hole
Made holes
Mindlessly scrolling, maybe
More than ready for what's next
moping
mopish
Mantra of ennui?
Monotony's result
mental weariness
Movie studio site in England
Machine tool
Many a worm
machine or hand tool for boring holes
Merited further airing
Moles, e.g.
Makes a hole
Makes holes
Makes yawn
Many long PowerPoint presentations
Menaces of the party.
Monotone speakers, usually
McEnroe competitor
McEnroe foe
McEnroe's rival
Musical comedy star Victor
Musician known as the "Great Dane"
Model for Machiavelli's "The Prince"
Mount Rushmore sculptor
Marty portrayer Ernest
Memorable name in opera.
Memorable opera star.
Memorable soprano from Valencia
Memorable soprano.
Mild antiseptic
Monotonous excavations?
Mikhail's successor
Minion of Fearless Leader
Moussorgsky's Godunov
Mr. Karloff.
Mr. Spassky
Mr. Yeltsin
Mussorgsky bass
Mussorgsky's Godunov
Mussorgsky "czarist" opera
Man of maniac parts?
Max of quantum mechanics
Malaysian
MALAY Archipelago island(s)
Malay Archipelago island
Malay island
Malay island seized by the Japanese.
Malayan island.
Malaysian island
Mount Kinabalu setting
Mille ___ (automotive card game)
Minerals found in copper deposits, sometimes
More of the song
"Miniver Cheevy, ___ late . . . "
Middle of a woman-approved quip
Middle of the remark
Manh. or Bklyn.
Manhattan or Bklyn.
Manhattan or Brooklyn, for short
Manhattan or Queens, briefly
Manhattan or Queens, informally
Manhattan or The Bronx, for short
Manhattan or the Bronx, familiarly
Manhattan, e.g., informally
MOSCOW battle
Metalloid element
Metalloid element with atomic number 5
metalloid
Manhattan and Bklyn.
MAYOR, realm of a
Manhatten to NYC, e.g.
money available for a client to borrow
Make quick use of an actor?
Moscow menu item
Material consisting of coarse diamonds.
MA hub
MLB team whose home scoreboard is updated by hand
Mass. MLB team
Mass. capital
Mass. transit hub
Massachusetts hub, on scoreboards
meeting in an isolated venue to break a political deadlock
MASSES of shrubs/trees
mass of trees and shrubs
"Mocking of Christ" painter
Milk additive
Milk flavorer since 1928
Make ground tests
Maker of QuietComfort headphones
Maker of the SoundDock digital music system
Maker of the Wave radio
Marantz competitor
Mr. C. portrayer on "Happy Days"
Maritime crew chief
Member of the crew.
Merchant off.
Merchant ship officer, briefly
Merchant vessel officer, briefly
Merchant-ship officer, briefly
Main man
Mass. team
MARMARA (Sea of), river of the
"Meet the new ___ ..."
Manager; stud
Meeting caller
Mens clothing line
Michael Scott or Mr. Slate
Michael Scott, e.g.
Mob nabob
Mr. Burns, to Homer
Mr. Burns, to Homer Simpson
Mr. Dithers, for instance.
Mr. Dithers, to Dagwood
Mr. Slate, to Fred Flintstone
Mr. Tweed, for instance.
Music style derived from samba and jazz
Music style whose name literally means "new trend"
Mound of compacted snow
Michael on "The Office" et al.
Mob figures
More cowlike?
More demanding
More domineering
More like Mrs. Rumpole of books and TV
More like an older brother, maybe
More likely to make unreasonable demands
More overbearing
more dictatorial
Members of the herd.
Most demanding
Most dictatorial: Colloq.
Most domineering
Most overbearing
'My -- Daughter (2003 comedy)'
Mike of the Stanley Cup-winning New York Islanders
Milk cow moniker
Moo-cow.
"More Than a Feeling" band
Marathon city
Marathon site since 1897
Market Town
Massachusetts capital
Massachusetts metropolis
Mayor Thomas Menino's city
More Than a Feeling group
Making beer at the FleetCenter?
MA State Dessert
Man who uses building blocks?
Massachusetts newspaper
Mayor Hynes, for example.
Meal money in Massachusetts?
Music group since 1885
Musical group founded by a Civil War vet
Maintenance mate
Man in charge of deck crew.
Merchant ship officer
Merchant ship supervisor
Merchant vessel elision
Merchant vessel officer
Merchant vessel petty officer
Merchant vessel officers
Maggot
Many a Google program
Many a Tinder profile creator
Many a Tweeter
Many a customer service assistant, nowadays
Many a modern commenter
Many a spam creator
Many an active Twitter user
Many an online nuisance
Mechanical combatant, for short
Mechanical man, for short
Mendel's field: Abbr.
Mendel's sci.
Message-spewing program
Modern customer-service rep, maybe
MERINO sheep, wool from
Mendel's field
Mendel's science
MEND clumsily
MESS, make a
Muck up
make a mess of, destroy or ruin
mull
Messed the job by not doing it right
mender
Miss a bunt sign, say
More than one of two
Make a fuss
Mild expression of annoyance.
make confused or perplexed or puzzled
make nervous or agitated
Musing, part 2
Mitchell song that ends "I really don't know life at all"
Malicious group of computers
Malicious creations of hackers
Modern injections
Modern wrinkle remover
moonwort
MEDITERRANEAN submarine plant
Makers of spam
Many spam senders
Mechanical men, briefly
Master artist's studio
Master artist's workshop
"Message in a ___"
Magnum ___
Magnum, for one
Message carrier
Message container, maybe
Message holder, maybe
Metal container for gas
Methuselah, e.g.
Milk container
Metal lid for beer or cola
Modern collectible
Most common dolphin
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