| NBA's all-time leading rebounder | 36 |
| NBA's Tyreke or UFC's Rashad | 36 |
| NBA's __ Man of the Year Award | 34 |
| NBAer nicknamed "The Moving Great Wall" | 49 |
| NBAer who plays at "The Q" | 36 |
| NBC drama that won 26 Emmys, with "The" | 49 |
| NBC football analyst/reporter and longtime writer | 49 |
| NBC game show lasting about 11.5 days, for short | 48 |
| NBC late-night talk show hosts Carson | 37 |
| NBC live production of December 2013 | 36 |
| NBC series appropriately airing on Friday | 41 |
| NBC series produced by Steven Bochco | 36 |
| NBC series turning 30 in '05 | 32 |
| NBC show for three decades, briefly | 35 |
| NBC show of the 1980s, with "The" | 43 |
| NBC show that began its 35th season in Sep. 2009 | 48 |
| NBC show that launched many comics' careers | 47 |
| NBC show that sometimes busts sexual predators | 46 |
| NBC show whose title appeared on a license plate | 48 |
| NBC show with Baba Wawa skits, briefly | 38 |
| NBC sitcom showings of the late 1980's | 42 |
| NBC Thursday night staple, 1986-94 | 34 |
| NBC vis-Ã -vis "Meet the Press" | 43 |
| NBC weekend comedy show, for short | 34 |
| NBC weekend skit show, for short | 32 |
| NBC's "Late Night With ___ Meyers" | 48 |
| NBC's "My Name Is ___" | 36 |
| NBC's "Watching ___" | 34 |
| NBC's Peabody Award winning drama | 37 |
| NBC's peacock and CBS's eye | 35 |
| NBC's usual "Must See TV" night | 45 |
| NCAA athlete's eligibility factor | 37 |
| NCAA basketball champions of 1990 | 33 |
| NCAA champ Louisville will join it in 2014 | 42 |
| NCAA Championship Bowl Game division | 36 |
| NCAA college football expert picks | 34 |
| NCAA football powerhouse in Tallahassee | 39 |
| NCAA hoops tournament, familiarly | 33 |
| NCAA regional semifinals, familiarly | 36 |
| NCAA team that's been to 33 Rose Bowls | 42 |
| NCAA's "Granddaddy of them all" | 45 |
| NCO's "As you ___!" | 33 |
| Ne'er-do-well cousin of a famous caregiver? | 47 |
| Ne'er-do-well who stayed out for a long time? | 49 |
| Neal Diamond song about an imaginary friend | 43 |
| Neapolitan ice cream flavors, e.g. | 34 |
| Near a part of the innominate bone | 34 |
| Near-Earth asteroid probed in 2001 | 34 |
| Near-homophone of Seoul's anagram | 37 |
| Near-impossibilities in Major League Baseball | 45 |
| Near-miss Charlton Heston classic? | 34 |
| Near-miss Sir Walter Scott classic? | 35 |
| Near-miss Stanley Kubrick classic? | 34 |
| Near-worthless Russian currency unit | 36 |
| Neared (with ''on'') | 36 |
| Nearer a volcanic eruption, perhaps | 35 |
| Nearer the top of a regional map | 32 |
| Nearly 11,000-foot mount in Europe | 34 |
| Nearly 20-hour Ken Burns documentary of 2001 | 44 |
| Nearly a billion people live in them | 36 |
| Nearly enough mollusks to form a jury | 37 |
| Nearly four-foot-tall actor Billy | 33 |
| Nearly horizontal entrance to a mine | 36 |
| Nearly impossible target, literally | 35 |
| Nearly matching outfit's problem? | 37 |
| Nearly obsolete home theater peripherals | 40 |
| Nearly sacrificed son of Abraham | 32 |
| Nearly three quarters of the earth | 34 |
| Nearly useless newspaper, in slang | 34 |
| Nearsighted cartoon 'Mr.' | 33 |
| Nearsighted Russian cab driver? (M) | 35 |
| Neat freak's condition, e.g., for short | 43 |
| Neat freak's condition, for short | 37 |
| Neat, practical types, so it's said | 39 |
| Neaten, as shirts at a men's store | 38 |
| Neatnik's diagnosis, at times | 33 |
| Neatnik's nightmare roommate | 32 |
| Nebraska (with ''state'') | 41 |
| Nebraska birthplace of Malcolm X | 32 |
| Nebraska birthplace of Marlon Brando | 36 |
| Nebraska City is its county seat | 32 |
| Nebraska city on the Missouri River | 35 |
| Nebraska county named for a tribe | 33 |
| Nebraska county that borders Iowa and Missouri | 46 |
| Nebraska county whose seat is Nebraska City | 43 |
| Nebraska county with an Indian name | 35 |
| Nebraska home of Berkshire Hathaway | 35 |
| Nebraska locale of Saddle Creek records | 39 |
| Nebraska senator succeeded by Hagel | 35 |
| Nebraska town named after a Sioux Indian tribe | 46 |
| Nebraska town that is headquarters to ConAgra | 45 |
| Nebraska's capital before Lincoln | 37 |
| Nebraska's most populous city | 33 |
| Nebraska's territorial capital | 34 |
| Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom: abbr. | 35 |
| Necessitate an ''Oops!'' | 40 |
| Necessitate an "Oops!" | 32 |
| Necessitate ordering in late (6) | 32 |
| Necessity à la Thomas Marshall | 33 |
| Necessity for a natural in blackjack | 36 |