| ___ never | 9 |
| ___ Nevis, highest peak in Great Britain | 40 |
| ___ Nevis: highest peak in Great Britain | 40 |
| ___ new course (seek new direction) | 35 |
| ___ New Guinea | 14 |
| ___ New Puritans (UK band) | 26 |
| ___ new record | 14 |
| ___ new standard | 16 |
| ___ new tack (changed strategy) | 31 |
| ___ new world record | 20 |
| ___ new world's record | 26 |
| ___ New York | 12 |
| ___ New York minute | 19 |
| ___ Newburg | 11 |
| ___ Newmans (fruit-filled cookie brand) | 39 |
| ___ Newmans (Paul's cookie brand) | 37 |
| ___ news | 8 |
| ___ news (current) | 18 |
| ___ News (daily paper with a weekly Mormon Times insert) | 56 |
| ___ Newspapers (media chain) | 28 |
| ___ newt (witch's ingredient) | 33 |
| ___ newt (witches' brew ingredient) | 39 |
| ___ newt (witches' ingredient) | 34 |
| ___ Newton (cookie) | 19 |
| ___ Newton (kind of cookie) | 27 |
| ___ Newton (kind of snack) | 26 |
| ___ Newton (Nabisco treat) | 26 |
| ___ Newton-John | 15 |
| ___ next to nothing (make do) | 29 |
| ___ ngu (Vietnamese writing) | 28 |
| ___ niçoise | 14 |
| ___ Nibelung | 12 |
| ___ nibs | 8 |
| ___ Nidre | 9 |
| ___ Nidre (Jewish prayer) | 25 |
| ___ Nidre (prayer of atonement) | 31 |
| ___ Nidre (Yom Kippur prayer) | 29 |
| ___ Nidre, Hebrew prayer | 24 |
| ___ Nidre, prayer of atonement | 30 |
| ___ night (annual event) | 24 |
| ___ Night, 1980 Nielsen movie | 29 |
| ___ Night, rock group | 21 |
| ___ Nights (waterproof mattress protector) | 42 |
| ___ Nike (Acropolis temple) | 27 |
| ___ Nikolaevich, last czarevitch of Russia | 42 |
| ___ Nile | 8 |
| ___ Nile virus | 14 |
| ___ nine (ecstatic) | 19 |
| ___ nine (euphoric state) | 25 |
| ___ nine, out by five | 21 |
| ___ Nineties | 12 |
| ___ Ninja.com (satirical online advice column) | 46 |
| ___ Nippon | 10 |
| ___ Nippon (Japan) | 18 |
| ___ nisi bonum | 14 |
| ___ nitrate | 11 |
| ___ nitrate (stimulant also known as "poppers") | 57 |
| ___ nitrate (stimulant) | 23 |
| ___ nitrite | 11 |
| ___ nitrite (angina treatment) | 30 |
| ___ nitrite (club drug) | 23 |
| ___ nitrite (illicit inhalant) | 30 |
| ___ nitrite (inhalant) | 22 |
| ___ nitrite (medicine ingredient inhaled illicitly as an aphrodisiac) | 69 |
| ___ Nivens (Betty White's "Mary Tyler Moore" show role) | 69 |
| ___ Nkrumah (Ghana's first president) | 41 |
| ___ no | 6 |
| ___ no (iffy) | 13 |
| ___ no good | 11 |
| ___ no good (looking for trouble) | 33 |
| ___ no good (scheming) | 22 |
| ___ NO HOOKS (crate label) | 26 |
| ___ No More | 11 |
| ___ no use | 10 |
| ___ no-trump | 12 |
| ___ no. | 7 |
| ___ no. (bank info) | 19 |
| ___ no. (type of ID) | 20 |
| ___ Noël | 11 |
| ___ Noël (French Santa Claus) | 32 |
| ___ nobis (a writ) | 18 |
| ___ nobis (writ of error or review) | 35 |
| ___ nobs (cribbage one-pointer) | 31 |
| ___ noche (tonight, in Spanish) | 31 |
| ___ noche (tonight, in Tijuana) | 31 |
| ___ noche (tonight, in Toledo) | 30 |
| ___ node | 8 |
| ___ noir | 8 |
| ___ noir (red wine) | 19 |
| ___ noir (wine) | 15 |
| ___ noire | 9 |
| ___ noire (bane) | 16 |
| ___ noire (bugbear) | 19 |
| ___ noire (fearsome entity) | 27 |
| ___ noire (frightful thing) | 27 |
| ___ noire (pet peeve) | 21 |
| ___ Noire (Russie borderer) | 27 |
| ___ noire (villainous one) | 26 |
| ___ noires | 10 |
| ___ noires (anathemas) | 22 |