| N.Y.C. area south of Houston | 28 |
| Nighttime sleep aid medicine | 28 |
| Natasha Rostova's friend | 28 |
| Nothing to get excited about | 28 |
| News origin, when unspecific | 28 |
| Negative reaction to failure | 28 |
| Nutmeg crusher, for example? | 28 |
| Nursery rhyme weight watcher | 28 |
| Not reveal any hidden costs? | 28 |
| Newsmaker of October 4, 1957 | 28 |
| Northern ___ (apple variety) | 28 |
| Nonconformist, idiomatically | 28 |
| No-seats-available shorthand | 28 |
| NYC-to-Atlantic City heading | 28 |
| N.Y.C.–D.C. direction | 28 |
| Neatly organized poker chips | 28 |
| Native South African village | 28 |
| No longer new or interesting | 28 |
| National leader from Georgia | 28 |
| Nixon cabinet member Maurice | 28 |
| Not a member of the reserves | 28 |
| Number of service aces, e.g. | 28 |
| North Dakota or South Dakota | 28 |
| N. Y. and N. J., for example | 28 |
| New Brunswick heritage river | 28 |
| No-no for an Olympic athlete | 28 |
| Nail, as a gymnastic landing | 28 |
| Not a Bond martini direction | 28 |
| NW Missouri city, informally | 28 |
| Nat'l league cap letters | 28 |
| Normandy battle site of WWII | 28 |
| Normandy invasion town, 1944 | 28 |
| Normandy battle site of 1944 | 28 |
| Name in many a hospital name | 28 |
| Not far (with "a") | 28 |
| Novelist Harriet Beecher ___ | 28 |
| Naval officers, colloquially | 28 |
| NYC's Houston and others | 28 |
| Nickname within the alphabet | 28 |
| No longer moist to the touch | 28 |
| Namibia, formerly (initials) | 28 |
| Neutral party, traditionally | 28 |
| New South Wales airport code | 28 |
| Nicole Hollander comic strip | 28 |
| Neighbor of Lebanon and Iraq | 28 |
| Name often seen above a star | 28 |
| Neighborhood shopping events | 28 |
| No. 1 on the Mohs' scale | 28 |
| Not what a fox wants to hear | 28 |
| New Mexico artists' town | 28 |
| New Mexico artists' home | 28 |
| New York's __ Zee Bridge | 28 |
| New Zealand's discoverer | 28 |
| New Criticism poet Allen ___ | 28 |
| Not yet decided, on a sched. | 28 |
| Not yet decided on a sched. | 28 |
| Name in consumer electronics | 28 |
| Native of Iran's capital | 28 |
| Number of Canadian provinces | 28 |
| Number of sides in a decagon | 28 |
| Noted Downing Street address | 28 |
| Nashville's state: Abbr. | 28 |
| North of Miss., Ala. and Ga. | 28 |
| Not whole, as life insurance | 28 |
| New Year's Day, in Hanoi | 28 |
| Novel for Marvin and Bernard | 28 |
| Nickname for a Cardinal team | 28 |
| Neil Simon film comedy, 1977 | 28 |
| Newport Beach area, slangily | 28 |
| Nickname for a kvetch maven? | 28 |
| Necessities for some degrees | 28 |
| Network that merged with UPN | 28 |
| Not direct at all, as gossip | 28 |
| Noted athlete Jim and family | 28 |
| No ___ traffic (street sign) | 28 |
| Notable Bay of Fundy feature | 28 |
| National Spelling Bee rarity | 28 |
| New Line Cinema's parent | 28 |
| Nosh for a goat, in cartoons | 28 |
| New York river or its county | 28 |
| Native American tents (Var.) | 28 |
| Name on an NYU arts building | 28 |
| NurseÂ’s skill, for short | 28 |
| Not the best mushroom to eat | 28 |
| Not as much, to a professor? | 28 |
| Name for a certain male bird | 28 |
| Natl. Funeral Directors site | 28 |
| Nobelist / novelist Morrison | 28 |
| NYY opponent, on scoreboards | 28 |
| No shul would be without one | 28 |
| National League M.V.P.: 1971 | 28 |
| Nelson is on a pedestal here | 28 |
| National Geographic Bee host | 28 |
| Not allowed on certain diets | 28 |
| Not just a five-minute jaunt | 28 |
| Natural History Mus. display | 28 |
| Nicholas and Alexander, e.g. | 28 |
| Name associated with chicken | 28 |
| New Orleans's Green Wave | 28 |
| Navigation system suggestion | 28 |