| Nation that borders the Democratic Republic of the CongO | 56 |
| Nation that built the first commuter rail to the suburbs | 56 |
| Nation that calls itself Republika e Shqipërisë | 53 |
| Nation that finished fourth in the 2010 World Cup: Abbr. | 56 |
| Nation that says it's "Not Your Fault"? | 53 |
| Nation that's home to the metal bands Opeth and Meshuggah | 61 |
| Nation whose flag is a yellow star on a red background | 54 |
| Nation whose highest point is less than 15 feet above sea level | 63 |
| Nation within a nation, casually, with "the" | 54 |
| National anthem that ends with "we stand on guard for thee" | 69 |
| National Association of W Lovers member, on "Sesame Street" | 69 |
| National Book Award-winning novelist named after Emerson | 56 |
| National capital whose name means "military post" | 59 |
| National clothing chain based in New York's Greenwich Village | 65 |
| National Council __ Raza: Hispanic civil rights group | 53 |
| National day of gratitude, first observed by the Pilgrims in 1621 | 65 |
| National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius matter | 62 |
| National Geographic's first natural one appeared in 1914 | 60 |
| National grp. since 1897 that elected its first male head in 2009 | 65 |
| National headquarters of J.C. Penney, Dr Pepper and Frito-Lay | 61 |
| National Inventors' Day is observed on his birthday | 55 |
| National League career home run king for more than 28 years | 59 |
| National org. that installed its first male president in 2009 | 61 |
| National org. with the slogan "every child. one voice" | 64 |
| National park that inspired "The Lion King" | 53 |
| National park whose name means "the high one" | 55 |
| Nationalist Timothy ___ of Ireland: 1885–1931 | 52 |
| Nationals whose flag declares "God is great" | 54 |
| Native American territory, in slang, with "the" | 57 |
| Native American tribe members living in Ontario and Michigan | 60 |
| Native Arizonans who call themselves "Diné" | 56 |
| Native of Caprica on "Battlestar Galactica" | 53 |
| Native of Greece (or the intended recipient of the message) | 59 |
| Native of the largest of the central Ryukyu Islands | 54 |
| Native whose national anthem is "Bože pravde" | 58 |
| Natives who met Lewis and Clark near modern-day Council Bluffs | 62 |
| Natural vitamin store supplement that some may doubly avoid? | 60 |
| Natural ___ (subject of "fracking" in 2012) | 53 |
| Naturalist who coined the term "invertebrate" | 55 |
| Naughty by Nature "You down with ___, yeah you know me" | 65 |
| Navajo police detective Jim in a Tony Hillerman series | 54 |
| Navigational tools that measure the positions of celestial bodies | 65 |
| Navy Seals' surgical raid target of 2011, ___ bin Laden | 59 |
| NBA All-Star nicknamed "The Big Baryshnikov" | 54 |
| NBA game sites (when the league isn't locked out) | 53 |
| NBA legend nicknamed "The Big Baryshnikov" | 52 |
| NBA player Anthony Davis's nickname, with the" | 55 |
| NBA player who holds the record for most All-Star votes | 55 |
| NBA star Kobe Bryant has nicknamed "Gatsby" | 53 |
| NBA stars Steve Nash and Chris Paul, positionally: Abbr. | 56 |
| NBA team purchased by Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov | 59 |
| NBA team that hosted the "Malice in the Palace" brawl | 63 |
| NBA's Lakers, after being bought out by fitness guru Jack? | 62 |
| NBAer Artest who changed his name to Metta World Peace | 54 |
| NBAer who tweeted "I'm about to retire" in 2011 | 61 |
| NBC offering on Saturday at 9:30 for part of the 1980s | 54 |
| NBC show that did "Celebrity Jeopardy!" parodies | 58 |
| NBC show where Chase, Belushi, Radner et al. got their big breaks | 65 |
| NBC sketch comedy show for Murray and Murphy, for short | 55 |
| NCAA basketball coach Rick with two national championships | 58 |
| Ndamukong ___, 2010 N.F.L. Defensive Rookie of the Year | 55 |
| Nearly all ''American Idol'' auditioners | 56 |
| Nebraska city name on the Wizard of Oz's hot-air balloon | 60 |
| Nebraska city with the motto "Gateway to the West" | 60 |
| Necco candy with vanilla, caramel, peanut, and fudge | 52 |
| Necessary sense for a driver (with an up-front charge) | 54 |
| Necktie consisting of a cord and an ornamental clasp | 52 |
| Ned Stark's eldest son on "Game of Thrones" | 57 |
| Ned who won the Pulitzer for his "Air Music" | 54 |
| Ned's Atomic Dustbin "You Don't Want ___ That" | 64 |
| Ned's new love interest, on "The Simpsons" | 56 |
| Needing to sit on the window sill for a few minutes, say | 56 |
| Neeson who voiced Aslan in the "Narnia" movies | 56 |
| Negative words before "agree" or "materialize" | 66 |
| Negotiations leading to the surrender of German troops in Italy _____ | 69 |
| Negro League great Turkey ____, 2000 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee | 67 |
| Neighbor on the 1980s sitcom "Mama's Family" | 58 |
| Neighborhood at the New York end of the Holland Tunnel | 54 |
| Neighborhood in the title of a 1987 Cheech Marin film | 53 |
| Neighborhood that overlaps part of Greenwich Village | 52 |
| Neighbors of gelatins and puddings in the supermarket aisle | 59 |
| Neil Diamond "Beautiful Noise" song for a woman? | 58 |
| Neil Diamond "Girl, You'll Be a Woman ___" | 56 |
| Neil Diamond "I'll See You on the ___ (Laura)" | 60 |
| Neil Diamond "The ___ Album: As Time Goes By" | 55 |
| Neil Diamond "Three Chord Opera" song about an assignment | 67 |
| Neil Diamond "Yesterday's gone. Now all I want is ___" | 68 |
| Neil Diamond lyric "And counting on ___ later" | 56 |
| Neil Diamond song that inspired "Clueless"? | 53 |
| Neil Diamond title words after "I am the tune" | 56 |
| Neil Diamond's Leon Russell cover "___ for You" | 61 |
| Neil Diamond/Waylon Jennings "___ Good Love" | 54 |
| Neil Simon four-skit comedy ... or an apt title for this puzzle | 63 |
| Neil who wrote most of the songs for "Monty Python" | 61 |
| Neil with the 1962 chart-topper "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" | 69 |
| Neil Young & Crazy Horse "___ With Angels" | 56 |
| Neil Young "Keeps me searching for a ___ gold" | 56 |
| Neil Young "Out of the blue and ___ the black" | 56 |
| Neil Young "Out of ___ and into the black" | 52 |
| Nellie who wrote "Ten Days in a Mad-House" | 52 |