| Nirvana "Sit and drink pennyroyal __" © 2010 Todd Santos Written By: Todd Santos | 172 |
| Nirvana song beginning "I'm so happy 'cause today I found my friends" | 87 |
| Nixon whose voice replaced Natalie Wood's in "West Side Story" | 76 |
| No. 6 on the ABA Journal's list of the 25 greatest law novels ever (by Herman Melville) | 91 |
| Noble headpiece that becomes a brass instrument if you remove it's middle letter | 84 |
| Noises you're guaranteed to hear after opting out of the naked body scanner machines? | 89 |
| Non-fiction bestseller that was fact-checked by Associated Press five days before it was released | 97 |
| Nora who asked her husband "Why don't you write books people can read?" | 85 |
| Norbert Pearlroth spent 52 years of 60-hour weeks in the Library's Reading Room collecting material for ___ | 111 |
| Norman Vincent ___, author of "The Power of Positive Thinking" | 72 |
| North African country whose only 2008 Olympic medal was a bronze in judo | 72 |
| North Africans disputed in a "Seinfeld" Trivial Pursuit question | 74 |
| Norwegian king who ... oh, as if you know anything about Norwegian kings | 72 |
| Not how a stripper should say "No problem!" in a business meeting? | 76 |
| Not too shabby, in slang (because saying "-ent" takes way too long) | 77 |
| Notable quote from the same movie as "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates" | 99 |
| Notably snarky magazine/media empire [The AV goes subscription only soon! Sign up at avxwords.com] | 98 |
| Noted box opener (that, curiously, will tell you what to put in six of this puzzle's boxes when read with the enumeration 1 3/2 1) | 134 |
| Noted children's book illustrator (one of six "middle C" people in this puzzle) | 93 |
| Noted Seuss protagonist with an upcoming birthday, and a hint to a two-part puzzle that begins this week (1) | 108 |
| Noted student of actress Jean Arthur when Arthur was a teacher at Vassar | 72 |
| Novel that begins "'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents'" | 93 |
| Novel that begins "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" | 75 |
| Novel that begins "When Danny came home from the army he learned that he was an heir and an owner of property" | 120 |
| Novel that ends "By noon, the island had gone down in the horizon; and all before us was the wide Pacific" | 116 |
| Novel that ends "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody" | 104 |
| Novel that opens "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day" | 79 |
| Novel whose first chapter is titled “Up the Mountain to Alm-Uncle” | 74 |
| Novel whose four parts are titled "The Plaintiff," "The Defendants," "Brief to Counsel," and "The Trial" | 144 |
| Novel with the subtitle "A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns" | 77 |
| Novelist Elinor who coined the "It girl" nickname for Clara Bow | 73 |
| Novelist who wrote the screenplay for "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" | 77 |
| Novello who played the title role in Hitchcock's "The Lodger" | 75 |
| Ntozake Shange play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is ___" | 101 |
| NTSC alternati...oh wait, no one else cares about analog television protocols and their effect on the framerates of classic video games. Let's just go with [Bud] for this clue | 179 |
| Nuke deliverer [The AV xword goes subscription only soon! Sign up at avxwords.com] | 82 |
| Number five on askmen.com's "Top 10 Models of All Time" poll | 74 |
| Number for soccer legend Andriy Shevchenko--at least, when he played for an Italian club | 88 |
| Number in the Cookie Monster song "They Not Take That Away From Me" | 77 |
| Number of Belgian beers you plan on drinking (as screamed in "A Futbol Named Desire")? | 96 |
| Number of protons by which the elements in the four longest puzzle answers have been enhanced | 93 |
| Number of tiles per Scrabble set for the letter at the end of the answer to each starred clue | 93 |
| Number of times the letter 'U' appears in each of this puzzle's eight longest answers | 97 |
| Number of times this puzzle's theme word appears diagonally in the grid (to complete the puzzle, shade those words plus the Down answers that begin where they meet) | 168 |
| Number of unique lineups U2 has had, as well as the name of a single from "Achtung Baby" | 98 |
| Number that "Sesame Street" was not "brought to you by" for many years | 90 |
| Number two on Forbes's 2011 list of The World's Most Powerful Celebrities | 81 |