| Now, Now 2012 album "Dead ___" | 40 |
| News item often written years in advance | 40 |
| Number of hits that ruins a perfect game | 40 |
| N.B.A. star called "The Shack" | 40 |
| Nickname of radio shock jock Greg Hughes | 40 |
| NW school that's home to the Beavers | 40 |
| Not in ___ Name (anti-war protest group) | 40 |
| Nickname for football's George Halas | 40 |
| Noted musical death of September 6, 2007 | 40 |
| National Soccer Hall of Famer since 1993 | 40 |
| Nursery rhyme boy whose name is repeated | 40 |
| Nation where Al Jazeera is headquartered | 40 |
| Not found in many stamp collections, say | 40 |
| New arrangement of tracks on a recording | 40 |
| Name that's synonymous with synonymy | 40 |
| Name that's synonymous with synonyms | 40 |
| Noted Canadian pioneer: 1783–1856 | 40 |
| Nobody doesn't like her, in a slogan | 40 |
| Nickname for an athletic "kid" | 40 |
| Not a good thing to make in a restaurant | 40 |
| Neurologist for whom a syndrome is named | 40 |
| Neil Diamond "Whose Hands ___" | 40 |
| Neighboring passengers may fight over it | 40 |
| Nickname for Ireland, with 'the' | 40 |
| Noted English inventor: 1847–1908 | 40 |
| No longer speaking, after "on" | 40 |
| Name of Lord Rubble's feudal estate? | 40 |
| Native of the Land of the Thunder Dragon | 40 |
| Nickname for Anaheim's Angel Stadium | 40 |
| Neckwear with a museum in Wickenburg, AZ | 40 |
| Numbskull who likes Macintosh computers? | 40 |
| Narrow passage where catcalls are heard? | 40 |
| Nursery-rhyme pair, with "the" | 40 |
| Network that suffers during sweeps week? | 40 |
| Napolean's birthplace, to the French | 40 |
| Name for a coven of middle-aged witches? | 40 |
| Negotiator's outrageous demand, e.g. | 40 |
| New York town named for a former senator | 40 |
| N.J. sch. attended by James Van Der Beek | 40 |
| NBA All-Star nicknamed "Flash" | 40 |
| Noted German architect: 1834–1916 | 40 |
| Newton or Gretzky, whichever you prefer? | 40 |
| New Mexico's tag motto: Land of ____ | 40 |
| Newspaper's choice for public office | 40 |
| Nickname for an unpredictable Communist? | 40 |
| New entry in competitive hot dog eating? | 40 |
| NBA announcer's "threeee!" | 40 |
| Not cheating on one's sexual partner | 40 |
| Not expected back at work until tomorrow | 40 |
| Not completely dissolved, as a drink mix | 40 |
| Nickname for Elwood P. Dowd's rabbit | 40 |
| Novelist tied up with a winner over Clay | 40 |
| Northernmost California State University | 40 |
| Noted early 20th-century writer/reformer | 40 |
| Number of dollars 1850 sale netted Texas | 40 |
| Negative pressure ventilator, familiarly | 40 |
| Name for a bachelorette party performer? | 40 |
| N.F.L. team with teal jerseys, for short | 40 |
| Noted Texas musician/novelist/politician | 40 |
| NFL Hall of Fame defensive back Yale ___ | 40 |
| Not sharply defined, as a computer image | 40 |
| Native Americans originally of Wisconsin | 40 |
| Novel with the character Dorothea Brooke | 40 |
| Natural pigment made by grinding azurite | 40 |
| Newsman Anderson with a theology degree? | 40 |
| NBA star Chauncey Billups's nickname | 40 |
| Number theory and abstract algebra, e.g. | 40 |
| Not exactly a good before-the-bell stat? | 40 |
| NFLer who used to play in Yankee Stadium | 40 |
| Nellie ___ (schoolmate of Laura Ingalls) | 40 |
| North Carolina's ___ National Forest | 40 |
| NL home run champ, 7 consecutive seasons | 40 |
| Noted 19th- and 20th-century coal hauler | 40 |
| Number one assistant, strictly speaking? | 40 |
| Norman Mailer book, with "The" | 40 |
| Noted Joffrey Ballet dancer of the 1980s | 40 |
| Noted 19th- and 20th-century portraitist | 40 |
| Not treat seriously, with "at" | 40 |
| New England "catch of the day" | 40 |
| Name on the world's tallest building | 40 |
| Nation where Wolof and French are spoken | 40 |
| Novak Djokovic and Ana Ivanovic, for two | 40 |
| Nike shoe with clear rubber turbo things | 40 |
| NFL coach with the most career victories | 40 |
| Nadia Boulanger's "La ___" | 40 |
| Nickname associated with a Rocky career? | 40 |
| Nick Drake "Been ___ Too Long" | 40 |
| Not invite to the All-Star game, perhaps | 40 |
| Noise heard after someone crashes, maybe | 40 |
| Not fresh enough to run in a newsweekly? | 40 |
| NFL team whose fans wave Terrible Towels | 40 |
| Negative Yelp.com review of a synagogue? | 40 |
| Noted jazz bandleader born Herman Blount | 40 |
| Neighbor of Florida's St. Petersburg | 40 |
| New Jersey township bordering Hackensack | 40 |
| Nirvana's are "Pennyroyal" | 40 |
| Nursery scholar's early arrival time | 40 |
| Nikola who developed alternating current | 40 |
| Nickname of B-western actor Robert Allen | 40 |
| Northernmost area of the Lone Star State | 40 |