| NBC, to General Electric | 24 |
| NCAA and NAACP, for two | 23 |
| NCAA basketball champs, U-___ | 29 |
| NCAA Division I school | 22 |
| NCAA football matchup system | 28 |
| NCAA Mountain West Conf. team | 29 |
| NCAA rival of Michigan | 22 |
| NCAA tournament nail-biters | 27 |
| NCAA year-end games system | 26 |
| NCAA's Runnin' -- | 25 |
| NCAA's __-12 conference | 27 |
| NCO two levels above cpl. | 25 |
| NCO with three chevrons | 23 |
| NCO's subordinates | 22 |
| NCOs two levels above cpl. | 26 |
| NDP leadership seeker, once | 27 |
| NE African, to Shakespeare | 26 |
| NE Nevada county or its seat | 28 |
| NE syst. with 64 campuses | 25 |
| Ne'er's opposite | 24 |
| Ne-Yo "She ___ Me" | 28 |
| Neal Conan's call letters | 29 |
| Neal-Douglas Oscar vehicle | 26 |
| Neanderthal man, for one | 24 |
| Neanderthal's home | 22 |
| Neanderthal's time | 22 |
| Neanderthal's weapon | 24 |
| Neanderthal's wear | 22 |
| Neanderthals' heyday | 24 |
| Neanderthals' home | 22 |
| Neapolitan layer, for short | 27 |
| Neapolitan painter Giordano | 27 |
| Neapolitan song starter | 23 |
| Neapolitan song title opening | 29 |
| Neapolitans and Pisans | 22 |
| Near each other, as the eyes | 28 |
| Near Eastern chieftain | 22 |
| Near Eastern honorific | 22 |
| Near Eastern V.I.P.'s | 25 |
| Near failure of a kind | 22 |
| Near mid-millennium year | 24 |
| Near miss in tic-tac-toe | 24 |
| Near the back, nautically | 25 |
| Near the back, on a ship | 24 |
| Near the bottom of the barrel | 29 |
| Near the middle: Abbr. | 22 |
| Near the ship's deck | 24 |
| Near to one's heart | 23 |
| Near, Far or Middle follower | 28 |
| Near, in Niedersachsen | 22 |
| Near-exhaustion metaphor | 24 |
| Near-hurricane-force wind | 25 |
| Near-infinite timespans | 23 |
| Near-miss Dr. Seuss classic? | 28 |
| Near-miss Tim Burton classic? | 29 |
| Near-misser of zero hour | 24 |
| Near-perfect horseshoe pitch | 28 |
| Near-perfect score, maybe | 25 |
| Near-ringers, in horseshoes | 27 |
| Near-spherical hairstyles | 25 |
| Near-the-belt excesses | 22 |
| Near-winners at horseshoes | 26 |
| Nearby backup for the NYPD? | 27 |
| Nearby, on a country road | 25 |
| Neared (with "on") | 28 |
| Neared, with "on" | 27 |
| Nearest capital to Gibraltar | 28 |
| Nearest in space or position | 28 |
| Nearing complete exhaustion | 27 |
| Nearing retirement age, maybe | 29 |
| Nearing-completion comment | 26 |
| Nearly "A" material | 29 |
| Nearly 29% of Tel Aviv? | 23 |
| Nearly 5,000 square yards | 25 |
| Nearly 80% of the atmosphere | 28 |
| Nearly 9% of the Earth | 22 |
| Nearly boils, as water | 22 |
| Nearly catch, as the heels | 26 |
| Nearly even, as a race | 22 |
| Nearly failing, to a prof | 25 |
| Nearly flawless bodies? | 23 |
| Nearly half of ninety-nine? | 27 |
| Nearly impossible MLB outcome | 29 |
| Nearly infinite perioD | 22 |
| Nearly overflowed (with) | 24 |
| Nearly rainless island | 22 |
| Nearly six in a fl. oz. | 23 |
| Nearly six-week period | 22 |
| Nearly transparent paper | 24 |
| Nearly unique in the world | 26 |
| Nearly vertical, as an anchor | 29 |
| Nearly worthless amount | 23 |
| Nearly-extinct animals | 22 |
| Nearness, pleonastically | 24 |
| Nears one's target | 22 |
| Nears the harvesting stage | 26 |
| Nears the western horizon | 25 |
| Nears, with "on" | 26 |
| Nearsighted "Mr." | 27 |
| Nearsighted cartoon character | 29 |