| Number in the Cookie Monster song "They Not Take That Away From Me" | 77 |
| Number for soccer legend Andriy Shevchenko--at least, when he played for an Italian club | 88 |
| Number five on askmen.com's "Top 10 Models of All Time" poll | 74 |
| Nuke deliverer [The AV xword goes subscription only soon! Sign up at avxwords.com] | 82 |
| 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 |
| Ntozake Shange play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is ___" | 101 |
| Novello who played the title role in Hitchcock's "The Lodger" | 75 |
| Novelist who wrote the screenplay for "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" | 77 |
| Novelist Elinor who coined the "It girl" nickname for Clara Bow | 73 |
| Novel with the subtitle "A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns" | 77 |
| Novel whose four parts are titled "The Plaintiff," "The Defendants," "Brief to Counsel," and "The Trial" | 144 |
| Novel whose first chapter is titled “Up the Mountain to Alm-Uncle” | 74 |
| Novel that opens "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day" | 79 |
| Novel that ends "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody" | 104 |
| Novel that ends "By noon, the island had gone down in the horizon; and all before us was the wide Pacific" | 116 |
| 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 begins "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" | 75 |
| Novel that begins "'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents'" | 93 |
| Noted student of actress Jean Arthur when Arthur was a teacher at Vassar | 72 |
| Noted Seuss protagonist with an upcoming birthday, and a hint to a two-part puzzle that begins this week (1) | 108 |
| Noted children's book illustrator (one of six "middle C" people in this puzzle) | 93 |
| 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 |
| Notably snarky magazine/media empire [The AV goes subscription only soon! Sign up at avxwords.com] | 98 |
| Notable quote from the same movie as "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates" | 99 |
| Not too shabby, in slang (because saying "-ent" takes way too long) | 77 |
| Not how a stripper should say "No problem!" in a business meeting? | 76 |
| Norwegian king who ... oh, as if you know anything about Norwegian kings | 72 |
| North Africans disputed in a "Seinfeld" Trivial Pursuit question | 74 |
| North African country whose only 2008 Olympic medal was a bronze in judo | 72 |
| Norman Vincent ___, author of "The Power of Positive Thinking" | 72 |
| Norbert Pearlroth spent 52 years of 60-hour weeks in the Library's Reading Room collecting material for ___ | 111 |
| Nora who asked her husband "Why don't you write books people can read?" | 85 |
| Non-fiction bestseller that was fact-checked by Associated Press five days before it was released | 97 |
| Noises you're guaranteed to hear after opting out of the naked body scanner machines? | 89 |
| Noble headpiece that becomes a brass instrument if you remove it's middle letter | 84 |
| No. 6 on the ABA Journal's list of the 25 greatest law novels ever (by Herman Melville) | 91 |
| Nixon whose voice replaced Natalie Wood's in "West Side Story" | 76 |
| Nirvana song beginning "I'm so happy 'cause today I found my friends" | 87 |
| Nirvana "Sit and drink pennyroyal __" © 2010 Todd Santos Written By: Todd Santos | 172 |
| Nintendo product on many "worst game controllers of all time" lists | 77 |
| Nile Rodgers band I can't believe aren't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame yet | 86 |
| Nightly battle between a spouse who wants to read and one who doesn't? | 74 |
| Nickname popularized by a New York Morning Telegraph sportswriter in the 1920s, with "the" | 100 |
| Nickname of the university that was the site of a 1962 desegregation drama | 74 |
| Nickname of the man (born 2/12/1809) who gave the address at 18A, issued the 28A/45A, was the first elected president of the 60A Party, and whose name can be found in this puzzle's main diagonal | 198 |
| Nickname of the dictator who said "I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people" | 103 |
| Nickname of the British general who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo (with "The") | 88 |
| Nickname of the author of the children's book "Hit a Grand Slam!" | 79 |
| Nickname of Pink Floyd musician Barrett after he became a financial watchdog | 76 |
| Nickname of gnome sculptor Tom Clark when he was a religion prof at Davidson College | 84 |
| Nickname for the three-letter abbreviation hidden in this puzzle's theme entries | 84 |
| Nickname for the lead singer of Aerosmith, who keeps spilling glittery paint on himself? | 88 |
| Nickname for racer Dale Earnhardt Sr., so called because of his stubbornness | 76 |
| Nickname for Nantucket, because of its frequent fog, with "the" | 73 |
| Nickname for infielder Ernie Banks, who stayed with one team for eighteen years | 79 |
| Nickname for hockey legend Phil that's one letter away from a network that might use it | 91 |
| Nickname for a team from Miami, and an aural hint to the theme of this puzzle | 77 |
| Nickname for a longtime Dartmouth humor periodical named for a Halloween symbol | 79 |
| NFLer Harris, known for his 1972 game-winning "Immaculate Reception" | 78 |
| NFL star Michael who was the basis for the movie "The Blind Side" | 75 |
| NFL quarterback whose signature move is kissing his flexed bicep after scoring a touchdown | 90 |
| NFL Hall of Fame receiver who is first cousins once removed with jazz legend Thelonious | 87 |
| Next words spoken by the same character after "The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king" | 134 |
| Next to his Princeton yearbook picture it says he "intends to go to law school and eventually to warm a seat on the Supreme Court" | 140 |
| Newsstand buy, for short—one begins each of the four longest puzzle answers (and also ends the last one) | 108 |
| Newsman who famously defined news as "something somebody doesn't want printed" | 92 |
| News Corporation-owned Web site that's one of the 10 most visited sites in the world | 88 |
| Newman who is running against Jerry Costello for Illinois' 12th congressal district | 87 |
| Newly-introduced element that alters the situation in a significant way, in modern lingo | 88 |
| Newcaster who said "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" | 98 |
| New York theater on the National Register of Historic Places, with "the" | 82 |
| New York stadium that was the site of the first professional outdoor basketball game | 84 |
| New York mayor incorporates witticism; it sends opponents to the floor (2, 5) | 77 |
| New wave classic with the lines "I wish I was in Tijuana / Eating barbecued iguana" | 93 |
| New wave classic that begins "Talking away / I don't know what I'm to say" | 92 |
| New wave #1 hit with the repeated line "That ain't working" | 73 |
| New slogan for an Arizona city trying to emphasize strong elementary school math programs? | 90 |
| New slogan for a Texas city trying to spread the word about its cheap ammunition? | 81 |
| New slogan for a North Carolina city trying to draw in visitors for tours of its old distilleries? | 98 |
| New slogan for a California city trying to advertise its wild playground basketball games? | 90 |
| New releases that honor the four baseball greats featured in this puzzle | 72 |
| New Jersey rocker featured in the 12/12/12 Hurricane Sandy relief concert | 73 |
| New Jersey borough where Edison built the first electric lighting system | 72 |
| New Jersey area code, in ancient Rome (oh, did you want to do Roman numeral math? That's what I thought) | 108 |
| New Hampshire town whose Daily Sun was the first newspaper to publish sudoku in English | 87 |
| New Hampshire home to midnight voting that traditionally gives the first results in presidential elections | 106 |
| New element whose name will be ratified in January, 2010, and whose symbol appears in the middle of this puzzle's theme answers | 131 |
| New Age musician John who used to host "Entertainment Tonight" | 72 |
| New age artist who has supposedly sold more records than Nirvana and the Spice Girls, although I can't name one of her songs | 128 |
| New 13th zodiac sign that would cause all these changes (if astrologers took it seriously) | 90 |
| Nevertheless, she asked him if he had attended her high school, and after he said yes, she asked "...?" | 113 |
| Nevada city, the one place "Phil the Weatherman," at the beginning of "Groundhog Day," says he would like to be if he could choose; have you made the arrangments? | 182 |
| Network where "The Newlywed Game" will feature its first gay couple in 2009 | 85 |
| Network seen in "The Soup" segment "Tales From Home Shopping" | 81 |
| Network advertising "the greatest motion pictures of all time" | 72 |
| Nerdy band with "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass" | 75 |
| Neologism for the superfluous diacritical marks seen in the names of many heavy bands, also called "röck döts" | 126 |
| Nellie's portrayer in the version of "South Pacific" aired by PBS | 79 |
| Neil Diamond song with the lyrics "I used to call your name / when no one else would come" | 100 |
| Negating conjunction [LAST WEEK: The hidden products were: Levi's, Glade, Total, Aleve, Comet, Crest, Advil, Lysol, Certs, Nestea and Cialis.] | 148 |