| The Navigator Islands, today | 28 |
| The Nazarene novelist | 21 |
| The NBA and NCAA | 16 |
| The NBA's "Big Aristotle" | 39 |
| The NBA's Archibald et al. | 30 |
| The NBA's Hawks | 19 |
| The NBA's is in Springfield, MA: Abbr. | 42 |
| The NBA's Magic | 19 |
| The NBA's Mehmet Okur, e.g. | 31 |
| The NBA's minors | 20 |
| The NBA's Zydrunas Ilgauskas, e.g. | 38 |
| The NCAA's Black Knights | 28 |
| The NCAA's Bruins | 21 |
| The NCAA's Buckeyes | 23 |
| The NCAA's Conference __ | 28 |
| The NCAA's Fightin' Tigers | 34 |
| The NCAA's Fighting Tigers | 30 |
| The NCAA's Huskies | 22 |
| The NCAA's March Madness, e.g. | 34 |
| The NCAA's Minutemen | 24 |
| The NCAA's Runnin' Rebels | 33 |
| The NCAA's Sun Devils | 25 |
| The NEA supports it | 19 |
| The near or foreseeable future | 30 |
| The nearer one | 14 |
| The necktie in a necktie party | 30 |
| The necktie in a Western necktie party | 38 |
| The Negev's nation | 22 |
| The Negro R. runs through it | 28 |
| The neighbor's child? | 25 |
| The neighbor's kid | 22 |
| The neighbor's kids | 23 |
| The neighborhood | 16 |
| The Nerd Herd on "Chuck," ostensibly | 46 |
| The nerdier of the "Scooby-Doo" girls | 47 |
| The nerve of Walter? | 20 |
| The Netherlands | 15 |
| The Netherlands before 1939? | 28 |
| The network in "Network" | 34 |
| The network technician brought ... | 34 |
| The new 40, they say | 20 |
| The new Cambodia | 16 |
| The New England Patriots? | 25 |
| The New Orleans 11 | 18 |
| The New Pornographers' "___ Cinema" | 49 |
| The New Pornographers' label | 32 |
| The New Testament has 21 | 24 |
| The New Testament's John, notably | 37 |
| The New World: Abbr. | 20 |
| The New York Liberty, e.g. | 26 |
| The New York Nets were its last champs: Abbr. | 45 |
| The New York Times publisher | 31 |
| The New York Times, e.g. | 24 |
| The New Yorker caricaturist Edward | 34 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist | 25 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist Addams | 32 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist Chast | 31 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist Edward | 32 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist Peter | 31 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist Roz | 29 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist William | 33 |
| The New Yorker contributor until 1968 | 37 |
| The New Yorker founder | 22 |
| The New Yorker founder Harold | 29 |
| The New Yorker founder, Harold | 30 |
| The New Yorker illustrator Irvin | 32 |
| The New Yorker piece | 20 |
| The New Yorker writer Auletta | 29 |
| The New ___ | 11 |
| The New ___, in the 50's | 28 |
| The newly elected | 17 |
| The newly-elected | 17 |
| The next day, to a poet | 23 |
| The next eleven seconds | 23 |
| The next generation | 19 |
| The next Michael Jordan? | 24 |
| The next one is 2016 | 20 |
| The next one takes place in Shanghai, 2010 | 42 |
| The next United States one will be in 2010 | 42 |
| The NFL's "Golden Arm" | 36 |
| The NFL's Aikman | 20 |
| The NFL's Cowboys | 21 |
| The NFL's Cowboys, on scoreboards | 37 |
| The NFL's Manning brothers, for two | 39 |
| The NFL's Mannings, e.g. | 28 |
| The NFL's Montana and Favre, e.g. | 37 |
| The NHL's oldest arena | 26 |
| The NHL's Phil, familiarly | 30 |
| The NHL's Senators, on scoreboards | 38 |
| The Niger flows through it | 26 |
| The night before | 16 |
| The night before Christmas | 26 |
| The night before Christmas, e.g. | 32 |
| The night before Christmas, say | 31 |
| The Night of the Grizzly actor | 33 |
| The night's thousand | 24 |
| The NIH's home city | 23 |
| The Nike Swoosh, e.g. | 21 |
| The Nikkei's market: Abbr. | 30 |
| The Nile flows through it | 25 |