| Need to touch all the items on one's desk before leaving, say: Abbr. | 72 |
| Need bailing, or what five entries in this puzzle can do to make two overlapping words or phrases | 97 |
| Nebraska town, named after an Indian tribe, featured in "Lonesome Dove" | 81 |
| Nebraska town made famous as the home office of Letterman's Top Ten List | 76 |
| Nebraska city that serves as David Letterman's Top 10 List "home office" | 86 |
| Nearly circular shape used as the floor plan for most Bahá'i temples | 75 |
| Nearing the TV station billboard, you did "77 ___" where the sign said "60 Minutes"... | 106 |
| Neal Cassady's occupation in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" | 76 |
| NBC show that featured Janis Ian and Billy Preston as its first musical guests | 78 |
| NBC reality show that taped contestants drinking donkey semen (it never aired) | 78 |
| NBA strategy that involves deliberately fouling the opponent with the worst free throw percentage | 97 |
| NBA military appreciation initiative, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 75 |
| Natural talent[For the explanation of last week's theme, see the last Down clue] | 84 |
| Native American group (and source of a Washington city that differs by one letter) | 82 |
| National Leaguer who was ranked first, second, or third in walks every year from 1929 to 1944 | 93 |
| Nation invented by a John Kerry flub in his first major speech as US Secretary of State | 87 |
| narstar69: omfg u guys / houstongrco: d00d wtf / narstar69: thatz 1 small step lol | 84 |
| Narcissists' interests (one of which can be found in each of the puzzle's longest answers) | 98 |
| Nanobot's hypothetical ability, and the process that's overtaken this puzzle's theme answers | 104 |
| Nancy who's slated to replace Mary Hart on "Entertainment Tonight" | 80 |
| Nancy Reagan's antidrug slogan, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 73 |
| Name that might elicit giggles if used in the song "The Name Game" | 76 |
| Name that becomes another name when an F is added to the front and an X to the end | 82 |
| Name on the label of the world's most popular soft drink, until the year 1009 | 81 |
| Name on "Sons of Anarchy" and "The Andy Griffith Show" | 74 |
| Name of the first level of Special World in "Super Mario World" for the SNES, right before "Tubular" and "Way Cool" (how '90s is that?) | 169 |
| Name of Michael's penis in the Judy Blume book "Forever ..." | 74 |
| Name Jerry accidentally calls a girlfriend whose name rhymes with part of the female anatomy, on "Seinfeld" | 117 |
| Name in Keats's "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" | 73 |
| Name for the tech support counter in many Apple stores, which is probably something of an overstatement | 103 |
| Name for London's subway system and an outdated slang term for television | 77 |
| Name for a storm in which romaine lettuce, Parmesan, and croutons fall from the sky? | 84 |
| Name for a catastrophic (but fairly slow-moving and oh-so-sweet) 1919 flood in the capital of Massachusetts | 107 |
| Name after "Chasing" in a movie title and "Judging" in a TV show title | 90 |
| Nabisco cookies ... and what you might cry upon solving this puzzle's three other longest answers? | 102 |
| N.L. outfielder who won a Gold Glove in 1970 along with Clemente and Rose | 73 |
| N.B.A. star who was on the cover of Sports Illustrated while still in high school | 81 |
| N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer who, with Walt Frazier, formed the Knicks' "Rolls Royce Backcourt" | 101 |
| N.B.A. first name that's Arabic for "noble" or "exalted" | 80 |
| Mythical figure represented in Vermeer's "The Art of Painting" | 76 |
| Mystery Person once wrote a waltz in which the choice of measures played was determined ... | 91 |
| Mystery Person once composed a piano piece that, to be performed correctly, required the ... | 92 |
| Mystery author whose work has been translated into more than 100 languages | 74 |
| My wife's third most-hated band (behind Big Country and Phil Collins solo) | 78 |
| My favorite cheap beer, for short (just sayin', if you're buying) | 73 |
| Musketeer Salim imagined himself to be, in "Slumdog Millionaire" | 74 |
| Musician who's probably going to end up in your grid when you've got 33 3-letter words | 94 |
| Musician Dolby who returned in 2011 with "A Map of the Floating City" | 79 |
| Musical work in four parts, with its first part opening the Met's 2010-11 season | 84 |
| Musical with the song "Slide Some Oil to Me," with "The" | 76 |
| Musical in which Madonna set a Guinness World Record for "Most costume changes in a film" | 99 |
| Musical featuring the songs "Tornado Ballet" and "Slide Some Oil to Me" | 91 |
| Musical featuring the song "Hernando's Hideaway," with "The" | 84 |
| Musical dedicatee whose true identity is the subject of much speculation | 72 |
| Musical character who sings "Leavin' fo' de Promise' Lan'" | 84 |
| Musical about the eccentric widow of Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside | 72 |
| Music releases like "We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes," and "Narrow Stairs," to fans | 114 |
| Museum featuring the works mentioned above, which opened on October 21, 1959 | 76 |
| Murray, Akroyd, Ramis, and Weaver's "Ghostbusters" co-star | 72 |
| Murderer in P.D.Q. Bach's spoof opera "A Little Nightmare Music" | 78 |
| Mumps symptoms (and technically, this should be "Great Britain," but how often does one get a chance to put this answer in a puzzle?) | 143 |
| Mumford & Sons lyric "Ships might be built for sailing my love, and ___ made for painting" | 104 |
| Multiple Grammy winner who was a contestant on "Dancing With the Stars" | 81 |
| MTV reality show that controversially uses the terms "Guido" and "Guidette" | 95 |
| MRS. HAtty-Cyphert you will amaze at your w*ste line goes invisible vvith these rev/olutionary ___ | 98 |
| Mr. Zog's surfboard grip product that gained notoriety by being banned from schools | 87 |
| Mr. Rosewater in Kurt Vonnegut's "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" | 77 |
| Mr. Peabody's aptly named time machine, as the creators of Rocky and Bullwinkle spelled it | 94 |
| Movie with the tagline "The movie was fake.The mission was real" | 74 |
| Movie with the tagline "A world inside the computer where man has never been. Never before now." | 106 |
| Movie with the refrain "I'm not even supposed to be here today!" | 78 |
| Movie with the opening line "I admire your courage, Miss ...?" | 72 |
| Movie with the line "Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of" | 131 |
| Movie with the line "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" | 83 |
| Movie with the line "I'm a vulgar man. But I assure you, my music is not" | 87 |
| Movie with the first female winner of the Oscar for Best Director, with "The" | 87 |
| Movie whose last lines are "Mediocrities everywhere ... I absolve you." | 81 |
| Movie villain who said "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." | 91 |
| Movie title that describes what happened to the five long entries in this puzzle? | 81 |
| Movie ticket site named after a dance, because why do things need to have anything to do with each other | 104 |
| Movie that was shot in "3-B" -- "three beers and it looks good" | 83 |
| Movie that may be remade again with Beyonce in the Gaynor/Garland/Streisand role | 80 |
| Movie that hit #1 for Worst Actor and Worst Picture in an IMDb 2005 "Worst of" poll | 93 |
| Movie star who said, "I always cry at weddings, especially my own" | 76 |
| Movie robot whose voice was made with an ARP 2600 analog synthesizer, familiarly | 80 |
| Movie org. that created a top-100 list from which all of this puzzle's quotes come | 86 |
| Movie mogul whom Forbes magazine once named the highest-paid man in entertainment | 81 |
| Movie in which Tom Cruise's character is told, "You can't handle the truth" | 93 |
| Movie in which the title character says "The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets" | 92 |
| Movie in which Europe's "The Final Countdown" doesn't actually appear, contrary to popular belief | 115 |
| Movie good guys responsible for the circled squares in eight long puzzle answers | 80 |
| Movie for which Anna Magnani won an Oscar for Best Actress, with "The" | 80 |
| Movie epic that's probably more than you ever wanted to know about poi? | 75 |
| Movie co. behind "Wordplay" and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" | 78 |
| Movie character with more than 400 siblings, all of whom are killed within the first five minutes of the film | 109 |
| Movie character whose line "Walk this way" inspired the Aerosmith song | 80 |
| Movie character who says "The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of" | 75 |
| Movie based on the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" | 72 |
| Movement Herman Wouk called "a single long action of lifesaving" | 74 |
| Mourning who won an NBA championship after receiving a kidney transplant | 72 |