| The N.Y. Giants are in it | 25 |
| The Nanny has three | 22 |
| The Nation of Islam, for one | 28 |
| The nation's capital | 24 |
| The National ___ (tabloid) | 26 |
| The Nativity, for one? | 22 |
| The Navigator Islands, today | 28 |
| The NCAA's Black Knights | 28 |
| The NCAA's Buckeyes | 23 |
| The NCAA's Conference __ | 28 |
| The NCAA's Huskies | 22 |
| The NCAA's Minutemen | 24 |
| The NCAA's Sun Devils | 25 |
| 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 Netherlands before 1939? | 28 |
| The New England Patriots? | 25 |
| The New Testament has 21 | 24 |
| The New York Liberty, e.g. | 26 |
| The New York Times, e.g. | 24 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist | 25 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist Roz | 29 |
| The New Yorker founder | 22 |
| The New Yorker founder Harold | 29 |
| The New Yorker writer Auletta | 29 |
| The New ___, in the 50's | 28 |
| The next day, to a poet | 23 |
| The next eleven seconds | 23 |
| The next Michael Jordan? | 24 |
| The NFL's Mannings, e.g. | 28 |
| The NHL's oldest arena | 26 |
| The Niger flows through it | 26 |
| The night before Christmas | 26 |
| The night's thousand | 24 |
| The NIH's home city | 23 |
| The Nile flows through it | 25 |
| The Nine Days' Queen | 24 |
| The Ninja Turtles, e.g. | 23 |
| The ninth day before the ides | 29 |
| The Nittany Lions' sch. | 27 |
| The Nittany Lions: Abbr. | 24 |
| The non-silence of lambs | 24 |
| The normal-looking Munster | 26 |
| The north wind, personified | 27 |
| The Nostra of Cosa Nostra | 25 |
| The not-so-hokey pokey | 22 |
| The Notorious B.I.G., e.g. | 26 |
| The Notorious B.I.G., for one | 29 |
| The notorious Ms Braun | 22 |
| The nouveaux riches put it on | 29 |
| The Nuge, or Uncle ___ | 22 |
| The number at left + 1 | 22 |
| The number many look out for | 28 |
| The Nutcracker brought __ | 25 |
| The Nutmeg State (abbr.) | 24 |
| The Nutmeg State: Abbr. | 23 |
| The O in "Jackie O" | 29 |
| The O in the NFL's T.O. | 27 |
| The O'Hara homestead | 24 |
| The O'Hara mansion | 22 |
| The O'Haras' estate | 27 |
| The O'Haras' home | 25 |
| The O'Haras' place | 26 |
| The O's or A's, e.g. | 28 |
| The O's play in it | 22 |
| The Obamacare rollout, e.g. | 27 |
| The Obamas' Bo, for one | 27 |
| The oboist makes his a double | 29 |
| The obstetrician had ___ | 24 |
| The ocean's B-team? | 23 |
| The oceanographer started ... | 29 |
| The odds are against them | 25 |
| The offense and the defense | 27 |
| The offense or the defense | 26 |
| The Okefenokee and others | 25 |
| The olés are not for them | 28 |
| The old "ould sod" | 28 |
| The old ball and chain? | 23 |
| The old Boston Garden, e.g. | 27 |
| The Old Curiosity, e.g. | 23 |
| The old man's old man | 25 |
| The older Gershwin brother | 26 |
| The oldest animated Simpson | 27 |
| The Olympians overthrew them | 28 |
| The Olympic Australis, e.g. | 27 |
| The Olympic logo has five | 25 |
| The Olympic logo's five | 27 |
| The Olympic rings, e.g. | 23 |
| The Olympics are full of them | 29 |
| The Olympics held in Antwerp | 28 |
| The one assigned to a bomb? | 27 |
| The one getting toasted | 23 |
| The one in a one-two, usually | 29 |
| The one in last place, e.g. | 27 |
| The one of fourth-and-one | 25 |
| The one puppy that can read? | 28 |
| The one that got away? | 22 |