| __ one's time: waits for a good chance | 42 |
| __ one's game: performing below par | 39 |
| __ of vantage: favorable position | 33 |
| __ of hand (magician's forte) | 33 |
| __ of Gloucester: "King Lear" character | 49 |
| __ of appreciation (symbolic gifts) | 35 |
| __ Nugget, Alaska's oldest newspaper | 40 |
| __ Novello Award (British music prize) | 38 |
| __ noire: literally, "black beast" | 44 |
| __ Nkrumah (first Ghanaian president) | 37 |
| __ Network (Canadian cable channel) | 35 |
| __ Nashville: country record label | 34 |
| __ Nashville: country music label | 33 |
| __ Nashville (country record label) | 35 |
| __ Mountains: south-central U.S. range | 38 |
| __ Mountains: Mt. Narodnaya's range | 39 |
| __ Mountains: Europe/Asia border range | 38 |
| __ Mountains: Eurasian border range | 35 |
| __ Mountains: central U.S. range | 32 |
| __ Mountains: Central Asian range | 33 |
| __ Mountain (Pennsylvania ski resort) | 37 |
| __ moss (gardener's material) | 33 |
| __ Moon, Baptist missionary to China (1873-1912) | 48 |
| __ Montoya: "The Princess Bride" role | 47 |
| __ monster (southwestern lizard) | 32 |
| __ Monday: post-Thanksgiving event | 34 |
| __ Mode, English band since the 1980s | 37 |
| __ Miguel, largest of the Azores | 32 |
| __ Men: "Who Let the Dogs Out" band | 45 |
| __ masqué: dance with costumes | 33 |
| __ Mason: asset management giant | 32 |
| __ Marbles (British Museum exhibit) | 35 |
| __ Manor: "Batman" setting | 36 |
| __ Manor: "Batman" mansion | 36 |
| __ mania, 17th-century Dutch phenomenon | 39 |
| __ manager (cruise-ship executive) | 34 |
| __ Major: Great Dog constellation | 33 |
| __ Major (Big Dipper's locale) | 34 |
| __ Major (Big Dipper's constellation) | 41 |
| __ Major (Big Dipper constellation) | 35 |
| __ mail (business' postal rate) | 35 |
| __ Luft, daughter of Judy Garland | 33 |
| __ loading (marathoner's ritual) | 36 |
| __ List: Forbes best-companies feature | 38 |
| __ List (political-action group) | 32 |
| __ Lisa Vito: "My Cousin Vinny" role | 46 |
| __ Line Railroad (Canadian Pacific line) | 40 |
| __ lily (Utah's state flower) | 33 |
| __ liberales: universidad course | 32 |
| __ Lee Bunton, a.k.a. Baby Spice | 32 |
| __ León: Monterrey's state | 33 |
| __ lane (carpoolers' convenience) | 37 |
| __ Laboratories, company that introduced Tylenol | 48 |
| __ La Table: high-end cookware shop | 35 |
| __ la Plata (Buenos Aires' river) | 37 |
| __ l'Évêque: pale-yellow cheese | 42 |
| __ Krabappel, Bart Simpson's teacher | 40 |
| __ Kinte ("Roots" patriarch) | 38 |
| __ Khan: Rita Hayworth's husband | 36 |
| __ Khan: "The Jungle Book" tiger | 42 |
| __ Khan ("Jungle Book" tiger) | 39 |
| __ Julia, who played Gomez Addams | 33 |
| __ Julia of "The Addams Family" | 41 |
| __ Johnston, former fiancé of Bristol Palin | 46 |
| __ Joe: ground-beef-on-a-bun concoction | 39 |
| __ jar: static electricity storage device | 41 |
| __ Jackson: rapper Ice Cube's birth name | 44 |
| __ it in for: holds a grudge against | 36 |
| __ Islands: Malay Archipelago group | 35 |
| __ Islands: autonomous Danish province | 38 |
| __ Islands (Caribbean financial center) | 39 |
| __ Island: former immigration center | 36 |
| __ Island, former immigration center | 36 |
| __ Island, Florida city near Naples | 35 |
| __ Island (immigrants' site) | 32 |
| __ Island (immigrants' landing place) | 41 |
| __ Island (former immigration center) | 37 |
| __ Island (former immigrant stop) | 33 |
| __ INSIDE (convenience-store sign) | 34 |
| __ INSIDE (convenience store sign) | 34 |
| __ Industries, one-time maker of slot cars | 42 |
| __ in ''sleepy'' | 32 |
| __ in ''Siberia'' | 33 |
| __ in ''iodine'' | 32 |
| __ II: 1961-'99 Moroccan king | 33 |
| __ II, king who founded Borg (now Sarpsborg) | 44 |
| __ House: Pennsylvania Ave. guest quarters | 42 |
| __ Hill (San Francisco neighborhood) | 36 |
| __ Heights: disputed Mideast territory | 38 |
| __ Haynes, first AFL Player of the Year | 39 |
| __ Gump Shrimp Co.: restaurant chain | 36 |
| __ guard: bit of catchers' gear | 35 |
| __ Grotto: ocean-themed Disney World play area | 46 |
| __ Grissom, former "CSI" role | 39 |
| __ Grande (part of Texas' border) | 37 |
| __ Gorbachev, last first lady of the USSR | 41 |
| __ gland: organ that secretes melatonin | 39 |
| __ Girl: former teen fashion mag | 32 |
| __ Genevieve: Missouri county or its seat | 41 |
| __ Fring, "Breaking Bad" drug kingpin | 47 |