| Nomination for which Susan Lucci finally won an Emmy | 52 |
| Nickname of catchers Carlton Fisk and Ivan Rodriguez | 52 |
| Novel about the seriousness of a weather phenomenon? | 52 |
| Necco candy with vanilla, caramel, peanut, and fudge | 52 |
| Nonet of black squares in this grid, typographically | 52 |
| Novel republished to commemorate its 2012 centennial | 52 |
| Nanny ___ (folk remedy of sheep manure in hot water) | 52 |
| Neil Young "Out of ___ and into the black" | 52 |
| Name shared by counties in New York and Pennsylvania | 52 |
| Nora's husband in "A Doll's House" | 52 |
| Number of "jours" in "septembre" | 52 |
| North African capital for which its country is named | 52 |
| Nichelle Nichols's role on "Star Trek" | 52 |
| Nat. currently ranked 11 on FIFA's world ranking | 52 |
| New York location of the first WoolworthÂ’s store | 52 |
| Nickname of former New York Jets coach Wilbur Ewbank | 52 |
| NOFX "___ Out the Soles of My Party Boots" | 52 |
| Nigeria is the world's largest producer of these | 52 |
| Nickelodeon cartoon, ''Invader ___'' | 52 |
| Native of Caprica on "Battlestar Galactica" | 53 |
| Nation that calls itself Republika e Shqipërisë | 53 |
| Nickname associated with America's largest island | 53 |
| NBA game sites (when the league isn't locked out) | 53 |
| Neil Diamond song that inspired "Clueless"? | 53 |
| Nation that says it's "Not Your Fault"? | 53 |
| N.H.L. defenseman who twice led the league in scoring | 53 |
| Nombre of Canadian rivers longer than 2000 kilometers | 53 |
| Next word after "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" | 53 |
| Neighborhood in the title of a 1987 Cheech Marin film | 53 |
| Nelson who sang "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life" | 53 |
| Name of counties in three states, all crossed by I-90 | 53 |
| Natural ___ (subject of "fracking" in 2012) | 53 |
| Number whose name inspired the name of a tech company | 53 |
| Narrator rescued by the Rachel at the novel's end | 53 |
| Nicholas of ___, patron saint of mariners and thieves | 53 |
| Nobel-winning subject of "A Beautiful Mind" | 53 |
| Noël Coward title woman "from Argentina" | 53 |
| National Council __ Raza: Hispanic civil rights group | 53 |
| Niece of Sir Toby Belch, in "Twelfth Night" | 53 |
| New York city nicknamed "City of the Hills" | 53 |
| New York school whose team is aptly named the Setters | 53 |
| Novel on which the film "Precious" is based | 53 |
| Narrow inlet hugely useful in constructing crosswords | 53 |
| Notion of which children must eventually be disabused | 53 |
| Napoleon's philosophy, according to George Orwell | 53 |
| New York Times film critic who succeeded Janet Maslin | 53 |
| Nintendo consoles for people with breathing problems? | 53 |
| New Mexico national monument whose name is a misnomer | 53 |
| Nickname for Babe Ruth (with ''the'') | 53 |
| New Year's item "dropped" in a brothel? | 53 |
| Nittany Lions all-time leader in touchdowns ___ Clark | 53 |
| Not as hard to pronounce as some 17th-century poetry? | 53 |
| Nervous sentiment after wrecking the parents' car | 53 |
| New Year's Eve techie's apology ... or is it? | 53 |
| Not what an impatient stripper's boss should say? | 53 |
| NHL Hall-of-Famer who co-owns the Pittsburgh Penguins | 53 |
| Nova Scotia's Lake ___, named for an Indian tribe | 53 |
| Novel about the life of Gauguin, with "The" | 53 |
| New Jersey hometown of Carl Sagan and Milton Friedman | 53 |
| Nombre of Canadian lakes over 18000 square kilometers | 53 |
| National park that inspired "The Lion King" | 53 |
| Not a good person to entrust with secrets, informally | 53 |
| Name linked to "This pie is occupewed" etc. | 53 |
| NBA star Kobe Bryant has nicknamed "Gatsby" | 53 |
| Network with the dating show "12 Corazones" | 53 |
| Novel about getting English actor Michael to shut up? | 53 |
| Number signifying "the end" on a wire story | 53 |
| New York county bordering Pennsylvania, or vice versa | 53 |
| Numero di R's in "arrivederci" / Razzes | 53 |
| Not leave hanging? (or a hint to the circled letters) | 53 |
| Novel subtitled "A Peep at Polynesian Life" | 53 |
| Numerical classification of some World War II U-boats | 53 |
| Number pointed to by the shortest shadow on a sundial | 53 |
| New Age musician who famously played at the Acropolis | 53 |
| NBC offering on Saturday at 9:30 for part of the 1980s | 54 |
| New element in each of this puzzle's theme answers | 54 |
| Novel for which the author declined the Pulitzer Prize | 54 |
| North Carolina county bordering Tennessee and Virginia | 54 |
| Novel followed up by "The Boyhood of Christ" | 54 |
| Nate's love interest on "Six Feet Under" | 54 |
| Navajo police detective Jim in a Tony Hillerman series | 54 |
| New York City neighborhood abutting Hell's Kitchen | 54 |
| NASA Ambassador of Exploration Award winner of '06 | 54 |
| Northern _____ , first Canadian Kentucky Derby winner | 54 |
| Norah Jones: "Don't know why I ___ come" | 54 |
| Number of points on the Canadian flag's maple leaf | 54 |
| Novelist Glyn who coined "It" as a euphemism | 54 |
| Name from a Hebrew word for "God is with us" | 54 |
| Name derived from ancient Greek for "I burn" | 54 |
| Nursery-rhyme guy who ''takes a wife'' | 54 |
| Number Tom Petty album "Long After Dark" was | 54 |
| Name that's Old English for "round hill" | 54 |
| Nationals whose flag declares "God is great" | 54 |
| New York mayor nicknamed "The Little Flower" | 54 |
| Name of the created woman in "Weird Science" | 54 |
| Nolan Ryan, e.g., when he started in the Major Leagues | 54 |
| Noah & The Whale "Just Me Before We ___" | 54 |
| New Hampshire's "Live Free or Die," e.g. | 54 |
| Nat. with the second-most medals at the Sochi Olympics | 54 |
| Nash's "ill wind that no one blows good" | 54 |