| Nickname popularized by a New York Morning Telegraph sportswriter in the 1920s, with "the" | 100 |
| Neil Diamond song with the lyrics "I used to call your name / when no one else would come" | 100 |
| Ntozake Shange play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is ___" | 101 |
| N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer who, with Walt Frazier, formed the Knicks' "Rolls Royce Backcourt" | 101 |
| Nabisco cookies ... and what you might cry upon solving this puzzle's three other longest answers? | 102 |
| Name for the tech support counter in many Apple stores, which is probably something of an overstatement | 103 |
| Nickname of the dictator who said "I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people" | 103 |
| Nanobot's hypothetical ability, and the process that's overtaken this puzzle's theme answers | 104 |
| Novel that ends "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody" | 104 |
| New Hampshire home to midnight voting that traditionally gives the first results in presidential elections | 106 |
| Nearing the TV station billboard, you did "77 ___" where the sign said "60 Minutes"... | 106 |
| Name for a catastrophic (but fairly slow-moving and oh-so-sweet) 1919 flood in the capital of Massachusetts | 107 |
| New Jersey area code, in ancient Rome (oh, did you want to do Roman numeral math? That's what I thought) | 108 |
| Newsstand buy, for short—one begins each of the four longest puzzle answers (and also ends the last one) | 108 |
| Noted Seuss protagonist with an upcoming birthday, and a hint to a two-part puzzle that begins this week (1) | 108 |
| Norbert Pearlroth spent 52 years of 60-hour weeks in the Library's Reading Room collecting material for ___ | 111 |
| Nevertheless, she asked him if he had attended her high school, and after he said yes, she asked "...?" | 113 |
| Novel that ends "By noon, the island had gone down in the horizon; and all before us was the wide Pacific" | 116 |
| Name Jerry accidentally calls a girlfriend whose name rhymes with part of the female anatomy, on "Seinfeld" | 117 |
| Novel that begins "When Danny came home from the army he learned that he was an heir and an owner of property" | 120 |
| Neologism for the superfluous diacritical marks seen in the names of many heavy bands, also called "röck döts" | 126 |
| New age artist who has supposedly sold more records than Nirvana and the Spice Girls, although I can't name one of her songs | 128 |
| New element whose name will be ratified in January, 2010, and whose symbol appears in the middle of this puzzle's theme answers | 131 |
| Noted box opener (that, curiously, will tell you what to put in six of this puzzle's boxes when read with the enumeration 1 3/2 1) | 134 |
| Next words spoken by the same character after "The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king" | 134 |
| Next to his Princeton yearbook picture it says he "intends to go to law school and eventually to warm a seat on the Supreme Court" | 140 |
| Novel whose four parts are titled "The Plaintiff," "The Defendants," "Brief to Counsel," and "The Trial" | 144 |
| Negating conjunction [LAST WEEK: The hidden products were: Levi's, Glade, Total, Aleve, Comet, Crest, Advil, Lysol, Certs, Nestea and Cialis.] | 148 |
| Number of times this puzzle's theme word appears diagonally in the grid (to complete the puzzle, shade those words plus the Down answers that begin where they meet) | 168 |
| 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 |
| Nirvana "Sit and drink pennyroyal __" © 2010 Todd Santos Written By: Todd Santos | 172 |
| NTSC alternati...oh wait, no one else cares about analog television protocols and their effect on the framerates of classic video games. Let's just go with [Bud] for this clue | 179 |
| Nevada city, the one place "Phil the Weatherman," at the beginning of "Groundhog Day," says he would like to be if he could choose; have you made the arrangments? | 182 |
| Nickname of the man (born 2/12/1809) who gave the address at 18A, issued the 28A/45A, was the first elected president of the 60A Party, and whose name can be found in this puzzle's main diagonal | 198 |