| The night's thousand | 24 |
| The night before Christmas | 26 |
| The Niger flows through it | 26 |
| The NHL's oldest arena | 26 |
| The NFL's Mannings, e.g. | 28 |
| The next Michael Jordan? | 24 |
| The next eleven seconds | 23 |
| The next day, to a poet | 23 |
| The New ___, in the 50's | 28 |
| The New Yorker writer Auletta | 29 |
| The New Yorker founder Harold | 29 |
| The New Yorker founder | 22 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist Roz | 29 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist | 25 |
| The New York Times, e.g. | 24 |
| The New York Liberty, e.g. | 26 |
| The New Testament has 21 | 24 |
| The New England Patriots? | 25 |
| The Netherlands before 1939? | 28 |
| The neighbor's kids | 23 |
| The neighbor's kid | 22 |
| The neighbor's child? | 25 |
| The Negro R. runs through it | 28 |
| The Negev's nation | 22 |
| The NCAA's Sun Devils | 25 |
| The NCAA's Minutemen | 24 |
| The NCAA's Huskies | 22 |
| The NCAA's Conference __ | 28 |
| The NCAA's Buckeyes | 23 |
| The NCAA's Black Knights | 28 |
| The Navigator Islands, today | 28 |
| The Nativity, for one? | 22 |
| The National ___ (tabloid) | 26 |
| The nation's capital | 24 |
| The Nation of Islam, for one | 28 |
| The Nanny has three | 22 |
| The N.Y. Giants are in it | 25 |
| The N.Y. Cosmos were in it | 26 |
| The N.L. doesn't use them | 29 |
| The N.H.L.'s Kovalchuk | 26 |
| The N.F.L.'s ___ Burress | 28 |
| The N.F.L.'s Papa Bear | 26 |
| The N.F.L.'s Aikman | 23 |
| The Mystery Machine, for one | 28 |
| The Mystery Machine, e.g. | 25 |
| The mysterious Mr. Geller | 25 |
| The Mustangs, for short | 23 |
| The Mustangs' sch. | 22 |
| The Mustangs of the NCAA | 24 |
| The Mustangs of the N.C.A.A. | 28 |
| The mustachioed brother | 23 |
| The Muses, for instance | 23 |
| The Muses, for example | 22 |
| The Munsters' pet dragon | 28 |
| The Munsters' pet bat | 25 |
| The Munster family car | 22 |
| The munchies, for example | 25 |
| The Muffin Man's lane | 25 |
| The Mountaineers' sch. | 26 |
| The motion of the ocean | 23 |
| The mother of invention | 23 |
| The Mother of all Nobelists? | 28 |
| The most you can command | 24 |
| The most worthless part | 23 |
| The most unsigned band? | 23 |
| The most powerful pair? | 23 |
| The most popular songs | 22 |
| The most important principle | 28 |
| The most important point | 24 |
| The most important person | 25 |
| The most from one hit is four | 29 |
| The mosquito zapper ... | 23 |
| The Mormons: Abbr. (3) | 22 |
| The Mormons, initially | 22 |
| The Mormons, for short | 22 |
| The Moor, to a madrileño | 27 |
| The Moor's manipulator | 26 |
| The moon was its target | 23 |
| The month following Shevat | 26 |
| The month following Shebat | 26 |
| THE MONTGOLFIER BROTHERS | 24 |
| The Monkees' drummer | 24 |
| The Monkeemobile, for one | 25 |
| The Monkeemobile, e.g. | 22 |
| The Monkeemobile et al. | 23 |
| The Modern Lovers founder | 25 |
| The Mod ____ : old TV show | 28 |
| The Mod Squad character | 26 |
| The Mississippi has a big one | 29 |
| The Mission's 2001 album | 28 |
| The missing link, e.g. | 22 |
| The Miners of the NCAA | 22 |
| The Miners of the N.C.A.A. | 26 |
| The Miners of Conference USA | 28 |
| The Miners of Conf. USA | 23 |
| The Milky Way and Andromeda | 27 |
| The Mikado executioner | 25 |
| The Mighty Mississippi | 22 |
| The Mideast's ____ Strip | 28 |
| The Mideast's __ Strip | 26 |