| Notre Dame linebacker caught up in a dead-girlfriend hoax | 57 |
| Nominee Forest Whitaker's "___ of Scotland" | 57 |
| Number of seasons "Arrested Development" lasted | 57 |
| New York weekly since 1955 (with ''The'') | 57 |
| Nine-to-five routine, and hint to this puzzle's theme | 57 |
| Nancy ___, first female member of the British Parliament | 56 |
| Nickname shared by Benazir Bhutto and Benjamin Netanyahu | 56 |
| Nursery rhyme character who "fell fast asleep" | 56 |
| Ned's new love interest, on "The Simpsons" | 56 |
| Nation that built the first commuter rail to the suburbs | 56 |
| Number of "pipers piping" in a countdown carol | 56 |
| Network that employed Rush Limbaugh for about two months | 56 |
| Nicole's co-star in ''Moulin Rouge'' | 56 |
| Nursery rhyme line that finishes this puzzle's theme | 56 |
| Nicholson role in ''Prizzi's Honor'' | 56 |
| Neil Young "Out of the blue and ___ the black" | 56 |
| Name on the sheet music of " 'S Wonderful" | 56 |
| Neeson who voiced Aslan in the "Narnia" movies | 56 |
| Novel title character called "My sin, my soul" | 56 |
| Nobel Laureate portrayed in "A Beautiful Mind" | 56 |
| Native Arizonans who call themselves "Diné" | 56 |
| Name in several generations of New York Times publishers | 56 |
| Novus ___ seclorum (phrase on the back of a dollar bill) | 56 |
| NBA stars Steve Nash and Chris Paul, positionally: Abbr. | 56 |
| Name of one of the three mascots of the Baltimore Ravens | 56 |
| Newspaper with hardly the highest journalistic standards | 56 |
| New product line after USPS's takeover of Firestone? | 56 |
| New York city that's home to Playland amusement park | 56 |
| Nasser's successor [SEE NOTE ABOVE FOR INSTRUCTIONS] | 56 |
| NFL owner who moved the Oakland Raiders to L.A. and back | 56 |
| Nelson who wrote "The Man With the Golden Arm" | 56 |
| North Carolina city where the Biltmore Estate is located | 56 |
| New Year's tune transposed nine times in this puzzle | 56 |
| Noble Spanish lady caught up in undergraduate degree (8) | 56 |
| National Book Award-winning novelist named after Emerson | 56 |
| Neil Young "Keeps me searching for a ___ gold" | 56 |
| Nobel-winning economist who wrote "Fuzzy Math" | 56 |
| Norwegian king who converted the Vikings to Christianity | 56 |
| Nero's portrayer in "The Story of Mankind" | 56 |
| Neil Diamond title words after "I am the tune" | 56 |
| Nominee who was the subject of a 2006 filibuster attempt | 56 |
| Neil Young & Crazy Horse "___ With Angels" | 56 |
| New product line after Hallmark's takeover of Mensa? | 56 |
| Neil Diamond "Girl, You'll Be a Woman ___" | 56 |
| Nickname for a cheater in the Oklahoma land rush of 1889 | 56 |
| Neil Diamond lyric "And counting on ___ later" | 56 |
| Name that comes from Old Norse for "young man" | 56 |
| Nation that borders the Democratic Republic of the CongO | 56 |
| Nicolas Cage's co-star in "The Family Man" | 56 |
| Number of one-voweled, seven-letter words in this puzzle | 56 |
| Needing to sit on the window sill for a few minutes, say | 56 |
| Nonspeaking part in ''The Wizard of Oz'' | 56 |
| Number of "Little Sisters" Carly Simon sang of | 56 |
| New year of which there are five anagrams in this puzzle | 56 |
| Network that debuted with "Star Trek: Voyager" | 56 |
| Nation that finished fourth in the 2010 World Cup: Abbr. | 56 |
| Nat. that is the world's largest consumer of cocaine | 56 |
| Nearly all ''American Idol'' auditioners | 56 |
| Name whose Japanese symbols mean "ocean child" | 56 |
| Norman Lear's "Good Times" co-producer Bud | 56 |
| Name that comes from the Greek word for "life" | 56 |
| Netizen who might hear "You've got mail!" | 55 |
| NBA player Anthony Davis's nickname, with the" | 55 |
| National park whose name means "the high one" | 55 |
| National Inventors' Day is observed on his birthday | 55 |
| Ngaio Marsh's ''______ a Murderer'' | 55 |
| Northern Ireland river that shares its name with a bird | 55 |
| Noted performer of "The Star-Spangled Banner" | 55 |
| Nickname of "Celebration" bassist Robert Bell | 55 |
| Noted portrait subject of Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun | 55 |
| New York tickertape honorees, 1962, '69 and '86 | 55 |
| Neil Diamond "The ___ Album: As Time Goes By" | 55 |
| Not the best thing to have at the end of one's rope | 55 |
| Novel with the chapter "Farming in Polynesia" | 55 |
| Novel with a chapter called "Tahiti As It Is" | 55 |
| Noted talker whose name in reverse is a noted nontalker | 55 |
| Noble family name in medieval Italy shared by two popes | 55 |
| Nicole's "The Simple Life 2" travel buddy | 55 |
| Napoleon Dynamite's pal who becomes class president | 55 |
| Name derived from the German for "peppermint" | 55 |
| Name on the cover of "My Life as an Explorer" | 55 |
| Name for an animated beach bird voiced by actor Aiello? | 55 |
| New product line after Crayola's takeover of Delta? | 55 |
| New Hampshire city known for its annual motorcycle week | 55 |
| Naturalist who coined the term "invertebrate" | 55 |
| Noted conductor whose son played TV's Colonel Klink | 55 |
| Nondirectional transmitter of a usually constant signal | 55 |
| Notorious 1980 Boston Marathon "winner" Rosie | 55 |
| Nobelist who wrote ''Man and Superman'' | 55 |
| NBC sketch comedy show for Murray and Murphy, for short | 55 |
| Nick who played John Connor in "Terminator 3" | 55 |
| Ndamukong ___, 2010 N.F.L. Defensive Rookie of the Year | 55 |
| Nathan and Matthew's "Producers" director | 55 |
| New home of the toned-down "Sex and the City" | 55 |
| Newsman Baxter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" | 55 |
| Number of letters in the shortest answer in this puzzle | 55 |
| Novelty gift with non-standard crossword designs, often | 55 |
| Number of players on "La Ruota Della Fortuna" | 55 |
| New England sch. with campuses in Durham and Manchester | 55 |
| Network that once aired the "Cartoon Express" | 55 |