| Nearing the dew point | 21 |
| Nearing the bottom | 18 |
| Nearing retirement age, maybe | 29 |
| Nearing midnight | 16 |
| Nearing depletion | 17 |
| Nearing complete exhaustion | 27 |
| Nearing bedtime | 15 |
| Nearing a culmination | 21 |
| Nearing | 7 |
| Nearest, to Nero | 16 |
| Nearest to rotten | 17 |
| Nearest the top | 15 |
| Nearest the stern | 17 |
| Nearest the heart | 17 |
| Nearest the center | 18 |
| Nearest the audience | 20 |
| Nearest star to Pluto | 21 |
| Nearest star | 12 |
| Nearest orbital point | 21 |
| Nearest or next | 15 |
| Nearest major airport to Bush's Crawford ranch | 50 |
| Nearest in space or position | 28 |
| Nearest capital to Gibraltar | 28 |
| Nearest approach | 16 |
| Nearest | 7 |
| Nearer to the beach | 19 |
| Nearer the top of a regional map | 32 |
| Nearer the present | 18 |
| Nearer a volcanic eruption, perhaps | 35 |
| Nearer | 6 |
| Neared, with "on" | 27 |
| Neared empty | 12 |
| Neared an end | 13 |
| Neared (with "on") | 28 |
| Neared (with ''on'') | 36 |
| Neared | 6 |
| Nearby, poetically | 18 |
| Nearby, on a country road | 25 |
| Nearby things | 13 |
| Nearby star? | 12 |
| Nearby star | 11 |
| Nearby Silver Springs | 21 |
| Nearby school, maybe | 20 |
| Nearby orb | 10 |
| Nearby objects | 14 |
| Nearby movie houses | 19 |
| Nearby backup for the NYPD? | 27 |
| Nearby with to | 15 |
| Nearby | 6 |
| Near: Fr. | 9 |
| Near: abbr. | 11 |
| Near-worthless Russian currency unit | 36 |
| Near-winners at horseshoes | 26 |
| Near-the-belt excesses | 22 |
| Near-the-belt bulges | 20 |
| Near-spherical hairstyles | 25 |
| Near-slavery | 12 |
| Near-slave worker | 17 |
| Near-sighted person | 19 |
| Near-sighted cartoon character | 30 |
| Near-ringers, in horseshoes | 27 |
| Near-ringer | 11 |
| Near-rapture | 12 |
| Near-quarts | 11 |
| Near-quart | 10 |
| Near-prime seating | 18 |
| Near-perfect scores | 19 |
| Near-perfect score, maybe | 25 |
| Near-perfect ratings | 20 |
| Near-perfect rating | 19 |
| Near-perfect horseshoe pitch | 28 |
| Near-nemesis of 007 | 19 |
| Near-misser of zero hour | 24 |
| Near-Miss. state? | 17 |
| Near-Miss. state | 16 |
| Near-miss, perhaps | 18 |
| Near-miss utterance | 19 |
| Near-miss Tim Burton classic? | 29 |
| Near-miss Stanley Kubrick classic? | 34 |
| Near-miss Sir Walter Scott classic? | 35 |
| Near-miss Frank Capra classic? | 30 |
| Near-miss exclamation | 21 |
| Near-miss E.M. Forster classic? | 31 |
| Near-miss Dr. Seuss classic? | 28 |
| Near-miss Charlton Heston classic? | 34 |
| Near-miss Bill Murray classic? | 30 |
| Near-infinite timespans | 23 |
| Near-impossibilities in Major League Baseball | 45 |
| Near-hurricane-force wind | 25 |
| Near-homophone of Seoul's anagram | 37 |
| Near-homer | 10 |
| Near-hip | 8 |
| Near-great in baseball annals? | 30 |
| Near-grads: Abbr. | 17 |
| Near-grads | 10 |
| Near-flunking mark | 18 |
| Near-final hour | 15 |
| Near-failure | 12 |
| Near-failing mark | 17 |
| Near-failing grades | 19 |