| The number chosen | 17 |
| The number called | 17 |
| The number at left + 1 | 22 |
| The number after ocho, lined up vertically? | 43 |
| The Nuge, or Uncle ___ | 22 |
| The Nuge's tool | 19 |
| The nth degree? | 15 |
| The NRC replaced it | 19 |
| The NRA's official winery? | 30 |
| The NRA once called its agents "jack-booted thugs" | 60 |
| The NRA has one | 15 |
| The nouveaux riches put it on | 29 |
| The notorious Ms Braun | 22 |
| The Notorious B.I.G., for one | 29 |
| The Notorious B.I.G., e.g. | 26 |
| The not-so-hokey pokey | 22 |
| The Nostra of Cosa Nostra | 25 |
| The nose most in need of tissues | 32 |
| The Norwegians | 14 |
| The north wind, personified | 27 |
| The north wind | 14 |
| The North Star | 14 |
| The North and the South, in the Civil War | 41 |
| The North and South, in the Civil War | 37 |
| The Norse Zeus | 14 |
| The Norse Olympus | 17 |
| The Normandy Campaign was part of it: Abbr. | 43 |
| The normal-looking Munster | 26 |
| The norm: Abbr. | 15 |
| The non-silence of lambs | 24 |
| The non-professionals | 21 |
| The nominees | 12 |
| The nod | 7 |
| The No. 5 designer | 18 |
| The no-longer-hungry moth was ___ | 33 |
| The nitty-gritty | 16 |
| The Nittany Lions: Abbr. | 24 |
| The Nittany Lions' sch. | 27 |
| The Nits' "Your Next ___" | 39 |
| The ninth day before the ides | 29 |
| The ninth | 9 |
| The Ninja Turtles, e.g. | 23 |
| The nine on a diamond | 21 |
| The Nine Days' Queen | 24 |
| The Nina or Pinta, but not the Santa MarÃa | 45 |
| The Nile, to Isaiah | 19 |
| The Nile, as a god | 18 |
| The Nile's loc. | 19 |
| The Nile's cont. | 20 |
| The Nile has one | 16 |
| The Nile flows through it | 25 |
| The Nikkei's market: Abbr. | 30 |
| The Nike Swoosh, e.g. | 21 |
| The NIH's home city | 23 |
| The night's thousand | 24 |
| The Night of the Grizzly actor | 33 |
| The night before Christmas, say | 31 |
| The night before Christmas, e.g. | 32 |
| The night before Christmas | 26 |
| The night before | 16 |
| The Niger flows through it | 26 |
| The NHL's Senators, on scoreboards | 38 |
| The NHL's Phil, familiarly | 30 |
| The NHL's oldest arena | 26 |
| The NFL's Montana and Favre, e.g. | 37 |
| The NFL's Mannings, e.g. | 28 |
| The NFL's Manning brothers, for two | 39 |
| The NFL's Cowboys, on scoreboards | 37 |
| The NFL's Cowboys | 21 |
| The NFL's Aikman | 20 |
| The NFL's "Golden Arm" | 36 |
| The next United States one will be in 2010 | 42 |
| The next one takes place in Shanghai, 2010 | 42 |
| The next one is 2016 | 20 |
| The next Michael Jordan? | 24 |
| The next generation | 19 |
| The next eleven seconds | 23 |
| The next day, to a poet | 23 |
| The newly-elected | 17 |
| The newly elected | 17 |
| The New ___, in the 50's | 28 |
| The New ___ | 11 |
| The New Yorker writer Auletta | 29 |
| The New Yorker piece | 20 |
| The New Yorker illustrator Irvin | 32 |
| The New Yorker founder, Harold | 30 |
| The New Yorker founder Harold | 29 |
| The New Yorker founder | 22 |
| The New Yorker contributor until 1968 | 37 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist William | 33 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist Roz | 29 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist Peter | 31 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist Edward | 32 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist Chast | 31 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist Addams | 32 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist | 25 |
| The New Yorker caricaturist Edward | 34 |
| The New York Times, e.g. | 24 |
| The New York Times publisher | 31 |
| The New York Nets were its last champs: Abbr. | 45 |