| Name hollered in the "Flintstones" theme song | 55 |
| Nickname of the dwarf planet Eris before September 2006 | 55 |
| Number inaugurated into this puzzle's theme answers | 55 |
| NBA player who holds the record for most All-Star votes | 55 |
| NBC offering on Saturday at 9:30 for part of the 1980s | 54 |
| New element in each of this puzzle's theme answers | 54 |
| Novel for which the author declined the Pulitzer Prize | 54 |
| North Carolina county bordering Tennessee and Virginia | 54 |
| Novel followed up by "The Boyhood of Christ" | 54 |
| Nate's love interest on "Six Feet Under" | 54 |
| Navajo police detective Jim in a Tony Hillerman series | 54 |
| New York City neighborhood abutting Hell's Kitchen | 54 |
| NASA Ambassador of Exploration Award winner of '06 | 54 |
| Northern _____ , first Canadian Kentucky Derby winner | 54 |
| Norah Jones: "Don't know why I ___ come" | 54 |
| Number of points on the Canadian flag's maple leaf | 54 |
| Novelist Glyn who coined "It" as a euphemism | 54 |
| Name from a Hebrew word for "God is with us" | 54 |
| Name derived from ancient Greek for "I burn" | 54 |
| Nursery-rhyme guy who ''takes a wife'' | 54 |
| Number Tom Petty album "Long After Dark" was | 54 |
| Name that's Old English for "round hill" | 54 |
| Nationals whose flag declares "God is great" | 54 |
| New York mayor nicknamed "The Little Flower" | 54 |
| Name of the created woman in "Weird Science" | 54 |
| Nolan Ryan, e.g., when he started in the Major Leagues | 54 |
| Noah & The Whale "Just Me Before We ___" | 54 |
| New Hampshire's "Live Free or Die," e.g. | 54 |
| Nat. with the second-most medals at the Sochi Olympics | 54 |
| Nash's "ill wind that no one blows good" | 54 |
| Nash's "ill wind that nobody blows good" | 54 |
| Native of the largest of the central Ryukyu Islands | 54 |
| Neil Diamond/Waylon Jennings "___ Good Love" | 54 |
| NBA All-Star nicknamed "The Big Baryshnikov" | 54 |
| New York city home to the National Soccer Hall of Fame | 54 |
| Number 1 on Entertainment Weekly's 1998 power list | 54 |
| Nickname for a Boston skyscraper, with "The" | 54 |
| Nicole's ''Cold Mountain'' co-star | 54 |
| NBAer Artest who changed his name to Metta World Peace | 54 |
| Ned who won the Pulitzer for his "Air Music" | 54 |
| Nightspot where you can't be too big or too small? | 54 |
| Necessary sense for a driver (with an up-front charge) | 54 |
| New Orleans bluesman in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | 54 |
| New York City transport from the Bronx to Coney Island | 54 |
| Name shared by two brothers in the Hockey Hall of Fame | 54 |
| NASA's response to "How's business?" | 54 |
| Nighttime movie with Doris Day? (with "The") | 54 |
| Nova Scotia county, or Island in Northumberland Strait | 54 |
| NFL running back who forfeited his 2005 Heisman Trophy | 54 |
| Nation within a nation, casually, with "the" | 54 |
| Number of "Wonders" Fleetwood Mac sang about | 54 |
| Name of a nursery rhyme family with cholesterol issues | 54 |
| New York City nickname ... and this puzzle's title | 54 |
| Novel whose first sentence is "I am Ishmael" | 54 |
| Name on Rolling Stone's "Immortals" list | 54 |
| Not counting fas and las, word after "holly" | 54 |
| Neighborhood at the New York end of the Holland Tunnel | 54 |
| Nation whose flag is a yellow star on a red background | 54 |
| Note on a cal. to see the nutritionist? (presentation) | 54 |
| New Wave band with "Senses Working Overtime" | 54 |
| Native of Caprica on "Battlestar Galactica" | 53 |
| Nation that calls itself Republika e Shqipërisë | 53 |
| Nickname associated with America's largest island | 53 |
| NBA game sites (when the league isn't locked out) | 53 |
| Neil Diamond song that inspired "Clueless"? | 53 |
| Nation that says it's "Not Your Fault"? | 53 |
| N.H.L. defenseman who twice led the league in scoring | 53 |
| Nombre of Canadian rivers longer than 2000 kilometers | 53 |
| Next word after "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" | 53 |
| Neighborhood in the title of a 1987 Cheech Marin film | 53 |
| Nelson who sang "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life" | 53 |
| Name of counties in three states, all crossed by I-90 | 53 |
| Natural ___ (subject of "fracking" in 2012) | 53 |
| Number whose name inspired the name of a tech company | 53 |
| Narrator rescued by the Rachel at the novel's end | 53 |
| Nicholas of ___, patron saint of mariners and thieves | 53 |
| Nobel-winning subject of "A Beautiful Mind" | 53 |
| Noël Coward title woman "from Argentina" | 53 |
| National Council __ Raza: Hispanic civil rights group | 53 |
| Niece of Sir Toby Belch, in "Twelfth Night" | 53 |
| New York city nicknamed "City of the Hills" | 53 |
| New York school whose team is aptly named the Setters | 53 |
| Novel on which the film "Precious" is based | 53 |
| Narrow inlet hugely useful in constructing crosswords | 53 |
| Notion of which children must eventually be disabused | 53 |
| Napoleon's philosophy, according to George Orwell | 53 |
| New York Times film critic who succeeded Janet Maslin | 53 |
| Nintendo consoles for people with breathing problems? | 53 |
| New Mexico national monument whose name is a misnomer | 53 |
| Nickname for Babe Ruth (with ''the'') | 53 |
| New Year's item "dropped" in a brothel? | 53 |
| Nittany Lions all-time leader in touchdowns ___ Clark | 53 |
| Not as hard to pronounce as some 17th-century poetry? | 53 |
| Nervous sentiment after wrecking the parents' car | 53 |
| New Year's Eve techie's apology ... or is it? | 53 |
| Not what an impatient stripper's boss should say? | 53 |
| NHL Hall-of-Famer who co-owns the Pittsburgh Penguins | 53 |
| Nova Scotia's Lake ___, named for an Indian tribe | 53 |
| Novel about the life of Gauguin, with "The" | 53 |
| New Jersey hometown of Carl Sagan and Milton Friedman | 53 |