| Nominees for them are announced in January | 42 |
| Nominee's important supporter | 33 |
| Nominal promotion of a military officer | 39 |
| Nombre of Teams in the Canadian football league | 47 |
| Nombre of nations bordering Canada | 34 |
| Nombre of Canadian mountains over 5100 meters | 45 |
| Nombre of Canada's official languages | 41 |
| Nombre of major Canadian television networks | 45 |
| Nombre of Canadian-born Governors General | 42 |
| Nomads in a long John Hodgman list | 34 |
| Nomadic herder of Kenya and Tanzania | 36 |
| Nom de puzzle, for crossword writers | 36 |
| Nom de plume of Nancy Drew mysteries | 36 |
| Nolte/Murphy film "48___" | 35 |
| Nolte-Murphy film "48 ___" | 36 |
| Nolte's "48 _____" | 32 |
| Nolte of ''Tropic Thunder'' | 43 |
| Noli me ___ ("no meddling") | 37 |
| Nolan traded from the Mets for Jim Fregosi | 42 |
| Nolan Ryan, for most of the 80's | 36 |
| Nolan Bushnell's video game company | 39 |
| Nokia, in the telephone business? | 33 |
| Noisy warning device in the home | 32 |
| Noisy quarrels about a colorful crop? | 37 |
| Noisy group from Columbus's birthplace? | 43 |
| Noisy fan or truffle-hunting hog, e.g. | 38 |
| Noises heard more on LPs than CDs | 33 |
| Noisemakers at Tampa Bay Rays games | 35 |
| Noise that Emily Post wouldn't approve of | 45 |
| Noise made while standing on a chair, say | 41 |
| Noise made by an extremely excited fangirl | 42 |
| Noise heard after someone crashes, maybe | 40 |
| Noise from a diaphragmatic spasm | 32 |
| Noir-era slang for a safecracker | 32 |
| Noir's counterpart in roulette | 34 |
| Noi Bai International Airport city | 34 |
| Noguchi of fuckyournoguchicoffeetable.tumblr.com | 48 |
| Noggin with a sweat absorber around it? | 39 |
| NOFX's "Idiot Son ___ Asshole" | 44 |
| NOFX "___ Have Feelings Too" | 38 |
| NOFX "Food, Sex and ___" | 34 |
| Noel Coward's "___ Happy Breed" | 45 |
| Nods from a New Jersey hoopster? | 32 |
| Nocturnal ungulate with a long snout | 36 |
| Nocturnal swimmer of Greek legend | 33 |
| Nocturnal rodent hunter on a farm | 33 |
| Nocturnal primate with a ringed tail | 36 |
| Nocturnal flier meets a baseball employee? | 42 |
| Nocturnal birds liable to keep people awake | 43 |
| Nocturnal bird with an onomatopoeic name | 40 |
| Nocturnal animals of the upper Congo | 36 |
| Nocturnal "woodcutter's" activity | 47 |
| Nobody's-going-to-help-you letters | 38 |
| Nobody's good at them nowadays | 34 |
| Nobody too big or too small, on a sign | 38 |
| Nobody doesn't like this Sara | 33 |
| Nobody doesn't like her, in a slogan | 40 |
| Nobles and knights in the Middle Ages, e.g. | 43 |
| Noblemen ranking above viscounts | 32 |
| Nobleman to whom Juliet was betrothed | 37 |
| Nobleman ranking above a viscount | 33 |
| Nobleman in "Henry VIII" | 34 |
| Nobleman between a viscount and a marquis | 41 |
| Noble's title, abroad (var.) | 32 |
| Noble Italian family that yielded four popes | 44 |
| Noble family line which ended in 1803 | 37 |
| Noble defender of the downtrodden? | 34 |
| Nobelists Heisenberg and Forssmann | 34 |
| Nobelist with Shimon and Yitzhak | 32 |
| Nobelist who wrote "Night" | 36 |
| Nobelist who proposed a League of Peace | 39 |
| Nobelist who co-discovered the structure of DNA | 47 |
| Nobelist poet ___ Axel Karlfeldt | 32 |
| Nobelist novelist-poet Lagerlöf | 34 |
| Nobelist Max Born's granddaughter | 37 |
| Nobelist in Physiology or Medicine: 1954 | 40 |
| Nobelist Frederick ___, pioneer in radiochemistry | 49 |
| Nobelist for whom a physics unit is named | 41 |
| Nobelist author of "Siddhartha" | 41 |
| Nobelist and statesman Hammarskjold | 35 |
| Nobel-winning U.N. workers' gp. | 35 |
| Nobel-winning Spanish novelist Camilo José ___ | 49 |
| Nobel-winning relief org. for kids | 34 |
| Nobel-winning poet Juan Ramón ___ | 36 |
| Nobel-winning physicist Schrödinger | 38 |
| Nobel-winning physicist Rutherford | 34 |
| Nobel-winning Norwegian author Undset | 37 |
| Nobel-winning Japanese prime minister | 37 |
| Nobel-winning Holocaust chronicler | 34 |
| Nobel-winning father-and-son physicists | 39 |
| Nobel-winning economist Lawrence | 32 |
| Nobel-winning "Mother" | 32 |
| Nobel winner Leo Esaki's birthplace | 39 |
| Nobel Prize-winning U.N. workers' grp. | 42 |
| Nobel Prize-winning physicist Bohr | 34 |
| Nobel Prize-winning novelist ___ Gordimer | 41 |
| Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gordimer | 37 |
| Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet | 32 |
| Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry: 1920 | 37 |
| Nobel Prize winner Felix or Konrad | 34 |