| Neared, with "on" | 27 |
| Neared (with "on") | 28 |
| Nearby, on a country road | 25 |
| Nearby backup for the NYPD? | 27 |
| Near-winners at horseshoes | 26 |
| Near-the-belt excesses | 22 |
| Near-spherical hairstyles | 25 |
| Near-ringers, in horseshoes | 27 |
| Near-perfect score, maybe | 25 |
| Near-perfect horseshoe pitch | 28 |
| Near-misser of zero hour | 24 |
| Near-miss Tim Burton classic? | 29 |
| Near-miss Dr. Seuss classic? | 28 |
| Near-infinite timespans | 23 |
| Near-hurricane-force wind | 25 |
| Near-exhaustion metaphor | 24 |
| Near, in Niedersachsen | 22 |
| Near, Far or Middle follower | 28 |
| Near to one's heart | 23 |
| Near the ship's deck | 24 |
| Near the middle: Abbr. | 22 |
| Near the bottom of the barrel | 29 |
| Near the back, on a ship | 24 |
| Near the back, nautically | 25 |
| Near miss in tic-tac-toe | 24 |
| Near mid-millennium year | 24 |
| Near failure of a kind | 22 |
| Near Eastern V.I.P.'s | 25 |
| Near Eastern honorific | 22 |
| Near Eastern chieftain | 22 |
| Near each other, as the eyes | 28 |
| Neapolitans and Pisans | 22 |
| Neapolitan song title opening | 29 |
| Neapolitan song starter | 23 |
| Neapolitan painter Giordano | 27 |
| Neapolitan layer, for short | 27 |
| Neanderthals' home | 22 |
| Neanderthals' heyday | 24 |
| Neanderthal's wear | 22 |
| Neanderthal's weapon | 24 |
| Neanderthal's time | 22 |
| Neanderthal's home | 22 |
| Neanderthal man, for one | 24 |
| Neal-Douglas Oscar vehicle | 26 |
| Neal Conan's call letters | 29 |
| Ne-Yo "She ___ Me" | 28 |
| Ne'er's opposite | 24 |
| NE syst. with 64 campuses | 25 |
| NE Nevada county or its seat | 28 |
| NE African, to Shakespeare | 26 |
| NDP leadership seeker, once | 27 |
| NCOs two levels above cpl. | 26 |
| NCO's subordinates | 22 |
| NCO with three chevrons | 23 |
| NCO two levels above cpl. | 25 |
| NCAA's __-12 conference | 27 |
| NCAA's Runnin' -- | 25 |
| NCAA year-end games system | 26 |
| NCAA tournament nail-biters | 27 |
| NCAA rival of Michigan | 22 |
| NCAA Mountain West Conf. team | 29 |
| NCAA football matchup system | 28 |
| NCAA Division I school | 22 |
| NCAA basketball champs, U-___ | 29 |
| NCAA and NAACP, for two | 23 |
| NBC, to General Electric | 24 |
| NBC's peacock, e.g. | 23 |
| NBC's parent, formerly | 26 |
| NBC's parent company | 24 |
| NBC's morning show | 22 |
| NBC's Holt and namesakes | 28 |
| NBC's former owner | 22 |
| NBC weekend hit, briefly | 24 |
| NBC weekend comedy, briefly | 27 |
| NBC weekend comedy show | 23 |
| NBC staple since 1/14/52 | 24 |
| NBC staple for over 30 years | 28 |
| NBC Sports personality | 22 |
| NBC skit show since '75 | 27 |
| NBC show with skits, in brief | 29 |
| NBC show with sketches | 22 |
| NBC show with satirical skits | 29 |
| NBC show with Baba Wawa skits | 29 |
| NBC show since '75 | 22 |
| NBC series since '75 | 24 |
| NBC program since 1975 | 22 |
| NBC prime time comedian | 23 |
| NBC post-prime time staple | 26 |
| NBC parent beginning in 2011 | 28 |
| NBC offering, in brief | 22 |
| NBC newswoman O'Donnell | 27 |
| NBC newsmagazine series | 23 |
| NBC News correspondent Roger | 28 |
| NBC news correspondent Hill | 27 |
| NBC News anchor Williams | 24 |
| NBC late-night comedy hit | 25 |
| NBC hit starting in '75 | 27 |
| NBC fixture since 1975 | 22 |
| NBC fixture since '75 | 25 |
| NBC debut of Oct. 1975 | 22 |