| North Sea feeder of Germany | 27 |
| No longer married, in a way | 27 |
| Nintendo video-game console | 27 |
| Nineteenth-century gay icon | 27 |
| Notice to employees, part 2 | 27 |
| NBA Inside Stuff co-host | 27 |
| No place for a draft dodger | 27 |
| New York Liberty's org. | 27 |
| Not normally cast, as votes | 27 |
| Number of the 2016 Olympics | 27 |
| New England custom or trait | 27 |
| Native of a Caroline island | 27 |
| Not fly absolutely straight | 27 |
| Named, to Milton or Spenser | 27 |
| Nervous putter's malady | 27 |
| National park in California | 27 |
| National capital since 1991 | 27 |
| Nuzzling couple in England? | 27 |
| Number of calories in water | 27 |
| Not a good spot for a date? | 27 |
| Novelist-folklorist Hurston | 27 |
| Network with a bounty hunter | 28 |
| NBA legend Kareem ___-Jabbar | 28 |
| Noted sibling rivalry victim | 28 |
| Narrow pass in the Southwest | 28 |
| Not enough room to swing ___ | 28 |
| Nut in Vanderbilt's logo | 28 |
| Northern copperhead, for one | 28 |
| Nigerian musician King Sunny | 28 |
| N.F.L. rushing star Peterson | 28 |
| Needing to be put out, maybe | 28 |
| Negotiate a figurative hill? | 28 |
| Numbered days for a newborn? | 28 |
| Number of candles on a cake? | 28 |
| New, old or nuclear follower | 28 |
| Noted writer: 1909–55 | 28 |
| Noted 1940's film critic | 28 |
| New ___ (certain occultists) | 28 |
| Not eating anyone's dust | 28 |
| Not the best thing to put on | 28 |
| Not securely fastened, maybe | 28 |
| North African country: Abbr. | 28 |
| Name on a rap sheet, perhaps | 28 |
| Name on the runways of Milan | 28 |
| Not eliminated, as in a pool | 28 |
| Name in cosmetics since 1931 | 28 |
| Need after desert music fest | 28 |
| Newsletter recipients, maybe | 28 |
| Not knowing right from wrong | 28 |
| No. written twice on a check | 28 |
| Nat. whose capital is Luanda | 28 |
| Nickname for young Skywalker | 28 |
| Noted opera costume designer | 28 |
| Not ___ (mum's the word) | 28 |
| Nighttime breathing disorder | 28 |
| National STD Awareness Month | 28 |
| Notre Dame legend Parseghian | 28 |
| Noted Riverdale High student | 28 |
| NL West team, on scoreboards | 28 |
| Namesakes of a biblical king | 28 |
| Navy word for a depth charge | 28 |
| Nick and Nora's wirehair | 28 |
| Nick and Nora are his humans | 28 |
| New American Leaguer in 2013 | 28 |
| Nolan Bushnell's company | 28 |
| Not a profitable way to sell | 28 |
| NL East city, on scoreboards | 28 |
| Number pad locale, for short | 28 |
| Night owls' cash sources | 28 |
| New Year's Eve adjective | 28 |
| Not going steady with anyone | 28 |
| N.Y.C.'s Park or Madison | 28 |
| N.Y.C.'s ___ Fisher Hall | 28 |
| Name of three English rivers | 28 |
| Not in the realm of Morpheus | 28 |
| Not at Arrowhead, to a Chief | 28 |
| Nonsensical syllables, maybe | 28 |
| Newport Folk Festival figure | 28 |
| Needing stocking, as a shelf | 28 |
| Norman in "Psycho" | 28 |
| Newfoundland's Red _____ | 28 |
| Next to nothing, so to speak | 28 |
| Name on women's clothing | 28 |
| Name of four Hungarian kings | 28 |
| Nadia's gymnastics coach | 28 |
| Not adequate, except in golf | 28 |
| Neighbor of Nigeria and Togo | 28 |
| Nation once known as Dahomey | 28 |
| N.Y. catcher, manager, coach | 28 |
| Nickname of a famous warship | 28 |
| New parents' celebration | 28 |
| Not very famous, as an actor | 28 |
| Nellie who circled the world | 28 |
| Nerf-ball-to-the-noggin blow | 28 |
| NYC area, with 'the' | 28 |
| New Year's entertainment | 28 |
| Nice gift for a couch potato | 28 |
| No visible means of support? | 28 |
| Native of England, for short | 28 |
| NL or NFL team, in headlines | 28 |