| Near the center | 15 |
| Near the center of | 18 |
| Near the deck | 13 |
| Near the dew point | 18 |
| Near the ear | 12 |
| Near the elephant? | 18 |
| Near the end | 12 |
| Near the floor | 14 |
| Near the hip | 12 |
| Near the hipbone | 16 |
| Near the hour | 13 |
| Near the kidneys | 16 |
| Near the middle: Abbr. | 22 |
| Near the outset | 15 |
| Near the pelvis | 15 |
| Near the rear | 13 |
| Near the right answer | 21 |
| Near the runway | 15 |
| Near the ship's deck | 24 |
| Near the shore | 14 |
| Near the shoreline | 18 |
| Near the stomach | 16 |
| Near the surface | 16 |
| Near the taffrail | 17 |
| Near the tail | 13 |
| Near the treasure | 17 |
| Near thing | 10 |
| Near to home | 12 |
| Near to one's heart | 23 |
| Near to: Prefix | 15 |
| Near __ | 7 |
| Near ___ | 8 |
| Near's antithesis | 21 |
| Near, as beer | 13 |
| Near, but not in, the limelight | 31 |
| Near, Far or Middle follower | 28 |
| Near, in France | 15 |
| Near, in Newcastle | 18 |
| Near, in Nice | 13 |
| Near, in Niedersachsen | 22 |
| Near, in poesy | 14 |
| Near, poetically | 16 |
| Near, quaintly | 14 |
| Near, to a poet | 15 |
| Near-anonymity | 14 |
| Near-decades | 12 |
| Near-Earth asteroid | 19 |
| Near-Earth asteroid probed in 2001 | 34 |
| Near-East garment | 17 |
| Near-eternities | 15 |
| Near-eternity | 13 |
| Near-exhaustion metaphor | 24 |
| Near-failing grade | 18 |
| Near-failing grades | 19 |
| Near-failing mark | 17 |
| Near-failure | 12 |
| Near-final hour | 15 |
| Near-flunking mark | 18 |
| Near-grads | 10 |
| Near-grads: Abbr. | 17 |
| Near-great in baseball annals? | 30 |
| Near-hip | 8 |
| Near-homer | 10 |
| Near-homophone of Seoul's anagram | 37 |
| Near-hurricane-force wind | 25 |
| Near-impossibilities in Major League Baseball | 45 |
| Near-infinite timespans | 23 |
| Near-miss Bill Murray classic? | 30 |
| Near-miss Charlton Heston classic? | 34 |
| Near-miss Dr. Seuss classic? | 28 |
| Near-miss E.M. Forster classic? | 31 |
| Near-miss exclamation | 21 |
| Near-miss Frank Capra classic? | 30 |
| Near-miss Sir Walter Scott classic? | 35 |
| Near-miss Stanley Kubrick classic? | 34 |
| Near-miss Tim Burton classic? | 29 |
| Near-miss utterance | 19 |
| Near-miss, perhaps | 18 |
| Near-Miss. state | 16 |
| Near-Miss. state? | 17 |
| Near-misser of zero hour | 24 |
| Near-nemesis of 007 | 19 |
| Near-perfect horseshoe pitch | 28 |
| Near-perfect rating | 19 |
| Near-perfect ratings | 20 |
| Near-perfect score, maybe | 25 |
| Near-perfect scores | 19 |
| Near-prime seating | 18 |
| Near-quart | 10 |
| Near-quarts | 11 |
| Near-rapture | 12 |
| Near-ringer | 11 |
| Near-ringers, in horseshoes | 27 |
| Near-sighted cartoon character | 30 |
| Near-sighted person | 19 |
| Near-slave worker | 17 |
| Near-slavery | 12 |
| Near-spherical hairstyles | 25 |
| Near-the-belt bulges | 20 |
| Near-the-belt excesses | 22 |