| Near-winners at horseshoes | 26 |
| Near-worthless Russian currency unit | 36 |
| Near: abbr. | 11 |
| Near: Fr. | 9 |
| Nearby | 6 |
| Nearby with to | 15 |
| Nearby backup for the NYPD? | 27 |
| Nearby movie houses | 19 |
| Nearby objects | 14 |
| Nearby orb | 10 |
| Nearby school, maybe | 20 |
| Nearby Silver Springs | 21 |
| Nearby star | 11 |
| Nearby star? | 12 |
| Nearby things | 13 |
| Nearby, on a country road | 25 |
| Nearby, poetically | 18 |
| Neared | 6 |
| Neared (with ''on'') | 36 |
| Neared (with "on") | 28 |
| Neared an end | 13 |
| Neared empty | 12 |
| Neared, with "on" | 27 |
| Nearer | 6 |
| Nearer a volcanic eruption, perhaps | 35 |
| Nearer the present | 18 |
| Nearer the top of a regional map | 32 |
| Nearer to the beach | 19 |
| Nearest | 7 |
| Nearest approach | 16 |
| Nearest capital to Gibraltar | 28 |
| Nearest in space or position | 28 |
| Nearest major airport to Bush's Crawford ranch | 50 |
| Nearest or next | 15 |
| Nearest orbital point | 21 |
| Nearest star | 12 |
| Nearest star to Pluto | 21 |
| Nearest the audience | 20 |
| Nearest the center | 18 |
| Nearest the heart | 17 |
| Nearest the stern | 17 |
| Nearest the top | 15 |
| Nearest to rotten | 17 |
| Nearest, to Nero | 16 |
| Nearing | 7 |
| Nearing a culmination | 21 |
| Nearing bedtime | 15 |
| Nearing complete exhaustion | 27 |
| Nearing depletion | 17 |
| Nearing midnight | 16 |
| Nearing retirement age, maybe | 29 |
| Nearing the bottom | 18 |
| Nearing the dew point | 21 |
| Nearing the hour | 16 |
| Nearing the TV station billboard, you did "77 ___" where the sign said "60 Minutes"... | 106 |
| Nearing-completion comment | 26 |
| Nearly | 6 |
| Nearly "A" material | 29 |
| Nearly 100 percent market share | 31 |
| Nearly 11,000-foot mount in Europe | 34 |
| Nearly 20-hour Ken Burns documentary of 2001 | 44 |
| Nearly 29% of Tel Aviv? | 23 |
| Nearly 30% of Earth's land | 30 |
| Nearly 40 inches | 16 |
| Nearly 5,000 square yards | 25 |
| Nearly 80% of the atmosphere | 28 |
| Nearly 9% of the Earth | 22 |
| Nearly 90 degrees | 17 |
| Nearly a billion people live in them | 36 |
| Nearly a dozen | 14 |
| Nearly a majority | 17 |
| Nearly a score | 14 |
| Nearly alike | 12 |
| Nearly all | 10 |
| Nearly all ''American Idol'' auditioners | 56 |
| Nearly all the time | 19 |
| Nearly an eternity | 18 |
| Nearly an hour? | 15 |
| Nearly birdied | 14 |
| Nearly boil | 11 |
| Nearly boils | 12 |
| Nearly boils, as water | 22 |
| Nearly catch, as the heels | 26 |
| Nearly circular shape used as the floor plan for most Bahá'i temples | 75 |
| Nearly closed | 13 |
| Nearly colorless | 16 |
| Nearly delivered | 16 |
| Nearly destitute | 16 |
| Nearly die laughing | 19 |
| Nearly divine one | 17 |
| Nearly dropping off | 19 |
| Nearly enough mollusks to form a jury | 37 |
| Nearly equal | 12 |
| Nearly even, as a race | 22 |
| Nearly excellent | 16 |
| Nearly extinct | 14 |
| Nearly extinct goose | 20 |
| Nearly extinct island language | 30 |
| Nearly failing | 14 |
| Nearly failing, to a prof | 25 |