| North African country whose only 2008 Olympic medal was a bronze in judo | 72 |
| Norwegian king who ... oh, as if you know anything about Norwegian kings | 72 |
| Norman Vincent ___, author of "The Power of Positive Thinking" | 72 |
| New Jersey borough where Edison built the first electric lighting system | 72 |
| Need to touch all the items on one's desk before leaving, say: Abbr. | 72 |
| New releases that honor the four baseball greats featured in this puzzle | 72 |
| Noted student of actress Jean Arthur when Arthur was a teacher at Vassar | 72 |
| Network advertising "the greatest motion pictures of all time" | 72 |
| New Age musician John who used to host "Entertainment Tonight" | 72 |
| N.L. outfielder who won a Gold Glove in 1970 along with Clemente and Rose | 73 |
| Name in Keats's "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" | 73 |
| Novelist Elinor who coined the "It girl" nickname for Clara Bow | 73 |
| New Jersey rocker featured in the 12/12/12 Hurricane Sandy relief concert | 73 |
| Nickname for Nantucket, because of its frequent fog, with "the" | 73 |
| Nancy Reagan's antidrug slogan, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 73 |
| New wave #1 hit with the repeated line "That ain't working" | 73 |
| Novel whose first chapter is titled “Up the Mountain to Alm-Uncle” | 74 |
| North Africans disputed in a "Seinfeld" Trivial Pursuit question | 74 |
| Nickname of the university that was the site of a 1962 desegregation drama | 74 |
| Name on "Sons of Anarchy" and "The Andy Griffith Show" | 74 |
| Name of Michael's penis in the Judy Blume book "Forever ..." | 74 |
| Number five on askmen.com's "Top 10 Models of All Time" poll | 74 |
| Nightly battle between a spouse who wants to read and one who doesn't? | 74 |
| Novello who played the title role in Hitchcock's "The Lodger" | 75 |
| Novel that begins "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" | 75 |
| NBA military appreciation initiative, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 75 |
| Nearly circular shape used as the floor plan for most Bahá'i temples | 75 |
| NFL star Michael who was the basis for the movie "The Blind Side" | 75 |
| Nerdy band with "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass" | 75 |
| Name that might elicit giggles if used in the song "The Name Game" | 76 |
| Neal Cassady's occupation in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" | 76 |
| Nickname for racer Dale Earnhardt Sr., so called because of his stubbornness | 76 |
| Not how a stripper should say "No problem!" in a business meeting? | 76 |
| Nixon whose voice replaced Natalie Wood's in "West Side Story" | 76 |
| Nickname of Pink Floyd musician Barrett after he became a financial watchdog | 76 |
| Nebraska town made famous as the home office of Letterman's Top Ten List | 76 |
| Nickname for a team from Miami, and an aural hint to the theme of this puzzle | 77 |
| Not too shabby, in slang (because saying "-ent" takes way too long) | 77 |
| New York mayor incorporates witticism; it sends opponents to the floor (2, 5) | 77 |
| Name for London's subway system and an outdated slang term for television | 77 |
| Nintendo product on many "worst game controllers of all time" lists | 77 |
| Novelist who wrote the screenplay for "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" | 77 |
| Novel with the subtitle "A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns" | 77 |
| Number in the Cookie Monster song "They Not Take That Away From Me" | 77 |
| NFLer Harris, known for his 1972 game-winning "Immaculate Reception" | 78 |
| NBC reality show that taped contestants drinking donkey semen (it never aired) | 78 |
| NBC show that featured Janis Ian and Billy Preston as its first musical guests | 78 |
| Nickname of the author of the children's book "Hit a Grand Slam!" | 79 |
| Nickname for a longtime Dartmouth humor periodical named for a Halloween symbol | 79 |
| Nellie's portrayer in the version of "South Pacific" aired by PBS | 79 |
| Novel that opens "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day" | 79 |
| Nickname for infielder Ernie Banks, who stayed with one team for eighteen years | 79 |
| N.B.A. first name that's Arabic for "noble" or "exalted" | 80 |
| Nancy who's slated to replace Mary Hart on "Entertainment Tonight" | 80 |
| Number two on Forbes's 2011 list of The World's Most Powerful Celebrities | 81 |
| Network seen in "The Soup" segment "Tales From Home Shopping" | 81 |
| Name on the label of the world's most popular soft drink, until the year 1009 | 81 |
| N.B.A. star who was on the cover of Sports Illustrated while still in high school | 81 |
| Nebraska town, named after an Indian tribe, featured in "Lonesome Dove" | 81 |
| New slogan for a Texas city trying to spread the word about its cheap ammunition? | 81 |
| New York theater on the National Register of Historic Places, with "the" | 82 |
| Name that becomes another name when an F is added to the front and an X to the end | 82 |
| Nuke deliverer [The AV xword goes subscription only soon! Sign up at avxwords.com] | 82 |
| Native American group (and source of a Washington city that differs by one letter) | 82 |
| New York stadium that was the site of the first professional outdoor basketball game | 84 |
| Noble headpiece that becomes a brass instrument if you remove it's middle letter | 84 |
| Natural talent[For the explanation of last week's theme, see the last Down clue] | 84 |
| Nickname for the three-letter abbreviation hidden in this puzzle's theme entries | 84 |
| narstar69: omfg u guys / houstongrco: d00d wtf / narstar69: thatz 1 small step lol | 84 |
| Name for a storm in which romaine lettuce, Parmesan, and croutons fall from the sky? | 84 |
| Nickname of gnome sculptor Tom Clark when he was a religion prof at Davidson College | 84 |
| Network where "The Newlywed Game" will feature its first gay couple in 2009 | 85 |
| Nora who asked her husband "Why don't you write books people can read?" | 85 |
| Nile Rodgers band I can't believe aren't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame yet | 86 |
| Nebraska city that serves as David Letterman's Top 10 List "home office" | 86 |
| Nirvana song beginning "I'm so happy 'cause today I found my friends" | 87 |
| NFL Hall of Fame receiver who is first cousins once removed with jazz legend Thelonious | 87 |
| New Hampshire town whose Daily Sun was the first newspaper to publish sudoku in English | 87 |
| Nation invented by a John Kerry flub in his first major speech as US Secretary of State | 87 |
| Newman who is running against Jerry Costello for Illinois' 12th congressal district | 87 |
| News Corporation-owned Web site that's one of the 10 most visited sites in the world | 88 |
| Newly-introduced element that alters the situation in a significant way, in modern lingo | 88 |
| Nickname for the lead singer of Aerosmith, who keeps spilling glittery paint on himself? | 88 |
| Nickname of the British general who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo (with "The") | 88 |
| Number for soccer legend Andriy Shevchenko--at least, when he played for an Italian club | 88 |
| Noises you're guaranteed to hear after opting out of the naked body scanner machines? | 89 |
| Name after "Chasing" in a movie title and "Judging" in a TV show title | 90 |
| Number that "Sesame Street" was not "brought to you by" for many years | 90 |
| NFL quarterback whose signature move is kissing his flexed bicep after scoring a touchdown | 90 |
| New slogan for a California city trying to advertise its wild playground basketball games? | 90 |
| New 13th zodiac sign that would cause all these changes (if astrologers took it seriously) | 90 |
| New slogan for an Arizona city trying to emphasize strong elementary school math programs? | 90 |
| No. 6 on the ABA Journal's list of the 25 greatest law novels ever (by Herman Melville) | 91 |
| Nickname for hockey legend Phil that's one letter away from a network that might use it | 91 |
| Newsman who famously defined news as "something somebody doesn't want printed" | 92 |
| New wave classic that begins "Talking away / I don't know what I'm to say" | 92 |
| Noted children's book illustrator (one of six "middle C" people in this puzzle) | 93 |
| Number of tiles per Scrabble set for the letter at the end of the answer to each starred clue | 93 |
| Number of protons by which the elements in the four longest puzzle answers have been enhanced | 93 |
| National Leaguer who was ranked first, second, or third in walks every year from 1929 to 1944 | 93 |