| Nickname of the man (born 2/12/1809) who gave the address at 18A, issued the 28A/45A, was the first elected president of the 60A Party, and whose name can be found in this puzzle's main diagonal | 198 |
| Nevada city, the one place "Phil the Weatherman," at the beginning of "Groundhog Day," says he would like to be if he could choose; have you made the arrangments? | 182 |
| NTSC alternati...oh wait, no one else cares about analog television protocols and their effect on the framerates of classic video games. Let's just go with [Bud] for this clue | 179 |
| Nirvana "Sit and drink pennyroyal __" © 2010 Todd Santos Written By: Todd Santos | 172 |
| Name of the first level of Special World in "Super Mario World" for the SNES, right before "Tubular" and "Way Cool" (how '90s is that?) | 169 |
| Number of times this puzzle's theme word appears diagonally in the grid (to complete the puzzle, shade those words plus the Down answers that begin where they meet) | 168 |
| Negating conjunction [LAST WEEK: The hidden products were: Levi's, Glade, Total, Aleve, Comet, Crest, Advil, Lysol, Certs, Nestea and Cialis.] | 148 |
| Novel whose four parts are titled "The Plaintiff," "The Defendants," "Brief to Counsel," and "The Trial" | 144 |
| Next to his Princeton yearbook picture it says he "intends to go to law school and eventually to warm a seat on the Supreme Court" | 140 |
| Noted box opener (that, curiously, will tell you what to put in six of this puzzle's boxes when read with the enumeration 1 3/2 1) | 134 |
| Next words spoken by the same character after "The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king" | 134 |
| New element whose name will be ratified in January, 2010, and whose symbol appears in the middle of this puzzle's theme answers | 131 |
| New age artist who has supposedly sold more records than Nirvana and the Spice Girls, although I can't name one of her songs | 128 |
| Neologism for the superfluous diacritical marks seen in the names of many heavy bands, also called "röck döts" | 126 |
| Novel that begins "When Danny came home from the army he learned that he was an heir and an owner of property" | 120 |
| Name Jerry accidentally calls a girlfriend whose name rhymes with part of the female anatomy, on "Seinfeld" | 117 |
| Novel that ends "By noon, the island had gone down in the horizon; and all before us was the wide Pacific" | 116 |
| Nevertheless, she asked him if he had attended her high school, and after he said yes, she asked "...?" | 113 |
| Norbert Pearlroth spent 52 years of 60-hour weeks in the Library's Reading Room collecting material for ___ | 111 |
| New Jersey area code, in ancient Rome (oh, did you want to do Roman numeral math? That's what I thought) | 108 |
| Newsstand buy, for short—one begins each of the four longest puzzle answers (and also ends the last one) | 108 |
| Noted Seuss protagonist with an upcoming birthday, and a hint to a two-part puzzle that begins this week (1) | 108 |
| Name for a catastrophic (but fairly slow-moving and oh-so-sweet) 1919 flood in the capital of Massachusetts | 107 |
| New Hampshire home to midnight voting that traditionally gives the first results in presidential elections | 106 |
| Nearing the TV station billboard, you did "77 ___" where the sign said "60 Minutes"... | 106 |
| Nanobot's hypothetical ability, and the process that's overtaken this puzzle's theme answers | 104 |
| Novel that ends "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody" | 104 |
| Name for the tech support counter in many Apple stores, which is probably something of an overstatement | 103 |
| Nickname of the dictator who said "I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people" | 103 |
| Nabisco cookies ... and what you might cry upon solving this puzzle's three other longest answers? | 102 |
| Ntozake Shange play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is ___" | 101 |
| N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer who, with Walt Frazier, formed the Knicks' "Rolls Royce Backcourt" | 101 |
| Nickname popularized by a New York Morning Telegraph sportswriter in the 1920s, with "the" | 100 |
| Neil Diamond song with the lyrics "I used to call your name / when no one else would come" | 100 |
| Notable quote from the same movie as "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates" | 99 |
| Newcaster who said "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" | 98 |
| Narcissists' interests (one of which can be found in each of the puzzle's longest answers) | 98 |
| Number of unique lineups U2 has had, as well as the name of a single from "Achtung Baby" | 98 |
| New slogan for a North Carolina city trying to draw in visitors for tours of its old distilleries? | 98 |
| Notably snarky magazine/media empire [The AV goes subscription only soon! Sign up at avxwords.com] | 98 |
| Number of times the letter 'U' appears in each of this puzzle's eight longest answers | 97 |
| Non-fiction bestseller that was fact-checked by Associated Press five days before it was released | 97 |
| NBA strategy that involves deliberately fouling the opponent with the worst free throw percentage | 97 |
| Need bailing, or what five entries in this puzzle can do to make two overlapping words or phrases | 97 |
| Number of Belgian beers you plan on drinking (as screamed in "A Futbol Named Desire")? | 96 |
| 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 |
| Novel that begins "'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents'" | 93 |
| New wave classic with the lines "I wish I was in Tijuana / Eating barbecued iguana" | 93 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Noises you're guaranteed to hear after opting out of the naked body scanner machines? | 89 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |