| NYC transit org. created in Robert Moses's waning years | 59 |
| NYC subway line runs from Bedford Park Boulevard to Brighton Beach | 66 |
| NYC rapper once associated with The Notorious B.I.G. | 52 |
| NYC neighborhood one letter off from another NYC neighborhood | 61 |
| NYC home of Dali's "The Persistence of Memory" | 60 |
| Nutritional supplement touted as "health from the hive" | 65 |
| Nutritional beverage recently sued for allegedly causing priapism | 65 |
| Nursery-rhyme guy who ''takes a wife'' | 54 |
| Nursery rhyme line that finishes this puzzle's theme | 56 |
| Nursery rhyme character who "fell fast asleep" | 56 |
| Nursery rhyme boy who "stole a pig, and away he run" | 62 |
| Nurse Clara's act of kindness, as described by an Israeli? | 62 |
| Nuno Bettencourt "Flight of the Wounded Bumble___" | 60 |
| Numero di R's in "arrivederci" / Razzes | 53 |
| Numerical classification of the most used U-boats of World War II | 65 |
| Numerical classification of some World War II U-boats | 53 |
| Number worn by Pelé, Diego Maradona, and Zinedine Zidane | 59 |
| Number whose name inspired the name of a tech company | 53 |
| Number Tom Petty album "Long After Dark" was | 54 |
| Number that's physically impossible to write out in standard form | 69 |
| Number that might be used when counting backward from 100? | 58 |
| Number signifying "the end" on a wire story | 53 |
| Number pointed to by the shortest shadow on a sundial | 53 |
| Number of studio albums "Round Room" was for Phish | 60 |
| Number of sequels to the original "Planet of the Apes" | 64 |
| Number of seasons "Arrested Development" lasted | 57 |
| Number of points scored by Seattle in their only Super Bowl | 59 |
| Number of points on the Canadian flag's maple leaf | 54 |
| Number of players on "La Ruota Della Fortuna" | 55 |
| Number of one-voweled, seven-letter words in this puzzle | 56 |
| Number of letters in the shortest answer in this puzzle | 55 |
| Number of Electoral Votes won by Ralph Nader in 2000 | 52 |
| Number of clues in this puzzle that contain factual inaccuracies | 64 |
| Number of African countries with español as an official language | 67 |
| Number of "Wonders" Fleetwood Mac sang about | 54 |
| Number of "pipers piping" in a countdown carol | 56 |
| Number of "Little Sisters" Carly Simon sang of | 56 |
| Number of "jours" in "septembre" | 52 |
| Number inaugurated into this puzzle's theme answers | 55 |
| Number in "A Chorus Line" that's actually a number | 64 |
| Number at the bottom of the first page of a 1040 form: Abbr. | 60 |
| Number 1 on Entertainment Weekly's 1998 power list | 54 |
| Nuisance (whose initials spell "a kind of bread") | 59 |
| Nucky's brother, on "Boardwalk Empire" | 52 |
| Nu-metal band who did the 2002 song "Headstrong" | 58 |
| Nu metal band whose name is written with a backwards "R" | 66 |
| NSA counterpart north of the border, or several CBS spinoffs | 60 |
| Now-banned pesticide that decimated the bald eagle population | 61 |
| Now I'm dating Count Dracula. Things are going well, but . . . | 66 |
| Now having the opportunity to bike across the country, say | 58 |
| Novus ___ seclorum (phrase on the back of a dollar bill) | 56 |
| Novelty gifts that show off the wearer's nonexistent personality | 68 |
| Novelty gift with non-standard crossword designs, often | 55 |
| Novelist whose first wife had the same first name, curiously | 60 |
| Novelist who wrote "The Gravedigger's Daughter" | 61 |
| Novelist who was uncredited on "The Joys of Yiddish"? | 63 |
| Novelist who translated "Alice in Wonderland" into Russian | 68 |
| Novelist who died on the same day as John F. Kennedy | 52 |
| Novelist known for "locked-room" mysteries | 52 |
| Novelist Glyn who coined "It" as a euphemism | 54 |
| Novel with the character Serjeant Buzfuz, with "The" | 62 |
| Novel with the chapter "Farming in Polynesia" | 55 |
| Novel with a chapter called "Tahiti As It Is" | 55 |
| Novel whose working title was "The Summer of the Shark" | 65 |
| Novel whose last line is "I never knew who my father was" | 67 |
| Novel whose first sentence is "I am Ishmael" | 54 |
| Novel title character with a "brief, wondrous life" | 61 |
| Novel title character called "My sin, my soul" | 56 |
| Novel that strongly influenced the Robin Hood legend | 52 |
| Novel that opens "I am Ishmael," with "The" | 63 |
| Novel that inspired "The Six Million Dollar Man" | 58 |
| Novel that begins "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan ..." | 62 |
| Novel subtitled "A Peep at Polynesian Life" | 53 |
| Novel republished to commemorate its 2012 centennial | 52 |
| Novel originally published under the pseudonymous byline Currer Bell | 68 |
| Novel on which the film "Precious" is based | 53 |
| Novel for which the author declined the Pulitzer Prize | 54 |
| Novel followed up by "The Boyhood of Christ" | 54 |
| Novel dedicated to William Makepeace Thackeray in the second edition | 68 |
| Novel about the seriousness of a weather phenomenon? | 52 |
| Novel about the life of Gauguin, with "The" | 53 |
| Novel about getting English actor Michael to shut up? | 53 |
| Novel about a kid who looks just like Orville Redenbacher? | 58 |
| Novel about "lost generation" lives, with "The" | 67 |
| Nova Scotia's Lake ___, named for an Indian tribe | 53 |
| Nova Scotia county, or Island in Northumberland Strait | 54 |
| Notre Dame linebacker who was catfished during the 2012 season | 62 |
| Notre Dame linebacker caught up in a dead-girlfriend hoax | 57 |
| Notorious 1980 Boston Marathon "winner" Rosie | 55 |
| Notion of which children must eventually be disabused | 53 |
| Notice "All Quiet on the Western Front" sitting on a shelf? | 69 |
| Noteworthy watcher of "Our American Cousin," 4/14/1865 | 64 |
| Noted wife in Massachusetts's Plymouth Colony of Pilgrims | 61 |
| Noted talker whose name in reverse is a noted nontalker | 55 |
| Noted portrait subject of Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun | 55 |
| Noted philosopher (the basis for three anagrams in this puzzle) | 63 |
| Noted performer of "The Star-Spangled Banner" | 55 |
| Noted novel in the guise of a posthumously published memoir | 59 |
| Noted Iraq war critic who recently visited the White House | 58 |
| Noted German sculptor–wood carver: c.1440–1533 | 60 |