| Nicholson role in "Chinatown" | 39 |
| Natl. Merit Scholarship qualifying exam | 39 |
| Name on a sign outside a house for sale | 39 |
| Nobelist who proposed a League of Peace | 39 |
| Nellie ___, first female state governor | 39 |
| New York city where Ogden Nash was born | 39 |
| Neil Diamond "I Am ... I ___" | 39 |
| Nora Ephron's "Crazy ___" | 39 |
| No different from, with "the" | 39 |
| Novel that features the language Nadsat | 39 |
| Name meaning "highly praised" | 39 |
| Name after which the New World is named | 39 |
| Native tongue of R&B singer Rihanna | 39 |
| Noggin with a sweat absorber around it? | 39 |
| Not the most comfortable place to sleep | 39 |
| Nominal promotion of a military officer | 39 |
| New Brunswick town and British namesake | 39 |
| Next to a baby's clothing protector | 39 |
| Nature lover's vacation destination | 39 |
| Neat, practical types, so it's said | 39 |
| November through April, to vacationers? | 39 |
| Notable 1900s anti-alcohol demonstrator | 39 |
| Noted Tuskegee University agriculturist | 39 |
| NYC club that sparked the punk movement | 39 |
| Nicholas I's favorite classic song? | 39 |
| Nietzsche's "The ___ Day" | 39 |
| N.F.L. coach who was undefeated in 1972 | 39 |
| Nine plays about university boredom (5) | 39 |
| Name of eight post-Norman English kings | 39 |
| Nicole of "Charles In Charge" | 39 |
| N.J. hardcore punk/rappers ___ Concrete | 39 |
| Nanette ___, Sid Caesar's TV costar | 39 |
| NFL team coached by June Jones, 1994-96 | 39 |
| Nick who won six major golf tournaments | 39 |
| Norwegian prince, in "Hamlet" | 39 |
| N.Y. Giant great, now a TV sportscaster | 39 |
| News, to Sun city editor John B. Bogart | 39 |
| Narrator of "Treasure Island" | 39 |
| Nickname for Mozart's last symphony | 39 |
| Nevin's "Mighty ___ Rose" | 39 |
| Nickname in James Fenimore Cooper tales | 39 |
| Natural ingredient in printer's ink | 39 |
| Namesake of the NFL championship trophy | 39 |
| Nickname of a Puerto Rican boxing champ | 39 |
| Numbers named for an Austrian physicist | 39 |
| Newspaper column displaying staff names | 39 |
| Nicks and Buckingham bandmate Christine | 39 |
| Nursery rhyme fixture's protrusion? | 39 |
| Noted Danish novelist: 1869–1954 | 39 |
| New Year's Eve horns, rattles, etc. | 39 |
| Nadya Suleman, mother of 14, familiarly | 39 |
| Ninja-like, and this puzzle's theme | 39 |
| National Historic Landmark in Manhattan | 39 |
| North American marsupials, colloquially | 39 |
| New York/New Jersey's ___ Mountains | 39 |
| Not in its original form, as an article | 39 |
| Nonsense spouted on the cowboy circuit? | 39 |
| N.B.A. player with the Sacramento Kings | 39 |
| Northern California newspaper, slangily | 39 |
| Noted Assyrian king mentioned in Isaiah | 39 |
| North American singers with raspy notes | 39 |
| Northwestern airport serving two cities | 39 |
| Neil who wrote "Stupid Cupid" | 39 |
| Noted children's "doctor" | 39 |
| Nonsense syllables in a 1965 song title | 39 |
| Nickname of basketball's O'Neal | 39 |
| Network that shows only Poitier movies? | 39 |
| New York college founded by Franciscans | 39 |
| Necessity on a cross-country train trip | 39 |
| Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown, e.g. | 39 |
| New England senator's winter tools? | 39 |
| Nickname of Dirk DeJong in a 1924 novel | 39 |
| Note that's hit when an album bombs | 39 |
| Notice folks quarreling about a skewer? | 39 |
| Native American who helped the Pilgrims | 39 |
| Nixon's first secretary of Commerce | 39 |
| NL team with the most World Series wins | 39 |
| New Jersey casino, with "The" | 39 |
| New Mexico county that borders Colorado | 39 |
| Nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet | 39 |
| Nirvana's is "Pennyroyal" | 39 |
| New York "find" of 10/16/1869 | 39 |
| Nickname for this puzzle's subjects | 39 |
| Novel about Chinese peasants' lives | 39 |
| Nickname of baseball's Leo Durocher | 39 |
| Name of a news special on labor policy? | 39 |
| New Orleans daily, with "The" | 39 |
| Not 'for here,' in a restaurant | 39 |
| Native Americans' forced relocation | 39 |
| Number of stripes on the flag of Italia | 39 |
| Number of coins in the Fontana di Trevi | 39 |
| Number of coins in la Fontana di Trevi? | 39 |
| News that may be illustrated by a graph | 39 |
| Natural history museum display, perhaps | 39 |
| Nation consisting of nine coral islands | 39 |
| New York gothic metal band ___ Negative | 39 |
| Noted wearer of a hoodie and sunglasses | 39 |
| Not up or down, as a stock price: Abbr. | 39 |
| Not treated with preservatives, as meat | 39 |
| Navy computer programmer's project? | 39 |