| Noted "positive thinker" | 34 |
| Nutcracker's target, sometimes | 34 |
| National Gallery architect I.M. __ | 34 |
| Need for a close race in the maze? | 34 |
| Name of seven of the last 15 popes | 34 |
| Nobel Prize physicist from Germany | 34 |
| New Orleans sandwiches, informally | 34 |
| Never hurts to be friendly to them | 34 |
| Nights for awkward sex, frequently | 34 |
| N.F.L., e.g., with "the" | 34 |
| Norma ___ Webster (union activist) | 34 |
| Name of 11 ancient Egyptian rulers | 34 |
| Ninja Turtle mentor Splinter, e.g. | 34 |
| New York's former ___ Building | 34 |
| Neckwear for SpongeBob SquarePants | 34 |
| Noted Jesuit high school in N.Y.C. | 34 |
| Name that means "reborn" | 34 |
| National Automobile Museum setting | 34 |
| Noted journalist, born in Scotland | 34 |
| National Cartoonists Society award | 34 |
| Not go by one's own locomotion | 34 |
| Not back down from, as a challenge | 34 |
| Name in crackers or accommodations | 34 |
| Neil Diamond "Glory ___" | 34 |
| None too steady, as a relationship | 34 |
| Name in a landmark 1973 court case | 34 |
| Needlepointing football star Grier | 34 |
| Noir's counterpart in roulette | 34 |
| Navigation device's suggestion | 34 |
| Nelson Mandela's nation: Abbr. | 34 |
| Nonexistent for starving musicians | 34 |
| Not the best composer in the world | 34 |
| Neill of "Jurassic Park" | 34 |
| Name seen twice on the Declaration | 34 |
| Neptune moon discovered in '02 | 34 |
| Name meanning "princess" | 34 |
| No Doubt "Return of ___" | 34 |
| Not give ___ (display disinterest) | 34 |
| New Mexico's largest newspaper | 34 |
| Not at all ready to be counted out | 34 |
| Name of two Bourbon kings of Spain | 34 |
| Not interested in matters of state | 34 |
| Novel about the life of a pointer? | 34 |
| Noted interviewer's pet sheep? | 34 |
| Negative first impression, perhaps | 34 |
| Noted German-American cabinetmaker | 34 |
| North Carolina women's college | 34 |
| Nation whose flag depicts a dragon | 34 |
| Nickname for Georgia's capital | 34 |
| Nicholson role in "Wolf" | 34 |
| NCAA college football expert picks | 34 |
| National park with the Pink Cliffs | 34 |
| Ned Buntline gave him his nickname | 34 |
| Nickname for a so-so Navy officer? | 34 |
| New Year's welcome, frequently | 34 |
| Nucleus of Spain's New Granada | 34 |
| New York and Hawaii, election-wise | 34 |
| Narcissus's admirer and others | 34 |
| Northwestern University's city | 34 |
| Nontaped malice on TV (palindrome) | 34 |
| New Zealand lamb-exporting method? | 34 |
| National anthem follower, at times | 34 |
| Not just fully a-----, but ___ ___ | 34 |
| Nearly useless newspaper, in slang | 34 |
| Nuisance for a convertible driver? | 34 |
| Noted world traveler and namesakes | 34 |
| Neighbor of McGuire Air Force Base | 34 |
| Neck ruff in Shakespeare's day | 34 |
| Near-miss Stanley Kubrick classic? | 34 |
| New Brunswick Canadian Forces Base | 34 |
| Name of an archipelago, or a novel | 34 |
| Namesakes of a famous equestrienne | 34 |
| Neighbor of Suriname and Venezuela | 34 |
| Nomads in a long John Hodgman list | 34 |
| Newspaper subscriber's service | 34 |
| Newsworthy 1950s trial, informally | 34 |
| Novelist Evan with a small smooch? | 34 |
| Namesakes of pianist von Alpenheim | 34 |
| Never-forgotten four-letter words? | 34 |
| Notwithstanding, with 'of' | 34 |
| Norwegian import in the dairy case | 34 |
| National Theatre of Japan offering | 34 |
| Nice sound of Bach composition (5) | 34 |
| National Economic Counsel director | 34 |
| Neither clergyman nor professional | 34 |
| Notorious Prohibition-era gangster | 34 |
| No. 5 on the list (by Victor Hugo) | 34 |
| Not sharply defined, as a PC image | 34 |
| Namesakes of a great Italian tenor | 34 |
| National symbol with eleven points | 34 |
| Navratilova/impair actress Louise? | 34 |
| National Gallery of Art benefactor | 34 |
| New York Times headline of 7/21/69 | 34 |
| National anti-gun violence network | 34 |
| Neckwear for a full baseball team? | 34 |
| Nix, uh uh, not on your life, etc. | 34 |
| Nothing much, to game show emcees? | 34 |
| Nineteenth-cent. U. S. utopianists | 34 |
| Numbers before or after each break | 34 |
| Name of two ancient Egyptian kings | 34 |