| Nash's "ill wind that nobody blows good" | 54 |
| Native of the largest of the central Ryukyu Islands | 54 |
| Neil Diamond/Waylon Jennings "___ Good Love" | 54 |
| NBA All-Star nicknamed "The Big Baryshnikov" | 54 |
| New York city home to the National Soccer Hall of Fame | 54 |
| Number 1 on Entertainment Weekly's 1998 power list | 54 |
| Nickname for a Boston skyscraper, with "The" | 54 |
| Nicole's ''Cold Mountain'' co-star | 54 |
| NBAer Artest who changed his name to Metta World Peace | 54 |
| Ned who won the Pulitzer for his "Air Music" | 54 |
| Nightspot where you can't be too big or too small? | 54 |
| Necessary sense for a driver (with an up-front charge) | 54 |
| New Orleans bluesman in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | 54 |
| New York City transport from the Bronx to Coney Island | 54 |
| Name shared by two brothers in the Hockey Hall of Fame | 54 |
| NASA's response to "How's business?" | 54 |
| Nighttime movie with Doris Day? (with "The") | 54 |
| Nova Scotia county, or Island in Northumberland Strait | 54 |
| NFL running back who forfeited his 2005 Heisman Trophy | 54 |
| Nation within a nation, casually, with "the" | 54 |
| Number of "Wonders" Fleetwood Mac sang about | 54 |
| Name of a nursery rhyme family with cholesterol issues | 54 |
| New York City nickname ... and this puzzle's title | 54 |
| Novel whose first sentence is "I am Ishmael" | 54 |
| Name on Rolling Stone's "Immortals" list | 54 |
| Not counting fas and las, word after "holly" | 54 |
| Neighborhood at the New York end of the Holland Tunnel | 54 |
| Nation whose flag is a yellow star on a red background | 54 |
| Note on a cal. to see the nutritionist? (presentation) | 54 |
| New Wave band with "Senses Working Overtime" | 54 |
| Netizen who might hear "You've got mail!" | 55 |
| NBA player Anthony Davis's nickname, with the" | 55 |
| National park whose name means "the high one" | 55 |
| National Inventors' Day is observed on his birthday | 55 |
| Ngaio Marsh's ''______ a Murderer'' | 55 |
| Northern Ireland river that shares its name with a bird | 55 |
| Noted performer of "The Star-Spangled Banner" | 55 |
| Nickname of "Celebration" bassist Robert Bell | 55 |
| Noted portrait subject of Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun | 55 |
| New York tickertape honorees, 1962, '69 and '86 | 55 |
| Neil Diamond "The ___ Album: As Time Goes By" | 55 |
| Not the best thing to have at the end of one's rope | 55 |
| Novel with the chapter "Farming in Polynesia" | 55 |
| Novel with a chapter called "Tahiti As It Is" | 55 |
| Noted talker whose name in reverse is a noted nontalker | 55 |
| Noble family name in medieval Italy shared by two popes | 55 |
| Nicole's "The Simple Life 2" travel buddy | 55 |
| Napoleon Dynamite's pal who becomes class president | 55 |
| Name derived from the German for "peppermint" | 55 |
| Name on the cover of "My Life as an Explorer" | 55 |
| Name for an animated beach bird voiced by actor Aiello? | 55 |
| New product line after Crayola's takeover of Delta? | 55 |
| New Hampshire city known for its annual motorcycle week | 55 |
| Naturalist who coined the term "invertebrate" | 55 |
| Noted conductor whose son played TV's Colonel Klink | 55 |
| Nondirectional transmitter of a usually constant signal | 55 |
| Notorious 1980 Boston Marathon "winner" Rosie | 55 |
| Nobelist who wrote ''Man and Superman'' | 55 |
| NBC sketch comedy show for Murray and Murphy, for short | 55 |
| Nick who played John Connor in "Terminator 3" | 55 |
| Ndamukong ___, 2010 N.F.L. Defensive Rookie of the Year | 55 |
| Nathan and Matthew's "Producers" director | 55 |
| New home of the toned-down "Sex and the City" | 55 |
| Newsman Baxter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" | 55 |
| Number of letters in the shortest answer in this puzzle | 55 |
| Novelty gift with non-standard crossword designs, often | 55 |
| Number of players on "La Ruota Della Fortuna" | 55 |
| New England sch. with campuses in Durham and Manchester | 55 |
| Network that once aired the "Cartoon Express" | 55 |
| Name hollered in the "Flintstones" theme song | 55 |
| Nickname of the dwarf planet Eris before September 2006 | 55 |
| Number inaugurated into this puzzle's theme answers | 55 |
| NBA player who holds the record for most All-Star votes | 55 |
| Nancy ___, first female member of the British Parliament | 56 |
| Nickname shared by Benazir Bhutto and Benjamin Netanyahu | 56 |
| Nursery rhyme character who "fell fast asleep" | 56 |
| Ned's new love interest, on "The Simpsons" | 56 |
| Nation that built the first commuter rail to the suburbs | 56 |
| Number of "pipers piping" in a countdown carol | 56 |
| Network that employed Rush Limbaugh for about two months | 56 |
| Nicole's co-star in ''Moulin Rouge'' | 56 |
| Nursery rhyme line that finishes this puzzle's theme | 56 |
| Nicholson role in ''Prizzi's Honor'' | 56 |
| Neil Young "Out of the blue and ___ the black" | 56 |
| Name on the sheet music of " 'S Wonderful" | 56 |
| Neeson who voiced Aslan in the "Narnia" movies | 56 |
| Novel title character called "My sin, my soul" | 56 |
| Nobel Laureate portrayed in "A Beautiful Mind" | 56 |
| Native Arizonans who call themselves "Diné" | 56 |
| Name in several generations of New York Times publishers | 56 |
| Novus ___ seclorum (phrase on the back of a dollar bill) | 56 |
| NBA stars Steve Nash and Chris Paul, positionally: Abbr. | 56 |
| Name of one of the three mascots of the Baltimore Ravens | 56 |
| Newspaper with hardly the highest journalistic standards | 56 |
| New product line after USPS's takeover of Firestone? | 56 |
| New York city that's home to Playland amusement park | 56 |
| Nasser's successor [SEE NOTE ABOVE FOR INSTRUCTIONS] | 56 |
| NFL owner who moved the Oakland Raiders to L.A. and back | 56 |
| Nelson who wrote "The Man With the Golden Arm" | 56 |
| North Carolina city where the Biltmore Estate is located | 56 |