| Natalie of the Dixie Chicks | 27 |
| North Dakota native or city | 27 |
| Neiman's retail partner | 27 |
| Napoleon's cheval blanc | 27 |
| Name in Democratic politics | 27 |
| Noted nursery rhyme critter | 27 |
| Newspapers' staff lists | 27 |
| Novelist Lucy -- Montgomery | 27 |
| Native of a Cyclades island | 27 |
| Nebraska, the Dakotas, etc. | 27 |
| Not a compact or luxury car | 27 |
| Nova Scotia's ___ Basin | 27 |
| Nobelist for Medicine: 1934 | 27 |
| Numismatists' interests | 27 |
| Nobody else's business? | 27 |
| N.Y. Yankee: 1954–62 | 27 |
| Notice to employees, part 4 | 27 |
| Nickname for Reggie Jackson | 27 |
| Notorious Australian outlaw | 27 |
| Nearby backup for the NYPD? | 27 |
| Negatives from Nikita: var. | 27 |
| Not in the sphere of ethics | 27 |
| Necessity in many passwords | 27 |
| Navigators' instruments | 27 |
| Nadya Suleman, in headlines | 27 |
| Not adhering to the subject | 27 |
| Ninth-cent. Gallic language | 27 |
| Norwegian king of A.D. 1000 | 27 |
| Nickname for Frank Sinatra? | 27 |
| Numismatist's residence | 27 |
| New York City tour provider | 27 |
| Noted Italian film director | 27 |
| National park in Washington | 27 |
| Nathan Hale's sacrifice | 27 |
| Not-so-fancy places to stay | 27 |
| Number on the $5 Gold Eagle | 27 |
| No right ___ (traffic sign) | 27 |
| Not down a break, in tennis | 27 |
| Narrow architectural fillet | 27 |
| Number the sheets in a book | 27 |
| Native of old German Empire | 27 |
| Norman Vincent's family | 27 |
| Nice shoes for a wrongdoer? | 27 |
| Not doing much disciplining | 27 |
| Noted Dixieland clarinetist | 27 |
| Nice work if you can get it | 27 |
| No. preceder on an envelope | 27 |
| New York's finest, e.g. | 27 |
| Nurse ___ (medical workers) | 27 |
| Noted peripatetic conductor | 27 |
| Norman Bates' way home? | 27 |
| Newspapers read by royalty? | 27 |
| Nickname for Leona Helmsley | 27 |
| Nadal of tennis, familiarly | 27 |
| Number in an Amtrak report? | 27 |
| Nuclear-fission apparatuses | 27 |
| Not the most refined fellow | 27 |
| Namesakes of a literary fox | 27 |
| New Year's self-promise | 27 |
| Networks conveying impulses | 27 |
| Ngaio Marsh's detective | 27 |
| NFL commissioner since 2006 | 27 |
| North Dakota town or county | 27 |
| Name on a plastic container | 27 |
| Never touch, mathematically | 27 |
| Nautical rigging clearance? | 27 |
| Name of three lakes in N.Y. | 27 |
| NPR news commentator Daniel | 27 |
| News commentator Daniel ___ | 27 |
| Narrow one's brows (at) | 27 |
| Not afraid to mix things up | 27 |
| Navy builder's nickname | 27 |
| N.Y.S.E. and Amex regulator | 27 |
| Not as good as element #10? | 27 |
| Note next to a red F, maybe | 27 |
| Nobelist Lagerlöf et al. | 27 |
| Next-to-last tourney rounds | 27 |
| Namesakes of Wagner heroine | 27 |
| Native soldier of old India | 27 |
| Nasal partition: Comb. form | 27 |
| Name for a king or a queen? | 27 |
| Never needing to work again | 27 |
| Number for hills or wonders | 27 |
| Number in "Lucia" | 27 |
| Nabokov's poet John ___ | 27 |
| Number on a bag of walnuts? | 27 |
| Natural necklace components | 27 |
| Nagging, bad-tempered women | 27 |
| N.F.L. perfect-season coach | 27 |
| Not making eye contact, say | 27 |
| NFL Hall of Fame QB Luckman | 27 |
| Not a good way to buy a car | 27 |
| Nobelist Isaac Bashevis ___ | 27 |
| Newspaper route hour, maybe | 27 |
| NBAer's height, perhaps | 27 |
| Narrow shaft in a mountain? | 27 |
| Neatnik's bête noire | 27 |
| Not stay in the bucket, say | 27 |
| Not get carried evenly, say | 27 |
| Nootropics, more familiarly | 27 |