| National Spelling Bee airer |
27 |
| Not so much |
11 |
| Nirvana's Krist Novoselic, e.g. |
31 |
| Nordic wonder |
13 |
| Natives call it Mongibello |
26 |
| New Year's event in Times Square |
32 |
| Not suitable as food |
20 |
| Natural ingredient in moisturizers |
34 |
| New Order song they're not proud of? |
36 |
| Name of three presidents |
24 |
| Nailed. Dead. ___" Impending Doom album |
39 |
| Nile river area |
15 |
| Noted island peak |
17 |
| Nailed, as a test |
17 |
| Networking can net them |
23 |
| Not be able to say "say," say |
29 |
| Noisy quarrel |
13 |
| Not poisonous |
13 |
| Not as bumpy |
12 |
| Noted Bauhaus teacher |
21 |
| Newlywed's acquisition |
22 |
| Navy and coffee |
15 |
| Not al dente |
12 |
| Nation on the Pacific |
21 |
| Name in old radio shows |
23 |
| Natalie in "West Side Story |
27 |
| Negotiator's goal |
17 |
| Not recently cleaned |
20 |
| Not a close game |
16 |
| Nest egg at an S&L |
18 |
| Nice sea |
8 |
| Name invoked in many a curse |
28 |
| Network news stars |
18 |
| Neither's mate. |
15 |
| No old hat (anag) — chisel, for example |
41 |
| Necessity at a golf club |
24 |
| NASA outfit |
11 |
| Nemo's home |
11 |
| Not chronic, as illness |
23 |
| Nervous" sort |
13 |
| Needing a doctor's care |
23 |
| N.Y.C.'s Third or Fifth |
23 |
| New ballet by Valerie Bettis. |
29 |
| Now-banned apple orchard spray |
30 |
| No longer pristine |
18 |
| Not merely interested |
21 |
| Narrative rendering |
19 |
| Not just bad |
12 |
| Nay antithesis |
14 |
| N.Y.C. museum |
13 |
| Not exactly tidy |
16 |
| Novelist Gardner |
16 |
| Neighbor of Gr. |
15 |
| Noted star followers |
20 |
| Nike alternative |
16 |
| Neil Armstrong's landing site |
29 |
| Net minder |
10 |
| Nine, in Navarra |
16 |
| Not quite a circle |
18 |
| New York, Delaware, etc. |
24 |
| Nasty mutt |
10 |
| Neckwear of a sort |
18 |
| Nice nicety |
11 |
| Not flowing |
11 |
| No difference |
13 |
| Nine of diamonds, e.g. |
22 |
| Not ha-ha? |
10 |
| Now this is living! |
19 |
| Nordic type |
11 |
| Name, as a successor |
20 |
| Negative of a sort |
18 |
| Neither scrawny nor beefy |
25 |
| Numbers after the decimal point |
31 |
| Navigation aids |
15 |
| NFL knee injury letters |
23 |
| New _____ , British Columbia |
30 |
| New element whose name will be ratified in January, 2010, and whose symbol appears in the middle of this puzzle's theme answers |
127 |
| Neon and nitrogen |
17 |
| Namath and co. |
14 |
| Nastygrams |
10 |
| No, to Klaus |
12 |
| Newborns' health measures |
25 |
| Nursery-tub fillers |
19 |
| News spreader of a sort |
23 |
| Neighbor of NY |
14 |
| NBA legend, familiarly |
22 |
| Not as wet |
10 |
| Neth. neighbor |
14 |
| Not coming up short |
19 |
| NBC competitor |
14 |
| Name on a Canadian gas pump |
27 |
| Noggin cover |
12 |
| Number in icing |
15 |
| Noted suffragist leader |
23 |
| Nothing — certainly not a hero! |
33 |
| New Deal doggie |
15 |
| No-no for a vegan |
17 |
| Nader is his advocate |
21 |
| Name above Theda on a Silent Screen Star stamp sheet |
52 |
| Not all that exciting |
21 |