| African country whose flag is nearly identical to Romania's |
| Marvel Comics superhero wielding a nearly indestructible shield |
| Very nearly |
| Genetically identical copies |
| Almost identical |
| Friend in war, among nearly 1000, gives rousing cry (7) |
| A new one is nearly invisible |
| Defunct supermarket chain that once had nearly 16,000 stores |
| Nearly shut |
| Cake known for its nearly perfect purity |
| A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a ___ forever" (Garrison Keillor) |
| Animal with the longest gestation, at nearly two years |
| Nearly |
| What Galileo was nearly convicted of |
| Abraham nearly sacrificed him |
| Nearly weightless |
| Alaska's is nearly 600,000 square miles |
| ___ and Jaron (identical-twins pop duo) |
| AmeriCorps group of nearly a million |
| Nearly overflowed (with) |
| Sport that's nearly pointless |
| Involving nearly every aspect of a person |
| Song with the line "But when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine |
| Nearly none, in slang |
| Animal that gives birth to identical quadruplets |
| Rectangular array that's identical when its rows and columns are transposed, as this puzzle's grid |
| Related patrilinearly |
| Nearly shot |
| Nearly overflowing |
| Nearly unsolvable |