| Not passive |
| A Prairie Home Companion" director; "it" game; performer Marilyn; PC key; ear part; mama's boy; grown boy; "Notes On 'Camp'" essayist; blue shade |
| Talladega" singer who goes by his middle name, not first name (Kenneth): 2 wds. |
| The "me" in "nothing can stop me now," in a 1962 #1 hit |
| Noted potters |
| Longtime Notre Dame coach Parseghian |
| Quick tennis point |
| Organization whose 2008 endorsement John McCain did not reciprocate |
| Intense, as competition |
| Two-dimensional extent. |
| Good-for-nothing |
| Maximum number of party attendees, perhaps |
| Not too often |
| 1984 top ten Duran Duran hit |
| Not quite tight |
| Unknot |
| First word across in the first-ever crossword (1913) and the first of a dozen appearances of the word in this puzzle's grid, written word search-style (left, right, down, and diagonally) ... Can you f |
| Not give in to a timepiece that swings at you? |
| Netherlands nosebag contents? |
| Prince's attendant |
| Questions idiot describing kindergarten (4) |
| Not act subtly |
| Actress Taylor of "The Notorious Bettie Page |
| Laboratory utensils |
| Held tenderly |
| Tennis champion Martina |
| Fasten |
| A Johnny One-Note |
| Creative notion |
| ___ stage (Freudian notion) |