| It includes a vest ... and what can be found in each set of circles in the long answers | 87 |
| Its name is derived from Provençal words for "garlic" and "oil" | 86 |
| Informal chat, and based on the starts of the starred answers, this puzzle's title | 86 |
| Item of clothing named for the commander in chief who ordered the action of 10/25/1854 | 86 |
| It lost out to "Leonard Part 6" for the 1987 Razzie Award for Worst Picture | 85 |
| In normal seasons, only month when the NBA, MLB, NHL and NFL all have scheduled games | 85 |
| Ingredient 1/8 cup of which is used in a bath at Pennsylvania's Hotel Hershey Spa | 85 |
| In poetry, when she passed, "it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music" | 85 |
| Invention by tailor Franz Reichelt in which he fell to his death (as seen on YouTube) | 85 |
| Italian word that becomes English after deleting its third, fourth, and fifth letters | 85 |
| Irving Berlin standard that begins "Gone is the romance that was so divine" | 85 |
| Its first notable orchestral use was in Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre" | 85 |
| Its episode titles have included "Got Murder?" and "You Kill Me" | 84 |
| Image in the final scene of Michelangelo Antonioni's "L'Avventura" | 84 |
| Instrument Paul McCartney played on Ringo Starr's "You're Sixteen" | 84 |
| Italian city where Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" takes place | 84 |
| In modern-day slang, last night out with the guys just before the first baby arrives | 84 |
| In modern lingo, an urban male who devotes much time to his appearance and lifestyle | 84 |
| In his first speech, Iggy quoted a computer-monitor tech manual to establish the ... | 84 |
| In the first line of a novel, he wrote, "and the clocks were striking 13" | 83 |
| Inauguration Night protest activity for vandalizing foes of the new administration? | 83 |
| It's usually set at lower amounts in the first years of a player's contract | 83 |
| Its flag consists of a crimson St. Andrew's cross on a white background: Abbr. | 82 |
| It's listed as "(annoyed grunt)" in "The Simpsons" scripts | 82 |
| Its flag states "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain" | 82 |
| Its national anthem begins "Upwards on the horizon rose the Eastern Sun" | 82 |
| Island called "The Keystone of the Pacific" by the Department of Defense | 82 |
| In a poem, it "perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door" | 82 |
| Item deemed by a hi-tech company president in 1977 to be unreasonable for home use | 82 |
| Impromptu session with banjo player Scruggs, pianist Hines, and rapper Sweatshirt? | 82 |
| Inventor and oft-cited eponym for a phrase meaning "the genuine article" | 82 |
| If one were to ___, one would learn that their address is 605 5th St., Seattle, WA | 82 |
| Its opening voice-over ended "to boldly go where no man has gone before" | 82 |
| In the United States, it began with the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists | 82 |
| It was "boil'd in broo'," in the ballad "Lord Randal" | 81 |
| It has ''arguments'' and ''logic games'' sections | 81 |
| Instrument played on the 2005 White Stripes album "Get Behind Me Satan" | 81 |
| It was once advertised as "Your favorite drink in your favorite flavor" | 81 |
| Invention modernized by William Bullock that mangled his leg and led to his death | 81 |
| Individual string cheese: "Safety first! Open with hands, not teeth"... | 81 |
| Item in the hardware department with a "+" or "-" on its head | 81 |
| It's played to fool people into thinking that someone's talking in a room | 81 |
| Items that Dr. Seuss's Once-ler knitted from the silk tufts of Truffula Trees | 81 |
| Indian author ___ Mehta, a staff writer for The New Yorker for more than 30 years | 81 |
| It might say "What part of 'cookie' don't you understand?" | 80 |
| In Search Of: Central European guy who swings both ways; hoping to receive a ___ | 80 |
| International Tennis Hall of Famer who won consecutive US Opens in 1997 and 1998 | 80 |
| Infamous 1983 Royals/Yankees contest where a George Brett home run was nullified | 80 |
| Item that Dr. Seuss's Once-ler knitted from the silk tufts of Truffula trees | 80 |
| Ibuprofen: "Line up arrows on cap and bottle. Push cap with thumbs"... | 80 |
| It's "no longer current in natural colloquial speech," per the OED | 80 |
| It's soft, strong, and demonstrated by this puzzle's four theme answers | 79 |
| IX ^ (I/II) ...is there a Roman numeral for one-half that I'm not aware of? | 79 |
| Its motto is "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain" | 79 |
| It forms a superhero when added to the start of the answer to each starred clue | 79 |
| If they're dropping by your house, don't stick your head out the window | 79 |
| Instrument famously played by Bill Clinton on "The Arsenio Hall Show" | 79 |
| Impetuously ... or what can go on each part of the answer to each starred clue? | 79 |
| Internet writing system that popularized "pwn3d" and "n00b" | 79 |
| In computer science, a characterization of every possible solution to a problem | 79 |
| Internationally popular comic book character created by Belgian artist Hergé | 79 |
| It "gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere": Glenn Turner | 79 |
| Interplanetary dictator in Scientology who we're not supposed to talk about | 79 |
| Instantly ... or how this puzzle's other three longest answers came about? | 78 |
| Intuitively reasonable but rarely actually used name for an online publication | 78 |
| It's along the bus route of ''Canada's Walk of Fame''? | 78 |
| Item: 1937 memoir. Problem: Sent to us by wrong supplier (text is in Swahili). | 78 |
| In other words, mom or dad will be out at midnight searching for an open store | 78 |
| It's depicted by a cello melody in "The Carnival of the Animals" | 78 |
| In song, "Once you pass its borders, you can ne'er return again" | 78 |
| It may be charged by airport shuttle services if you're late from a flight | 78 |
| Item of clothing named for the major general who led the action of 10/25/1854 | 77 |
| Iowa city where Grant Wood's "American Gothic" house is located | 77 |
| It might include the adverbs "forthwith" and "heretofore" | 77 |
| It facetiously calls its regular writers "the usual gang of idiots" | 77 |
| In a sauce of tomatoes, mushrooms, shredded meat, truffles, and grated cheese | 77 |
| In 1971, ___ became president of a) Argentina; b) Cuba c) Haiti; d) Venezuela | 77 |
| It "is no problem. You just have to live long enough": Groucho Marx | 77 |
| Item: 1966 true-crime work. Problem: Pages soaked with viscous red substance. | 77 |
| Impressionist whom Mel Blanc labeled "The Man of a Thousand Voices" | 77 |
| Inappropriate Neil Diamond single "Girl, You'll Be a Woman ___" | 77 |
| Indonesian island separated from the Malay Peninsula by the Strait of Malacca | 77 |
| Its women's basketball team holds the consecutive victories record(abbr.) | 77 |
| If one were to ___, one would see a bunch of social networking parody videos | 77 |
| Instrument that hints at the missing parts of certain answers in this puzzle | 76 |
| It's featured in the Marx Brothers' "A Night at the Opera" | 76 |
| It publishes an annual "20 Dumbest People, Events and Things" list | 76 |
| Institution at which this puzzleÂ’s honoree earned a Ph.D. in mathematics | 76 |
| Its unique bites are referred to as "breakfast, lunch, and dinner" | 76 |
| Item in a sealed box, in a famous thought experiment by Erwin Schrödinger | 76 |
| It comes from the Japanese words for "slice" and "broil" | 76 |
| It's good for "absolutely nothing," according to a 1970 #1 hit | 76 |
| Information superhighway whose abbreviation inspired this puzzle's theme | 76 |
| Internet giant that recently fought Microsoft's hostile takeover attempt | 76 |
| Item for Gil Grissom's team--one begins the answer to each starred clue | 75 |
| Ingrid's Oscar-winning role in "Murder on the Orient Express" | 75 |
| It's found in dairy products, poultry, fish, lean meats, nuts, and eggs | 75 |
| It's been replaced on food labels by the Reference Daily Intake (abbr.) | 75 |
| Internet news source that was the first to break the Clinton/Lewinsky story | 75 |
| It states that a planet's orbit is an ellipse with the Sun at one focus | 75 |