| Impromptu session with banjo player Scruggs, pianist Hines, and rapper Sweatshirt? | 82 |
| In "Macbeth," it starts with the line "Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd" | 97 |
| In "Penny Lane," what the banker never wears in the pouring rain | 74 |
| In 1798 France ordered Bonaparte to invade Egypt and take control of this | 73 |
| In 1971, ___ became president of a) Argentina; b) Cuba c) Haiti; d) Venezuela | 77 |
| In a "South Park" episode, what the entire cast of the remastered "The Empire Strikes Back" was replaced with | 129 |
| In a Kinks hit s/he "walked like a woman and talked like a man" | 73 |
| In a poem, it "perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door" | 82 |
| In a sauce of tomatoes, mushrooms, shredded meat, truffles, and grated cheese | 77 |
| In a Weird Al Yankovic song, he "looks like a Muppet, but he's wrinkled and green" | 96 |
| In an arranged swap, she guest-hosted "The Tonight Show" in 2003 on the same day Jay guest-hosted "The Today Show" | 134 |
| In computer science, a characterization of every possible solution to a problem | 79 |
| In his first speech, Iggy quoted a computer-monitor tech manual to establish the ... | 84 |
| In his first TV appearance, he played Scrooge in a 1962 animated special | 72 |
| In modern lingo, an urban male who devotes much time to his appearance and lifestyle | 84 |
| In modern-day slang, last night out with the guys just before the first baby arrives | 84 |
| In normal seasons, only month when the NBA, MLB, NHL and NFL all have scheduled games | 85 |
| In other words, mom or dad will be out at midnight searching for an open store | 78 |
| In poetry, when she passed, "it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music" | 85 |
| In response to declining sales, the photojournalism magazine launched a campaign to turn the short-term subscriber into a ___ | 125 |
| In Search Of: Central European guy who swings both ways; hoping to receive a ___ | 80 |
| In Search Of: Ladyfriend for a foreign exchange student in Yorkshire - where can I find my ___ ? | 96 |
| In Search Of: Southeast Asian boyfriend; maybe you can work out as my ___ | 73 |
| In song, "Once you pass its borders, you can ne'er return again" | 78 |
| In the end, though, the media portrayed the press conference as bland and amicable -- the latest in a series of ___ | 115 |
| In the first line of a novel, he wrote, "and the clocks were striking 13" | 83 |
| In the United States, it began with the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists | 82 |
| In verse, "His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!" | 73 |
| Inappropriate Neil Diamond single "Girl, You'll Be a Woman ___" | 77 |
| Inauguration Night protest activity for vandalizing foes of the new administration? | 83 |
| Indian author ___ Mehta, a staff writer for The New Yorker for more than 30 years | 81 |
| Indian leader whose 1947 inauguration speech was titled "A Tryst with Destiny" | 88 |
| Indian whose tribe's name means "lovers of sexual pleasure" | 73 |
| Indicted musician who said: "Osama Bin Laden is the only one who knows what I'm going through" | 108 |
| Indie band with the classic album "If You're Feeling Sinister" (with sword drawn) | 95 |
| Indie rock band that played the Velvet Underground in 1996's "I Shot Andy Warhol" | 95 |
| Indie rock band whose "The Suburbs" was the Grammys' 2010 Album of the Year | 89 |
| Individual string cheese: "Safety first! Open with hands, not teeth"... | 81 |
| Indonesian island separated from the Malay Peninsula by the Strait of Malacca | 77 |
| Infamous 1983 Royals/Yankees contest where a George Brett home run was nullified | 80 |
| Infielder Juan who won World Series rings with the White Sox in 2005 and the Giants in 2010 | 91 |
| Informal chat, and based on the starts of the starred answers, this puzzle's title | 86 |
| Information superhighway whose abbreviation inspired this puzzle's theme | 76 |
| Ingredient 1/8 cup of which is used in a bath at Pennsylvania's Hotel Hershey Spa | 85 |
| Ingredient served with fries and brown gravy in the Canadian dish poutine | 74 |
| Ingrid's Oscar-winning role in "Murder on the Orient Express" | 75 |
| Initialism for what was once known as "shell shock" and "combat fatigue" | 92 |
| Initials found inside Slytherin's locket at the end of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" | 109 |
| Insignificant guy (and #7 on the "Top Ten Words That Sound Romantic When Spoken By Barry White") | 106 |
| Insincere talk, and a hint to the starts of this puzzle's four other longest entries | 88 |
| Instantly ... or how this puzzle's other three longest answers came about? | 78 |
| Institution at which this puzzleÂ’s honoree earned a Ph.D. in mathematics | 76 |
| Instrument famously played by Bill Clinton on "The Arsenio Hall Show" | 79 |
| Instrument heard prominently midway through the Mamas & the Papas' "California Dreamin'" | 110 |
| Instrument on which Jake Shimabukuro can play "Bohemian Rhapsody" | 75 |
| Instrument Paul McCartney played on Ringo Starr's "You're Sixteen" | 84 |
| Instrument played on the 2005 White Stripes album "Get Behind Me Satan" | 81 |
| Instrument that hints at the missing parts of certain answers in this puzzle | 76 |
| Instruments featured in Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy" and the Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning" | 142 |
| Instruments in the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood" and "Within You Without You" | 97 |
| Insurance plan, before the "Mad Madam" from Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" showed up? | 112 |
| Interjection that's the last entry in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (it requires both blanks) | 108 |
| International Association for the Development of ___ (organization that oversees the sport of freediving) | 105 |
| International standardized measurement promotion that may get more attention next year, since it's held on 10/10/10 | 119 |
| International Tennis Hall of Famer who won consecutive US Opens in 1997 and 1998 | 80 |
| Internationally popular comic book character created by Belgian artist Hergé | 79 |
| Internet giant that recently fought Microsoft's hostile takeover attempt | 76 |
| Internet news source that was the first to break the Clinton/Lewinsky story | 75 |
| Internet writing system that popularized "pwn3d" and "n00b" | 79 |
| Interplanetary dictator in Scientology who we're not supposed to talk about | 79 |
| Interview show since 1947 ... and what this puzzle's starred answers do in two ways | 87 |
| Intrepid [Editor's note: This clue appears in heavier type (without the asterisks) in the print version of the puzzle. AcrossLite can't handle that, so just imaging that it's written in darker type.] | 211 |
| Intuitively reasonable but rarely actually used name for an online publication | 78 |
| Invention a British parliamentarian claimed in 1903 would not lead to a decline in riding horses | 96 |
| Invention by tailor Franz Reichelt in which he fell to his death (as seen on YouTube) | 85 |
| Invention modernized by William Bullock that mangled his leg and led to his death | 81 |
| Inventor and electricity pioneer (the coil named for him is twisted up in four answers) | 87 |
| Inventor and oft-cited eponym for a phrase meaning "the genuine article" | 82 |
| Inventor whose name is spelled out by the horizontal lines of special characters in this puzzle | 95 |
| Inviting danger ... the end of which can precede each half of the answer to each asterisked clue | 96 |
| Invoice for loofahs with "No-Spin Zone" printed on the handle? | 72 |
| Iowa city where Grant Wood's "American Gothic" house is located | 77 |
| Irish writer who said "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much" | 90 |
| Irish-born actor whose character in "Barbarella" inspired the band name Duran Duran | 93 |
| Irish-themed Vegas casino that features a tattoo parlor owned by Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil | 99 |
| Irving Berlin standard that begins "Gone is the romance that was so divine" | 85 |
| Island called "The Keystone of the Pacific" by the Department of Defense | 82 |
| Island known for having "the wettest spot on Earth" (450+" of rain per year) | 91 |
| Island nation that was the setting of a 2005 "Survivor" season | 72 |
| Isolated prison area (represented by this 4x4 corner) from which the solver must escape | 87 |
| Issue of a U.S. beauty magazine historic for being the first sent to post-Soviet Russia? | 88 |
| It "delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain," according to Shelley | 104 |
| It "enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time": Merton | 87 |
| It "gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere": Glenn Turner | 79 |
| It "is easy, and has infinite forms," according to Blaise Pascal | 74 |
| It "is no problem. You just have to live long enough": Groucho Marx | 77 |
| It "sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other," according to Aristotle Onassis | 123 |
| It answers the question "Do you know how fast you were going?" | 72 |
| It begins "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" | 88 |
| It begins: "It was the best of times . . . " (with "A") | 75 |