| It aired the first coast-to-coast Oscar telecast, 1953 | 54 |
| It's across the Missouri from Council Bluffs, Iowa | 54 |
| Inspiration for Lennon's ''Woman'' | 54 |
| It was called the "Ritz-Carlton of airlines" | 54 |
| Illinois birthplace of Richard Pryor and Betty Friedan | 54 |
| It carries the words ''Rey de Espana'' | 54 |
| I'd like you to meet the liaison to our vendors... | 54 |
| Its Web site has an "Improve Your Game" page | 54 |
| Invention credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori circa 1700 | 54 |
| It ends with something found four times in this puzzle | 54 |
| Inits. associated with the old theme park Heritage USA | 54 |
| Its nickname is "The Star City of the South" | 54 |
| It reportedly took him a month to solve his own puzzle | 54 |
| In Act I, it begins "Enter Ghost and Hamlet" | 54 |
| Insect known for “enslaving” a related species | 54 |
| It's often the second piece moved in a chess match | 54 |
| Italian appetizer, literally "little toasts" | 54 |
| If it's regular, each of its angles is 144 degrees | 54 |
| Instruction on preparing a tiny Thanksgiving side dish | 54 |
| Ill-fated Russian sub named after a city SSW of Moscow | 54 |
| Introduce a new line of accessories for skateboarders? | 54 |
| Implements for "writing" on computer screens | 54 |
| Italian town where Napoleon won a historic 1800 battle | 54 |
| Its coat of arms features a horseman spearing a dragon | 54 |
| Inappropriate for on-the-job viewing, in Web shorthand | 54 |
| In the area where "The Fantasticks" is a hit | 54 |
| In music, a full interval higher or lower than written | 54 |
| Italian artist with the largest painting in the Louvre | 54 |
| It has "amble" and "ramble" inside | 54 |
| Investigator who finds someone's birth mother, say | 54 |
| Influential jazz bandleader known as "Fatha" | 54 |
| Instrument heard on "Within You Without You" | 54 |
| Indian instruments popular with British Invasion bands | 54 |
| Ignoring the axiom that "hindsight is 20/20" | 54 |
| In comics, it's represented by a string of Z's | 54 |
| It makes "cent" sound like "scent" | 54 |
| It might read "Lose 20 pounds in 3 weeks!!!" | 54 |
| Its episode "The Menagerie" won a Hugo Award | 54 |
| Ingenue's elderly beau bespeckles Della's mug? | 54 |
| It made John Denver happy when it was on his shoulders | 54 |
| It had "well-kept acres," in a classic novel | 54 |
| Its clue reads "Unstable subatomic particle" | 54 |
| It last was celebrated in Vietnam on February 14, 2010 | 54 |
| It's frequently in peril in science fiction flicks | 54 |
| It might be given to a waiter or a police investigator | 54 |
| Its alphabet has 38 letters and no upper- or lowercase | 54 |
| Instrument in Schubert's "Trout Quintet" | 54 |
| Its symbol is a globe composed of jigsaw puzzle pieces | 54 |
| In other words, no way it'll perform as advertised | 54 |
| Insurance giant represented by a "spokesduck" | 55 |
| It has roughly 15% of the world's population: Abbr. | 55 |
| It may be represented by "XXX" in the funnies | 55 |
| Its headquarters are in Union Station, Washington, D.C. | 55 |
| It may be described as ''6 rms riv vu'' | 55 |
| Ingredient of the Brewster sisters' elderberry wine | 55 |
| Island dubbed ''The Jewel of the East'' | 55 |
| Ideological barrier affected by Nixon's China visit | 55 |
| Intro to "mania" [IMPORTANT: SEE NOTE ABOVE.] | 55 |
| Its national anthem is "Amhrán na bhFiann" | 55 |
| It follows Casca's "Speak, hands for me!" | 55 |
| It's part of the Dept. of Health and Human Services | 55 |
| Instrument depicted by the circled squares in this grid | 55 |
| International court site (with ''The'') | 55 |
| Ignores Bart Simpson's advice of 15 or 20 years ago | 55 |
| Its license plates once said "The Corn State" | 55 |
| Its state song is "Home on the Range" (abbr.) | 55 |
| Its streets are immortalized in a classic cowboy ballad | 55 |
| Its inaugural opera was "Europa riconosciuta" | 55 |
| Its flag resembles the U.S. flag but with only one star | 55 |
| Illuminated, as Saint-Exupéry's instrument lamps | 55 |
| It is "resistless in battle," wrote Sophocles | 55 |
| Inventor after whom a Yale residential college is named | 55 |
| Its motto is "Equality before the law": Abbr. | 55 |
| Insurance salesman Ryerson in "Groundhog Day" | 55 |
| It might be found, appropriately, in a newspaper morgue | 55 |
| It includes "The True North strong and free!" | 55 |
| Interjection before "What can the matter be?" | 55 |
| Iroquois tribe for which Syracuse's county is named | 55 |
| Italian port with ruins of an imposing Aragonese castle | 55 |
| Illinois town, site of the first Lincoln-Douglas debate | 55 |
| Italian setting for "The Taming of the Shrew" | 55 |
| It "clings cruelly to us," according to Keats | 55 |
| It's "graphic" but you can still frame it | 55 |
| It works as long as you don't know it shouldn't | 55 |
| It can come after the second word in each starred entry | 55 |
| It can come before the first word in each starred entry | 55 |
| Inequality "A Change Is Gonna Come" refers to | 55 |
| It may be forecast for the start of the second quarter? | 55 |
| India-born character on "The Big Bang Theory" | 55 |
| Israel's first representative to the United Nations | 55 |
| Its capital is Hue (or backward, something from heaven) | 55 |
| It might include all nine of Beethoven's symphonies | 55 |
| Its first C.E.O. was the W.W. I hero Eddie Rickenbacker | 55 |
| Illinois birthplace of Tinkertoys and ice cream sundaes | 55 |
| It took 358 years to prove his "last theorem" | 55 |
| Ina of Food Network's "Barefoot Contessa" | 55 |
| It's transferred from iron to pants during pressing | 55 |
| It's said to be the world's fastest field sport | 55 |
| It's the company that made Mr. Machine in the 1950s | 55 |
| Irish dramatist Hugh, who won a Tony for "Da" | 55 |