| Council Bluffs is there | 23 |
| Corn growing state | 18 |
| Cedar Rapids locale | 19 |
| Caucus site | 11 |
| Buffalo Bill's birthplace | 29 |
| Big source of corn | 18 |
| Ames locale | 11 |
| A soybean state | 15 |
| 29th of 50 | 10 |
| "The Tall Corn State" | 31 |
| "The Bridges of Madison County" locale | 48 |
| "Hawkeyes" university | 31 |
| ''State Fair'' state | 36 |
| ''Field of Dreams'' locale | 42 |
| Word above "1846" on a quarter back | 45 |
| Where Slipknot hails from | 25 |
| Where Red Delicious apples originated | 37 |
| Where James T. Kirk was born and raised | 39 |
| Where I-80 crosses I-35 | 23 |
| Where Drake U. is | 17 |
| Where Ann Landers was born | 26 |
| Waterloo's state | 20 |
| Waterloo's place | 20 |
| Waterloo's location | 23 |
| Waterloo's here | 19 |
| Waterloo locale | 15 |
| W.W. II battleship | 18 |
| University with a noted "Writers' Workshop" | 57 |
| U.S.S. ___ (W.W. II battleship) | 31 |
| U.S. warship in 1989 news | 25 |
| Top corn-producing state | 24 |
| “The Music Man” setting | 31 |
| The Hawkeyes of college sports | 30 |
| “The Bridges of Madison County” setting | 47 |
| The Big Sioux River forms part of its border | 44 |
| Tall-corn state | 15 |
| Straw poll setting | 18 |
| State-named '01 Slipknot album | 34 |
| State with major floods in 2008 | 31 |
| State with a big caucus | 23 |
| State with 99 counties but 100 county seats | 43 |
| State where the presidential primaries begin | 44 |
| State where Interstates 35 and 80 cross | 39 |
| State that made same-sex marriage legal in 2009 | 47 |
| State known for its caucuses | 28 |
| State in the Corn Belt | 22 |
| State featured in this puzzle | 29 |
| Spanish-American War battleship | 31 |
| South Dakota adjoiner | 21 |
| Skunk River locale | 18 |
| Site of Howard Dean's infamous scream | 41 |
| Site of Drake University | 24 |
| Site of an important caucus | 27 |
| Sioux City site | 15 |
| Setting for "The Music Man" | 37 |
| Sen. Hughes's state | 23 |
| Scene of first caucus in '84 | 32 |
| River or city | 13 |
| River City's home | 21 |
| Presidential primary state | 26 |
| Presidential candidates' early battleground | 47 |
| Presidential campaign kickoff state | 35 |
| Place to caucus | 15 |
| Place of the "Field of Dreams" | 40 |
| Place name before and after City | 32 |
| Place known for its caucuses | 28 |
| Place known for corn | 20 |
| Part of Corn Belt country | 25 |
| Ottumwa's state | 19 |
| Ottumwa's locale | 20 |
| One of five states in which same-sex marriage is legal | 54 |
| One of 14 in the Big Ten | 24 |
| Neighbor of Illinois | 20 |
| Native state of Meredith Willson | 32 |
| Missouri's neighbor | 23 |
| Missouri neighbor | 17 |
| Minor-league Cubs' home | 27 |
| Midwestern state that's home to the Hobo Museum | 51 |
| Midwest university with 23 team wrestling championships | 55 |
| Maytag's home state | 23 |
| Los Angeles's U.S.S. ___ Museum | 35 |
| Locale for many political debates | 33 |
| Keokuk's home | 17 |
| Kansas Indian | 13 |
| Johnny Carson's birthplace | 30 |
| John Wayne's birth state | 28 |
| January caucus state | 20 |
| Its state quarter has an image based on a Grant Wood painting | 61 |
| Its state quarter features a Grant Wood design | 46 |
| Its quarter shows a one-room schoolhouse | 40 |
| Its motto is "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain" | 79 |
| Its license plates once said "The Corn State" | 55 |
| Its flag states "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain" | 82 |
| Its caucus is often raucous | 27 |
| It's south of Minnesota | 27 |
| It's corny and one of 50 | 28 |
| It's between the Missouri and the Mississippi | 49 |
| It has rivers named Raccoon and Skunk | 37 |
| It has counties named Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, and Harrison | 101 |
| Important caucus state | 22 |