| 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 |
| It's "well regulated" in the Constitution | 55 |
| Ironic case study in the 1999 book "Liveness" | 55 |
| Influential 1975 Edward Abbey novel, with 'The' | 55 |
| Inevitable comparison in reductio ad Hitlerum arguments | 55 |
| Inadequate (whose initials spell "testicles") | 55 |
| It ends a knight's move away from where this starts | 55 |
| It sounds like a fruit, but it's really a jellyfish | 55 |
| Item of sports equipment sometimes seen on top of a car | 55 |
| It's traditionally placed to the right of the knife | 55 |
| Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum exhibit, for short | 55 |
| Its motto was "Schild und Schwert der Partei" | 55 |
| It might put you head and shoulders above everyone else | 55 |
| It's available in Razberi, Ohranj and Vanil flavors | 55 |
| It's roughly between a batter's chest and knees | 55 |
| Inga who portrayed Gretchen Kraus on "Benson" | 55 |
| Indian poet who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature | 55 |
| Island of French Polynesia famous for its black beaches | 55 |
| Its fruit pulp is an ingredient in Worcestershire sauce | 55 |
| It "ain't what it used to be": Yogi Berra | 55 |
| Involving folk with the highest security clearance, say | 55 |
| Island setting for "Pirates of the Caribbean" | 55 |
| It lost to "Moon River" for a Best Song Oscar | 55 |
| In a 1978 song he was "buried in his jammies" | 55 |
| Ivan directed her in "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" | 55 |
| It has "batch" and "patch" commands | 55 |
| It calls itself "The Broadband Phone Company" | 55 |
| It figures heavily in the Mediterranean Diet, for short | 55 |
| It's almost always actually horseradish in the U.S. | 55 |
| It's depreciated with respect to foreign currencies | 55 |
| Internet letters, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 55 |
| Instrument maker with an interlocking-tuning-forks logo | 55 |
| Isaac Stern contemporary (after using a pull down menu) | 55 |
| Indian tribe associated with the Seven Cities of Cibola | 55 |
| It "goeth its way on triple feet": Aeschylus | 54 |
| India city featured in "Slumdog Millionaire" | 54 |
| It lost to "Born Free" for Best Song of 1966 | 54 |
| Illinois city, site of the last Lincoln-Douglas debate | 54 |
| Item dropped on Wile E. Coyote in Road Runner cartoons | 54 |
| In a rhombus, half the product of its diagonal lengths | 54 |
| Island north of Venezuela's Paraguaná Peninsula | 54 |
| It's often formed around a sinking tropical island | 54 |
| Indigo Girls "A cooler and ___ day suitcase" | 54 |
| It lost out to "Braveheart" for Best Picture | 54 |
| Includes in an e-mail without other recipients knowing | 54 |
| Informally, popularizer of "White Christmas" | 54 |
| It has headquarters at N.Y.C.'s Time Warner Center | 54 |
| I __ over my string of victories at the rec center ... | 54 |
| Illustrator of Cervantes's "Don Quixote" | 54 |
| Institution nicknamed "Coca-Cola University" | 54 |
| Its activity was once attributed to the monster Typhon | 54 |
| Italian carmaker that recently partnered with Chrysler | 54 |
| Its state song is "Old Folks At Home": Abbr. | 54 |
| It begins "cube," but not "circle" | 54 |
| It's prohibited for a single person to drive there | 54 |