| It can put some distance between you and your former self | 57 |
| It can precede the first names in six puzzle answers | 52 |
| It can mean "peace" or "welfare" | 52 |
| It can make mean men, but it can't make men mean | 52 |
| It can follow the last word of this puzzle's theme entries | 62 |
| It can follow the last word of this puzzle's five longest answers | 69 |
| It can follow the ends of this puzzle's eight longest answers | 65 |
| It can follow "Party people in the house!" | 52 |
| It can follow "Ab" or precede "Four" | 56 |
| It can come before the first word in each starred entry | 55 |
| It can come after the second word in each starred entry | 55 |
| It can come after "no one" or "someone" | 59 |
| It can be winkin' or blinkin', but it doesn't nod | 61 |
| It can be viewed with a scanning tunneling microscope | 53 |
| It came in whatever color you wanted, as long as it was black | 61 |
| It calls itself "The Broadband Phone Company" | 55 |
| It borders the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Gulf of Oman | 58 |
| It bills itself as "The independent guide to technology" | 66 |
| It begins with "Birthday" on "The White Album" | 66 |
| It begins "Two households, both alike in dignity..." | 62 |
| It begins "Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son ..." | 69 |
| It begins "Sing, goddess, the wrath of ..." | 53 |
| It begins "Now in the first year of Cyrus" | 52 |
| It begins "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" | 67 |
| It begins "In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia..." | 66 |
| It begins "In the days when the judges ruled..." | 58 |
| It begins "In the days when the judges ruled ..." | 59 |
| It begins "Forasmuch as many have taken in hand ..." | 62 |
| It begins "cube," but not "circle" | 54 |
| It begins "corner," but not "circle" | 56 |
| It begins "A well regulated Militia . . ." | 52 |
| It begins ''Now in the first year of Cyrus . . .'' | 66 |
| It began with the slogan "It's time to get connected" | 67 |
| It became extinct less than 100 years after its discovery | 57 |
| It “begins in delight and ends in wisdom”: Robert Frost | 63 |
| It appears several times in this puzzle, so fill'er up! | 59 |
| It always starts on the same day of the week as Sept. | 53 |
| It aired the first coast-to-coast Oscar telecast, 1953 | 54 |
| It aired before "The Hogan Family" in the '80s | 60 |
| It accounts for roughly 15% of the Earth's population | 57 |
| It absorbed data from Funk and Wagnalls, among others | 53 |
| It "waits at the crossway of the stars," wrote Borges | 63 |
| It "passeth all understanding": Philippians | 53 |
| It "often gives a small thing a big shadow": old proverb | 66 |
| It "never won any battle," according to Eisenhower | 60 |
| It "maketh many friends," according to the Bible | 58 |
| It "isn't what it used to be," said Simone Signoret | 65 |
| It "isn't what it used to be": Peter De Vries | 59 |
| It "is nothing but perception," wrote Plato | 53 |
| It "has its reasons which reason knows nothing of": Pascal | 68 |
| It "goeth its way on triple feet": Aeschylus | 54 |
| It "comes on little cat feet," in a Sandburg poem | 59 |
| It "clings cruelly to us," according to Keats | 55 |
| It "ain't what it used to be": Yogi Berra | 55 |
| Israeli weapon named after its inventor's first name | 56 |
| Israeli singer Naim with the 2008 hit "New Soul" | 58 |
| Israeli city whose citadel was built by the Ottomans | 52 |
| Israel's foreign minister during the Six-Day War | 52 |
| Israel's first representative to the United Nations | 55 |
| Israel's first president was on its first flight | 52 |
| Isley that sang with Rod on "This Old Heart of Mine" | 62 |
| Isle from which Napoleon escaped on February 26, 1815 | 53 |
| Island's PC hookup with Turing Test beating software (5) | 60 |
| Island whose population triples in the summer due to tourism | 60 |
| Island whose name means, literally, "main land" | 57 |
| Island whose name is another word in this puzzle spelled backward | 65 |
| Island where MacArthur fulfilled his promise to return | 54 |
| Island that's home to the world's largest lizard | 56 |
| Island that Truman wants to go to in "The Truman Show" | 64 |
| Island setting in Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" | 68 |
| Island setting for "Pirates of the Caribbean" | 55 |
| Island on which the most common surname is Christian | 52 |
| Island of French Polynesia famous for its black beaches | 55 |
| Island north of Venezuela's Paraguaná Peninsula | 54 |
| Island mentioned in the Beach Boys' "Kokomo" | 58 |
| Island group the NFL's Troy Polamalu's family is from | 61 |
| Island group in Synge's "Riders to the Sea" | 57 |
| Island featured in "The Count of Monte Cristo" | 56 |
| Island dubbed ''The Jewel of the East'' | 55 |
| Island chain that's home to Portugal's highest mountain | 63 |
| Island capital near Robert Louis Stevenson's burial site | 60 |
| Isabel Allende's "La Casa de ___ Espiritus" | 57 |
| Isaac who wrote himself into "Murder at the ABA" | 58 |
| Isaac Stern contemporary (after using a pull down menu) | 55 |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer story "___ the Yeshiva Boy" | 59 |
| Is very talented, before "him" or "her" | 59 |
| Is raised all the way up and then back down to the midpoint | 59 |
| Is "somewhere in middle America" to Counting Crows | 60 |
| Irving Berlin's "You're Just in Love," e.g. | 61 |
| Irritate [solve the celeb puzzle series at avxwords.com] | 56 |
| Iroquois tribe for which Syracuse's county is named | 55 |
| Iroquois tribe for which one of the Finger Lakes is named | 57 |
| Ironically, he composed the "Microsoft sound" on a Mac | 64 |
| Ironic case study in the 1999 book "Liveness" | 55 |
| Iron ___ Cody ("The Crying Indian" in a 1970s PSA) | 60 |
| Irksome response to "You're avoiding the question" | 64 |
| Irishman who was a Time magazine Person of the Year in 2005 | 59 |
| Irish singer with the album "The Memory of Trees" | 59 |
| Irish poet who wrote "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" | 59 |
| Irish poet of "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" | 52 |