| I'm fining you 2000 Flushes after passing the supermarket; in the future, please follow the ___. | 100 |
| Ian's role in "The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Return of the King" | 95 |
| Ibuprofen: "Line up arrows on cap and bottle. Push cap with thumbs"... | 80 |
| Iconic AC/DC album with the song "You Shook Me All Night Long" | 72 |
| Idea that motivates getting bikini-clad babes to advertise motor vehicles | 73 |
| Identification that John David Sweeney, Jr. was the first to receive: Abbr. | 75 |
| If he's missing a few office supplies, don't say, "It's okay, we'll ___" ... | 102 |
| If one were to ___, one would see a bunch of social networking parody videos | 77 |
| If one were to ___, one would discover that they have 8 million articles in 253 languages | 89 |
| If one were to ___, one would get articles about crazy online personal ads | 74 |
| If one were to ___, one would learn that their address is 605 5th St., Seattle, WA | 82 |
| If they're dropping by your house, don't stick your head out the window | 79 |
| If you go out drinking with them, say "Cheers!" instead of "Bottoms up!" | 92 |
| Iggy investigated the theft of benches from the weight-room so he could yell "___!" | 93 |
| Iggy reported on the delayed start at the billiards tournament so he could yell "___!" | 96 |
| Iggy reviewed the autobiography of a hide-and-seek champion so he could yell "___!" | 93 |
| Iggy wrote about the rising popularity of sleep shirts so he could yell "___!" | 89 |
| Illegal football tackle involving grabbing the inside of the shoulder pads from behind or the side | 98 |
| Illegal saloon offering "complimentary" drinks to those who paid to see an animal curiosity | 101 |
| Illinois city where HAL from "2001" was purportedly programmed | 72 |
| Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin | 120 |
| Illustrator of "Paradise Lost" and "The Divine Comedy" | 74 |
| Image in the final scene of Michelangelo Antonioni's "L'Avventura" | 84 |
| Impersonal notes ... or what four groups of this puzzle's answers do (totaling 11 words) | 92 |
| Impetuously ... or what can go on each part of the answer to each starred clue? | 79 |
| Important trial figure, or what you'll be when you read this puzzle's other four longest answers | 104 |
| Impressionist who painted people on lawns, in cafés, brutally murdering each other, etc. | 91 |
| Impressionist whom Mel Blanc labeled "The Man of a Thousand Voices" | 77 |
| 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 |