- IOWA
- Home of the "Mound Builders."
- Big Ten school
- Hawkeye State
- Missouri neighbor
- Sen. Grassley's state
- Where Indianola is
- A Corn Belt state
- Part of the Louisiana Purchase
- It's three states west of 2-Down
- Home of Grinnell College
- Hawkeye's home
- State known for tavern sandwiches
- State with a botched caucus in 2020
- Early stop in a presidential race
- State with a silo on its license plate
- 2016 swing state
- Trisyllabic state, even though it has fewer letters than 64-Across
- State in which "The Music Man" is set
- Northernmost state comprised entirely of Louisiana Purchase land
- Waterloo's home
- Field of Dreams setting
- Indigenous Oklahoman
- Ottumwa's state
- Davenport site
- Caucus state
- Critical caucus state
- Davenport's spot
- Its motto is "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain"
- Its state quarter has an image based on a Grant Wood painting
- Its state quarter says "Foundation in Education"
- State where the presidential primaries begin
- First state to allow women to practice law
- Louisiana Purchase state
- It is true that I was born in ___, but I can't speak for my twin sister (Abigail Van Buren)
- Only state that Pete Buttigieg won in 2020
- Corn Belt state
- Big Ten member
- Home of the Hawkeyes
- Its quarter says "Foundation in Education"
- Home of Drake University
- Corn country
- Davenport's place
- Part of the Corn Belt
- Davenport setting
- Big Ten team
- The Music Man setting
- Davenport's location
- Grant Wood's home state (4)
- The Bridges of Madison County setting
- Its state quarter reads "Foundation in Education"
- ___ Stubborn ("The Music Man" song)
- Site of Drake University
- State where Ann Landers was born
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape setting
- Annual competitor for college football's Cy-Hawk Trophy
- Locale of the world's largest truck stop
- Site, unsurprisingly, of the world's largest bull statue (fun facts: its name is "Albert", and, yes, it includes the gonads)
- The Bridges of Madison County state
- Herbert Hoover's birthplace
- Senator Harkin's state
- Home of Cedar Rapids
- Minnesota neighbor
- Setting for 10-Down
- Field of Dreams locale
- State Fair setting
- Quad Cities setting
- State with a big caucus
- The Hawkeye State
- Hawkeye's (or Radar O'Reilly's) state
- Largest class of American battleship
- See 52-Down
- Sioux City site
- The Bridges of Madison County locale
- Illinois neighbor
- Where Dubuque is
- Dubuque's state
- Nebraska neighbor
- Des Moines's state
- First caucus state
- The 29th state
- State Fair state
- Buffalo Bill's birthplace
- Early political caucus state
- Johnny Carson's birthplace
- Presidential caucus state
- Herbert Hoover's home state
- Davenport's state
- Political caucus state
- Site of an important caucus
- American Gothic setting
- Important caucus state
- Its quarter shows a one-room schoolhouse
- One of eleven in the Big Ten
- Site of Davenport
- Corny state?
- It's south of Minnesota
- Where corn is king
- Where the Skunk flows
- America's top corn-growing state
- State named for an Indian tribe
- Birthplace of Ann Landers
- Heaven, in "Field of Dreams"
- State with 99 counties but 100 county seats
- Birthplace of John Wayne and Johnny Carson
- Cedar Falls setting
- Davenport's home
- Early stop in a presidential campaign
- Grant Wood's home
- It has rivers named Raccoon and Skunk
- John Wayne's birth state
- Keokuk's state
- Field of Dreams backdrop
- John Wayne's home state
- Midwestern state
- Top corn-producing state
- Home to Cedar Falls and Cedar Rapids
- South Dakota neighbor
- State whose tricolor flag features an eagle holding a ribbon
- Top state in ethanol production
- Council Bluffs is there
- Landlocked state
- Early caucus state
- January caucus state
- State Fair site
- Davenport state
- Farm Belt state
- Grant Wood's birthplace
- Hoover's birthplace
- Major caucus site
- Where the Skunk River flows
- Midwest university with 23 team wrestling championships
- One of five states in which same-sex marriage is legal
- 17-Across's state
- Eastern segment of the Louisiana Purchase
- Siouan tribe
- State where Interstates 35 and 80 cross
- State known for its caucuses
- Only state with a two-vowel postal code
- Site of the house that inspired "American Gothic"
- State whose straw poll was discontinued in 2015
- Sioux City state
- Skunk River state
- Where Grant Wood's "American Gothic" house is
- It borders both the Missouri and the Mississippi rivers
- Captain Kirk's home state
- Only state whose entire east and west borders are rivers
- State admitted to the Union after Texas
- State since 1846
- Amana Colonies state
- Hawkeye's state
- The Mississippi forms its eastern border
- Field of Dreams state
- Des Moines' state
- Hoover was the only president born there
- Original site of golf's John Deere Classic
- __ caucuses
- Ames's state
- Cedar Rapids state
- Field of Dreams home
- Where much of "Children of the Corn" was filmed
- Caitlin Clark's college team
- State that holds quadrennial caucuses
- State where sliced bread was invented
- Des Moines' home
- River City's state
- Midwest Indian
- Radar's home
- Where Keokuk is
- Ames' locale
- Birthplace of Herbert Hoover
- Dubuque's home
- Where Council Bluffs is
- Radar's home state
- State of the Union
- Where Des Moines is
- Bridges of Madison County setting
- Neighbor of Kansas
- South Dakota adjoiner
- Davenport locale
- Sioux City's state
- Council Bluffs' state
- Dubuque locale
- Kansas neighbor
- See 6 Across
- Ames' state
- John Wayne's birthplace
- Des Moines' locale
- Dubuque's locale
- Heart of the Corn Belt
- Sioux City's locale
- State east of Omaha
- Bridges of Madison County locale
- 29th state
- Louisiana Purchase part
- See 26 Down
- State east of Nebraska
- Where Hawkeyes live
- It's east of Nebraska
- Media focus last 2/1
- State east of the Big Sioux River
- State south of Minnesota
- Its seal has a riverboat and plow
- Middle America state
- State north of Missouri
- Buffalo Bill birthplace
- State with the 45th-highest high point
- Gov. Loveless' state.
- It's east of Omaha
- State with Des Moines
- It's between the Missouri and Mississippi
- See 62 Across
- Minnesota's neighbor.
- Where H. C. Loveless was elected Governor.
- Setting for "Field of Dreams"
- Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain is its motto
- Radar O'Reilly's home state
- Setting for "The Bridges of Madison County"
- Des Moines is its capital
- Setting for "The Music Man"
- Its license plates once said "The Corn State"
- Minor-league Cubs' home
- Word above "1846" on a quarter back
- Herky the Hawk's school
- Its state quarter features a Grant Wood design
- WWII battleship
- It has counties named Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, and Harrison
- Neighbor of Illinois
- See 10-Across
- Waterloo setting
- Big Ten wrestling powerhouse
- Mighty U. S. dreadnought.
- Sen. Hickenlooper's bailiwick.
- Battleship still in mothballs.
- Hickenlooper's state.
- Gov. Beardsley's state.
- Leader in production of eggs, corn and oats.
- Leading egg-producing state.
- Sen. Hickenlooper's state.
- Senator Bourke Hickenlooper's State.
- Where Ottumwa is.
- Where the corn grows tall.
- Birthplace of Grant Wood.
- Where Cherokee is.
- Where Davenport is.
- Where Sioux City is.
- Where the corn grows.
- Where there is no state debt.
- Great corn state.
- State.
- Where Cedar Falls is.
- Where the tall corn grows.
- Abode of the Hawkeyes.
- One of the Big Ten.
- Where Fort Dodge is.
- Winner of Rose Bowl game, 1957.
- Gov. Loveless' home.
- Rose Bowl winner.
- Home of the Hawkeye.
- Heartland of American agriculture.
- Rose Bowl winner, 1959.
- Where Burlington is.
- Siouan Indian.
- Sioux.
- Locale of "The Music Man."
- Sioux tribe.
- Tributary of the Mississippi.
- Native state of Meredith Willson
- Corn state.
- Indian.
- Home of the Cyclones.
- Midwest state.
- The 29th.
- Central state
- Where Waterloo is
- Sen. Hughes's state
- Kansas Indian
- Where Drake U. is
- Missouri's neighbor
- The Hawkeyes
- Tall-corn state
- Where Gov. Ray holds sway
- Part of the La. Purchase
- Siouan tribesman
- The Hawkeyes of the Big Ten
- Harry Hershfield's home state
- Rose Bowl team: 1982
- Waterloo is here
- Big Ten competitor
- Home of Wood works
- Peach Bowl winner: 1982
- Hoover called it home
- Scene of first caucus in '84
- Des Moines is here
- State in the Corn Belt
- Herbert Hoover's state
- Davenport milieu
- U.S. warship in 1989 news
- Battleship in the 1989 news
- Des Moines's locale
- State featured in this puzzle
- The Music Man locale
- Where Ames is
- Corn locale
- Where Buffalo Bill was born
- Where Red Delicious apples originated
- Raccoon River locale
- See 6-Down
- Waterloo locale
- Keokuk's home
- Ottumwa's locale
- Waterloo's place
- Home of Pottawattamie County
- Skunk River locale
- Big source of corn
- For Minnesotans, it's south of the border
- Straw poll setting
- A Siouan
- The Hawkeyes of college sports
- Early state in the presidential campaign
- Home of Private Ryan in "Saving Private Ryan"
- Place name before and after City
- Home of the Hawkeyes of the Big Ten
- The Big Sioux River forms part of its border
- Early state in presidential campaigns
- Where James T. Kirk was born and raised
- Home of Fort Dodge
- Where I-80 crosses I-35
- Geographical name that comes from the Sioux for "sleepy ones"
- Its state fair is much visited by politicians
- Its state seal shows a steamboat on the Mississippi
- Johnny Carson's home state
- State generating the highest percentage of its electricity by wind
- Top pork producer in the U.S.
- ___ Writers' Workshop
- Locale for many political debates
- U.S.S. ___ (W.W. II battleship)
- Los Angeles's U.S.S. ___ Museum
- One of 14 in the Big Ten
- Place to caucus
- Name repeated in ___ City, ___
- River flowing SE to the Mississippi
- Word repeated in ___ City, ___
- Caucus locale
- Its eastern and western borders are formed entirely by rivers
- Where the presidential primary season kicks off
- Des Moines's home
- Locale for two of the Quad Cities
- Site of the first-in-the-nation caucuses
- State that produces the most corn
- Where Herbert Hoover was born
- Locale of Drake University
- Midwest tribe
- Where the first presidential caucuses are held
- Early stop for presidential candidates
- John Wayne Birthplace Museum locale
- I thought of a joke about ___, but it's too corny (groaner)
- 57-Down's state
- Early voting site
- It has a higher population of pigs than people
- Locale of the house depicted in "American Gothic"
- Where more pigs live than people
- Where Captain Kirk was born and raised
- Drake's state
- Presidential campaign kickoff state
- State that made same-sex marriage legal in 2009
- Ames' home
- Fort Dodge's state
- Home of Slipknot
- Where Slipknot hails from
- '01 Slipknot state-named album
- State-named '01 Slipknot album
- State whose east and west borders are navigable rivers
- Early caucus site
- Important caucus holder
- Alma mater for Rita Dove and Cathy Park Hong
- Neighbor of Minnesota
- University with a celebrated Writers' Workshop
- Birth state of Captain James T. Kirk
- North-central U.S. river, city or state
- It's corny and proud of it!
- Corn-growing state
- Farm-belt member
- River, city or state
- Council Bluffs locale
- It's corny and one of 50
- Heartland state
- 29th state as of 1846
- Falls, river, city or state
- River or city
- Spanish-American War battleship
- State admitted after Texas
- Waterloo's here
- Illinois border sharer
- Site of newsworthy caucuses
- Important caucus locale
- Hawkeyes university
- Waterloo's state
- The Corn State
- Important American caucus state
- State of the Corn Belt
- Major caucus state
- One of the 50
- Vast corny place
- Home state of Simon Estes
- Maquoketa Caves state
- People also known as the Baxoje
- Captain Kirk's birth state
- Home to a Hawkeye
- State before Kansas, alphabetically
- State bordered by the Mississippi and Missouri
- Four-letter state that isn't Ohio or Utah
- State across the Missouri from Nebraska
- State after Indiana, alphabetically
- State between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers
- State known for its caucus
- State where "Field of Dreams" is set
- State whose east and west borders are rivers
- The Des Moines Register's state
- State next to Illinois
- State that's home to the American Gothic House
- Only state whose name starts with two vowels
- State known for caucuses
- State named after a Siouan tribe
- Is this heaven? No, it's ___ ("Field of Dreams")
- Grinnell College's state
- State where Captain Kirk will be born?
- State with caucuses
- The Music Man state
- Neighbor of Nebraska
- State crossed in an annual bike ride
- State that produces the most ethanol
- U.S. state that produces the most corn
- Home state of Caitlin Clark
- Location within "radio waves"
- Midwestern state where Caitlin Clark grew up
- Minnesota's southern neighbor
- State home to Maquoketa and Council Bluffs
- Grant Wood's origin
- Presidential primary state
- Indian of Nebraska
- Davenport's locale
- Corn Belt country
- Home of the Amana Colonies
- Perennial wrestling power
- Buffalo Bill's home state
- Part of Corn Belt country
- American Gothic locale
- 29th of 50
- Place known for its caucuses
- It's between the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers
- A soybean state
- Caucus site
- It lies between the Mississippi and the Missouri
- Major presidential caucus state
- Opening caucus locale
- Grant Wood locale
- Place known for corn
- Place of the "Field of Dreams"
- Waterloo's location
- Corny place
- Davenport's setting
- Early stop for presidential hopefuls
- Only state name beginning with two vowels
- State with America's first female lawyer
- Its capital is Des Moines
- Major corn-producing state
- Neighbor of Missouri
- Caitlin Clark's college
- Meskwaki Nation's state
- State where you can visit the world's largest popcorn ball
- State with the only two-vowel postal code
- ___ City, IA
- State where the World Food Prize is awarded
- American Gothic House state
- Maquoketa's state
- State home to the world's largest truck stop
- State that is nearly 90% farmland
- State that's home to Effigy Mounds National Monument
- 29th Union admission
- Wisconsin neighbor
- Buffalo Bill's birth state
- University where Caitlin Clark was a star, or the state where she was born
- Home of Winnebago Industries
- Maytag's home state
- White Cloud's people
- It's between the Missouri and the Mississippi
- Presidential candidates' early battleground
- 43-Down's state
- Fort Defiance State Park site
- It's located between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers
- Major corn producer
- Sioux City setting
- Site of early caucuses
- If you build it, he will come setting
- State Fair locale
- Black Hawk State Park setting
- Cedar Rapids setting
- Early presidential battleground
- Governor Kim Reynolds's domain
- Its east and west borders are formed entirely by rivers
- American Gothic state
- Home state of Mamie Eisenhower and Herbert Hoover
- Its flag says "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain"
- Its highest point is Hawkeye Point
- Site of famed caucuses
- Des Moines setting
- Home of Hoover's presidential library
- It's sandwiched between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers
- Site of noted caucuses
- Its most populous county is Polk County
