Referring Clues

• "State Fair" state
• "Field of Dreams" setting
• Presidential caucus state
• Part of the Corn Belt
• Hawkeye State
• Corn locale
• Big Ten school
• Des Moines is its capital
• Where Buffalo Bill was born
• The Hawkeye State
• Where Red Delicious apples originated
• Early political caucus state
• Hawkeyes' home
• Caucus state
• Big Ten university
• Raccoon River locale
• Hawkeye's home
• See 6-Down
• Waterloo locale
• Dubuque's state
• Keokuk's home
• "The Music Man" setting
• Waterloo's place
• Ottumwa's locale
• Corn Belt state
• Skunk River locale
• Home of Pottawattamie County
• Davenport site
• Big source of corn
• Straw poll setting
• The Hawkeyes of the Big Ten
• For Minnesotans, it's south of the border
• Its state tree is the oak
• The Hawkeyes of college sports
• A Siouan
• Political caucus state
• Place name before and after City
• Home of Private Ryan in "Saving Private Ryan"
• Early state in the presidential campaign
• The Big Sioux River forms part of its border
• Home of the Hawkeyes of the Big Ten
• Sioux City's locale
• "Field of Dreams" locale
• "State Fair" setting
• Quad Cities setting
• Sioux City site
• See 52-Down
• Hawkeye's (or Radar O'Reilly's) state
• Largest class of American battleship
• Where Dubuque is
• Illinois neighbor
• "The Bridges of Madison County" locale
• Corn country
• Home of the Hawkeyes
• Senator Harkin's state
• Nebraska neighbor
• First caucus state
• Critical caucus state
• Des Moines's state
• The 29th state
• Minnesota neighbor
• Buffalo Bill's birthplace
• Herbert Hoover's birthplace
• Johnny Carson's birthplace
• Herbert Hoover's home state
• Davenport's state
• Site of an important caucus
• Important caucus state
• It's south of Minnesota
• Where the Skunk flows
• Site of Davenport
• Its quarter shows a one-room schoolhouse
• One of eleven in the Big Ten
• "American Gothic" setting
• Setting for "The Music Man"
• Ottumwa's state
• Where James T. Kirk was born and raised
• "The Bridges of Madison County" setting
• Early state in presidential campaigns
• Word above "1846" on a quarter back
• Minor-league Cubs' home
• Its license plates once said "The Corn State"
• WWII battleship
• Herky the Hawk's school
• Its state quarter features a Grant Wood design
• Its state quarter says "Foundation in education"
• See 10-Across
• Major caucus site
• Where the Skunk River flows
• Davenport's home
• John Wayne's home state
• Sioux City's state
• Davenport locale
• Dubuque locale
• Kansas neighbor
• Cedar Rapids' state
• See 6 Across
• Council Bluffs' state
• January caucus state
• Where Des Moines is
• "The Music Man" setting
• Des Moines' state
• Ames' state
• South Dakota adjoiner
• 29th state
• Important caucus locale
• State with a big caucus
• Des Moines' locale
• Midwestern state
• Site of newsworthy caucuses
• Waterloo setting
• "The Bridges of Madison County" setting
• "State Fair" state
• "Field of Dreams" setting
• Illinois border sharer
• Waterloo's here
• State admitted after Texas
• Davenport state
• John Wayne's birthplace
• Sioux City state
• Keokuk's state
• It's between the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers
• Setting for "The Bridges of Madison County"
• Caucus site
• It lies between the Mississippi and the Missouri
• River City's state
• A soybean state
• 29th of 50
• "American Gothic" locale
• Place known for its caucuses
• Part of Corn Belt country
• Hawkeye's state
• Falls, river, city or state
• Major presidential caucus state
• Where corn is king
• Big Ten team
• Early caucus state
• Corny state?
• "The Bridges of Madison County" state
• Opening caucus locale
• One of five states in which same-sex marriage is legal
• The 25th state
• Home of Fort Dodge
• Where I-80 crosses I-35
• Where Ann Landers was born
• America's top corn-growing state
• Ames locale
• Midwest university with 23 team wrestling championships
• Dubuque's locale
• Birthplace of Herbert Hoover
• Heart of the Corn Belt
• State named for an Indian tribe
• W.W. II battleship
• Plains state
• 'The Music Man' setting
• 'The Music Man' locale
• Davenport setting
• Davenport's site
• Midwest state
• Corn territory
• 'Field of Dreams' setting
• Sioux City setting
• 'Music Man' locale
• Waterloo is there
• Davenport's setting
• Dubuque is there
• Mississippi River feeder
• River City site
• Mason City is there
• 'Music Man' venue
• 'The Music Man setting'
• Davenport setting?
• Davenport's place
• Ottumwa is there
• 'The Music Man' site
• Des Moines locale
• Winnebago's kin
• State that made same-sex marriage legal in 2009
• Farm boy's home
• Primary state
• 17-Across's state
• Early primary state
• Early stop in a presidential race
• "Hawkeyes" university
• Captain Kirk's home
• Heaven, in "Field of Dreams"
• Waterloo's state
• Early campaign stop
• State with 99 counties but 100 county seats
• 'The Music Man' venue
• Nebraska's neighbor
• Presidential candidates' early battleground
• Skunk River state
• Corn-growing state
• Davenport's location
• Birthplace of Ann Landers
• Where Keokuk is
• Ames' home
• Grant Wood's home
• U.S.S. ___ (W.W. II battleship)
• Siouan tribe
• Skunk rRver state
• Cedar Falls setting
• State where Interstates 35 and 80 cross
• Farm belt state
• State east of Omaha
• Locale for many political debates
• Eastern segment of the Louisiana Purchase
• Corn growing state
• It has rivers named Raccoon and Skunk
• Early stop in a presidential campaign
• Birthplace of John Wayne and Johnny Carson
• John Wayne's birth state
• State known for its caucuses
• Site of Howard Dean's infamous scream
• Corn state
• Place of the "Field of Dreams"
• University with a noted "Writers' Workshop"
• Top corn-producing state
• Caucuses locale
• Home of the McCaughey septuplets
• Place to caucus
• Los Angeles's U.S.S. ___ Museum
• Place known for corn
• One of 14 in the Big Ten
• Home to Cedar Falls and Cedar Rapids
• River City's home
• "Field of Dreams" backdrop
• Fort Dodge's state
• "Drexell's Class" locale
• Waterloo's home
• Missouri neighbor
• Only state with a two-vowel postal code
• Word repeated in ___ City, ___
• Hawkeyes
• Minnesota's neighbor
• Site of the house that inspired "American Gothic"
• Part of the Louisiana Purchase
• Name repeated in ___ City, ___
• Where Hawkeyes live
• River flowing SE to the Mississippi
• Des Moines home
• See 26 Down
• State east of Nebraska
• Corny place
• Des Moines setting
• State whose straw poll was discontinued in 2015
• Hawkeyes university
• 'State Fair' setting
• Caucus locale
• Louisiana Territory state
• ___ Writers' Workshop
• It's east of Nebraska
• State east of the Big Sioux River
• Media focus last 2/1
• Its eastern and western borders are formed entirely by rivers
• Where the presidential primary season kicks off
• A Corn Belt state
• State south of Minnesota
• Illinois's neighbor
• Sioux City locale
• State of the Corn Belt
• State that produces the most corn
• Site of the first-in-the-nation caucuses
• Des Moines's home
• Where Herbert Hoover was born
• Davenport spot
• Important American caucus state
• Radar O'Reilly's home state
• Where Grant Wood's "American Gothic" house is
• "The Corn State"
• Its motto is "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain"
• Middle America state
• Locale for two of the Quad Cities
• Its seal has a riverboat and plow
• State that begins with the letter "I"
• Des Moines is this states' capital
• State next to Nebraska
• State next to Minnesota
• State known for corn
• Its caucus is often raucous
• "The Tall Corn State"
• First state to weigh in on presidential candidates
• First state to vote
• Birth state of Elijah Wood
• Where Slipknot hails from
• Home of Slipknot
• '01 Slipknot state-named album
• State-named '01 Slipknot album
• Midwest US state
• Slipknot home state
• Home state of Slipknot
• Midwest state Slipknot hails from
• US state
• Nixon, weak even in the Midwest?
• Area of Ohio was home to some Americans
• State of USA
• Its capital is Des Moines
• In America, it occupies some of the radio waves
• In this state, a number cannot get the whole way!
• It's located between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers
• Site of early caucuses
• 43-Down's state
• Fort Defiance State Park site
• Major corn producer
• US state, capital Des Moines
• State - or don't - say the extent of my debt?
• British isle superior to a US state
• Cedar Rapids locale
• North-central U.S. river, city or state
• Grant Wood locale
• Council Bluffs locale
• Waterloo's location
• Music Man state
• Site of Drake University
• "___ Stubborn" ("The Music Man" song)
• State's big town, say, not welcoming outsiders
• US state capitals of Indiana and Oregon wielding authority
• Black Hawk State Park setting
• State that's north of Missouri
• State whose eastern border is formed by the Mississippi River
• Four-letter state that's north of Missouri
• It's big and corny
• "The Music Man" state
• Data transfer was cut short for state
• It borders both the Missouri and the Mississippi rivers
• American state
• State where Cedar Rapids is
• Midwestern state where Keokuk and Sioux City are
• State the Des Moines River runs through
• Cedar Rapids setting
• Only state name beginning with two vowels
• Its east and west borders are formed entirely by rivers
• Vast corny place
• Early presidential battleground
• "If you build it, he will come" setting
• "State Fair" locale
• Major caucus state
• Skunk River region
• "Field of Dreams" state
• Early stop for presidential hopefuls
• Minnesota's southern neighbor
• One of the 50
• State admitted to the Union after Texas
• Where the first presidential caucuses are held
• Where Sioux City is
• Home to a Hawkeye
• Only state whose entire east and west borders are rivers
• State bordered by the Mississippi and Missouri
• State since 1846
• Midwest tribe
• State with America's first female lawyer
• State before Kansas, alphabetically
• Captain Kirk's birth state
• Locale of Drake University
• Dubuque's site
• Captain Kirk's home state
• It has a city named Peru
• Dubuque's home
• State north of Missouri
• Neighbor of Missouri
• State between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers
• John Wayne Birthplace Museum locale
• State of the Union
• Amana Colonies state
• State known for its caucus
• Early stop for presidential candidates
• State whose east and west borders are rivers
• State after Indiana, alphabetically
• Dubuque’s state
• The Mississippi forms its eastern border
• Major corn-producing state
• It's in the Midwest
• State across the Missouri from Nebraska
• Four-letter state that isn't Ohio or Utah
• State where "Field of Dreams" is set
• The Des Moines Register's state
• Sioux tribe
• Only state whose name starts with two vowels
• Where Davenport is
• Geographical name that comes from the Sioux for "sleepy ones"
• Its state seal shows a steamboat on the Mississippi
• People also known as the Baxoje
• State known for caucuses
• Original site of golf's John Deere Classic
• Its state fair is much visited by politicians
• State named after a Siouan tribe
• Top pork producer in the U.S.
• State next to Illinois
• Home state of Simon Estes
• Hoover was the only president born there
• ___ caucuses
• Maquoketa Caves state
• State that's home to the American Gothic House
• Meskwaki Nation's state
• Field of Dreams home
• State where you can visit the world's largest popcorn ball
• One of 24-Down's 50
• State generating the highest percentage of its electricity by wind
• Johnny Carson's home state
• ___ City, IA
• A Midwest state
• Caitlin Clark's college
• Ames's state
• State with the only two-vowel postal code
• "I thought of a joke about ___, but it's too corny" (groaner)
• It has a higher population of pigs than people
• State with the world's largest truck stop
• Locale of the house depicted in "American Gothic"
• ___ City, ___
• Missouri's neighbor
• State where the World Food Prize is awarded
• 57-Down's state
• Where more pigs live than people
• State known for growing corn
• State that is nearly 90% farmland
• State that's home to Effigy Mounds National Monument
• Raccoon River's state
• State that holds quadrennial caucuses
• Where Captain Kirk was born and raised
• Maquoketa's state
• American Gothic House state
• Caitlin Clark's college team
• State where sliced bread was invented
• Doubly landlocked U.S. state
• Corn-y state
• Home of the "American Gothic" house
• Where Caitlin Clark played college hoops
• Future birthplace of Captain Kirk
• Where Caitlin Clark played Division I basketball
• Caitlin Clark's alma mater
• State with more pigs than people