Related Clues:

• Blowhard's feature
• Latin for ''I''
• Oft-bruised item
• Freud's "das Ich"
• The self
• LAX organization
• __ boost
• Sense of oneself
• Protection org. since Nov. 2001
• You might want to check yours at the door
• Easily bruised item, perhaps
• Psychoanalysis subject
• It can be fragile
• Identity
• It feels good to have it stroked