| Harder or softer, depending | 27 |
| Hockey Hall of Famer Mikita | 27 |
| Holds to one's decision | 27 |
| Half a legendary comedy duo | 27 |
| Headliner's achievement | 27 |
| Half of a 1970's TV duo | 27 |
| His shot causes many to run | 27 |
| Herb collection for baking? | 27 |
| Household gauge, informally | 27 |
| Hitchcock's thirty-nine | 27 |
| How some warnings are given | 27 |
| Heat source for backpackers | 27 |
| Holy ladies of Haiti: Abbr. | 27 |
| Harsh, as a prison sentence | 27 |
| Harlequin, Pantaloon et al. | 27 |
| Houston Open winner in 1980 | 27 |
| Handles things evenhandedly | 27 |
| Houston baseballer, briefly | 27 |
| Hides the unpleasantness of | 27 |
| Heads of state get-together | 27 |
| Heavyweights face off in it | 27 |
| Head for dry land, in a way | 27 |
| How the Liberty Trees felt? | 27 |
| Half man, half goat of myth | 27 |
| He makes you "it" | 27 |
| Home to the Mikado pheasant | 27 |
| Hard to believe, as a story | 27 |
| Having fewer bright moments | 27 |
| Home city of the Buccaneers | 27 |
| Honeycreeper's relative | 27 |
| Having some color, in a way | 27 |
| Hoof with a heel and a toe? | 27 |
| Historical hanging material | 27 |
| Have no gambling money left | 27 |
| Home of ancient Irish kings | 27 |
| Having missed the bell, say | 27 |
| Humor that won't offend | 27 |
| Home run, in baseball lingo | 27 |
| Harass from the stands, say | 27 |
| Hit from the side, as a car | 27 |
| Head of the class, in slang | 27 |
| Help desk staffers, usually | 27 |
| Hockeyists Lindsay or Green | 27 |
| High school senior, usually | 27 |
| Height of a proverbial pole | 27 |
| Half-marathon training race | 27 |
| Houston was a governor here | 27 |
| High-singing football team? | 27 |
| Home where the buffalo roam | 27 |
| Huge computer data quantity | 27 |
| Hat worn for sun protection | 27 |
| Hatcher on the small screen | 27 |
| Housewife portrayer Hatcher | 27 |
| Hatcher with a Golden Globe | 27 |
| Hatcher who was a Bond girl | 27 |
| Hawaii, before 1959 (Abbr.) | 27 |
| Home base for un astronaute | 27 |
| Hardy's ___ Durbeyfield | 27 |
| Hang-up for an optometrist? | 27 |
| Head of the French Academy? | 27 |
| Half a southwestern cuisine | 27 |
| Happy hour shout, sometimes | 27 |
| Helen Hayes and Martin Beck | 27 |
| Helpful comment to a judge? | 27 |
| He can help you fall asleep | 27 |
| How something may be veiled | 27 |
| Herb eaten with a nightcap? | 27 |
| Highest region in the world | 27 |
| Harbor pilots' concerns | 27 |
| Hinder, with "up" | 27 |
| Hardly a win-win situation? | 27 |
| Hand-color fabric, in a way | 27 |
| Hobbes of comics fame, e.g. | 27 |
| Having an extended opening? | 27 |
| Homemade backyard plaything | 27 |
| Hamlet, Macbeth, or Othello | 27 |
| How some battles are fought | 27 |
| Heading on a list of chores | 27 |
| He worked with Cuba in 1996 | 27 |
| Harvard roommate of Al Gore | 27 |
| How most music is performed | 27 |
| Having an aristocratic mien | 27 |
| He sang with the group Dawn | 27 |
| How some practical jokes go | 27 |
| Handyman's storage unit | 27 |
| Huey, Dewey and Louie, e.g. | 27 |
| Hellish place of punishment | 27 |
| Having a hard time choosing | 27 |
| Having a hard time deciding | 27 |
| Having a muscle laceration? | 27 |
| Hockey Hall of Fame setting | 27 |
| How-___ (instruction books) | 27 |
| How- -- (DIYers' books) | 27 |
| Has trouble sleeping, maybe | 27 |
| Heads of a Northwest tribe? | 27 |
| How far to count when angry | 27 |
| Hebrew for "good" | 27 |
| Heptathlete's specialty | 27 |
| Hospitality industry worker | 27 |
| Hamilton's post in 1789 | 27 |