| Hip-hop mogul, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 52 |
| Hip-hop magazine with a "Five-Mic albums" rating | 58 |
| Hip-hop artist with the 2013 #1 album "Born Sinner" | 61 |
| Hip-hop artist whose name is a homonym for something he DJs with | 64 |
| Hip to someone who thinks they're being hip using street slang | 66 |
| Hint for understanding this puzzle's starred answers | 56 |
| Hindu musician's source material for improvisation | 54 |
| Hilaire who wrote "The Bad Child's Book of Beasts" | 64 |
| Highway with a terminus at Dawson Creek, British Columbia | 57 |
| Highway patrol device once trademarked by Smith and Wesson | 58 |
| Highly-touted NBC spinoff cancelled in 2008 before production | 61 |
| Highly rated 1997 film with the song "Tupelo Honey" | 61 |
| Highly hyped N.L. pitcher Stephen Strasburg, for one | 52 |
| Highly anticipated product with a June, 2007 release | 52 |
| Highlander in Sir Walter Scott's "Waverley" | 57 |
| Highest-scoring Scrabble word that doesn't use A, E, I, O or U | 66 |
| Highest volcano on the Mediterranean's largest island | 57 |
| Highest and hottest mountain in Italy south of the Alps | 55 |
| Highest academic degrees offered by Harvard Law Sch. | 52 |
| Higher septet of black squares in this grid, typographically | 60 |
| Higher pair of black squares in this grid, typographically | 58 |
| High-stepping dance that involves a little golden showers? | 58 |
| High-speed letters seen in this puzzle's "connections" | 68 |
| High-ranking official--Canada's Leona Aglukkaq is one! | 58 |
| High-quality salad topping, in Rachael Ray shorthand | 52 |
| High-pitched group with a 1958 #1 hit, with "the" | 59 |
| High-jump style named for 1968 Olympic gold medalist Dick | 57 |
| High-handed ambassador stationed off the Italian coast? | 55 |
| High-fiber bowlful endorsed by "The Godfather" actor? | 63 |
| High-end sandwich belonging to an Italian fashion house? | 56 |
| HIGH ROLLER'S CRY (and a timely phrase for today) | 53 |
| High points of which five are found going up in this puzzle | 59 |
| High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, more commonly | 57 |
| High jump technique created by 1968 Olympic gold medalist Dick | 62 |
| Hieroglyphic symbol for the ancient Egyptian "M" | 58 |
| Hideo, Major League Baseball's winningest Japanese pitcher | 62 |
| Hidden help for one who's trying to quit smoking? | 53 |
| Hidden attribute the audience likely hasn't seen before | 59 |
| Hickok's poker hand when he was shot, so they say | 53 |
| Hiawatha's grandmother in "The Song of Hiawatha" | 62 |
| Hester's portrayer in 1995's "The Scarlet Letter" | 67 |
| Heroine of Zona Gale's "Faint Perfume" | 52 |
| Heroine of Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" | 55 |
| Heroine of Wagner's ''The Flying Dutchman'' | 63 |
| Heroine of Tennessee Williams's "Summer and Smoke" | 64 |
| Heroine of Tennessee William's "Summer and Smoke" | 63 |
| Heroine of Menotti's opera "The Consul" | 53 |
| Heroine of Cather's "The Song of the Lark" | 56 |
| Heroine of Bulwer-Lytton's "The Last Days of Pompeii" | 67 |
| Heroine of "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" | 53 |
| Heroine of ''Because of Winn-Dixie'' | 52 |
| Heroine in one of Salinger's "Nine Stories" | 57 |
| Heroine in Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers" | 52 |
| Heroic medal whose recipient didn't feel worthy of it? | 58 |
| Hero's command to the villain, with "her" | 55 |
| Hero you don't want to upset (with "The") | 55 |
| Hero whose statue appears in front of Chicago's Tribune Tower | 65 |
| Hero who helped Odysseus recover Achilles's body | 52 |
| Hero of the 1997 best seller "Cold Mountain" | 54 |
| Hero of Satyajit Ray's "Pather Panchali" | 54 |
| Hero of Charles Frazier's "Cold Mountain" | 55 |
| Hero introduced in "The Curse of Capistrano" | 54 |
| Hero #14 on American Film Institute's 100 Heroes and Villains | 65 |
| Hermione, in the ''Harry Potter'' films | 55 |
| Hermione portrayer in the "Harry Potter" series | 57 |
| Hermione portrayer in the "Harry Potter" movies | 57 |
| Hermia's father in "A Midsummer-Night's Dream" | 64 |
| Hermey of TV's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," e.g. | 67 |
| Herman Wouk novel that won a Pulitzer, with "The" | 59 |
| Herman who said "I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel." | 61 |
| Herman T. Zweibel's weekly, with "The" | 52 |
| Hereditary information of an arboretum's species? | 53 |
| Herd member that can precede the ends of the four longest answers | 65 |
| Herbert who won a Pulitzer for "The People's Choice" | 66 |
| Herbert who played Charles Dreyfus in the Pink Panther films | 60 |
| Herbert of ''The Return of the Pink Panther'' | 61 |
| Herb's daughter in the comic strip "Herb and Jamaal" | 66 |
| Herb whose name is derived from the Latin for "to wash" | 65 |
| Herb that supposedly improves one's immune system | 53 |
| Her wax figure is the smallest in London's Madame Tussauds | 62 |
| Her two Oscar roles were directed by the same person | 52 |
| Her temple at Ephesus is one of the Seven Wonders of the World | 62 |
| Her six Best Actress nominations without a win is a record | 58 |
| Her production company is her first name spelled backwards | 58 |
| Her Oscar-nominated song “May It Be” features Elvish lyrics | 67 |
| Her name can be touch-typed with just the right hand | 52 |
| Her last movie was 1949's 'A Kiss for Corliss' | 58 |
| Her honeymoon included a "Bed-In for Peace" | 53 |
| Her full name anagrams to "horny rap wife" | 52 |
| Her first single was (aptly) "Mrs. Lennon" | 52 |
| Her face ''launched a thousand ships'' | 54 |
| Her creation became a national emblem: June 14, 1777 | 52 |
| Her 1997 debut album included the hit "Bitch" | 55 |
| Her 1994 memoir has the chapter "Desert Storm" | 56 |
| Her 1965 Met debut was as Cio-Cio-San in "Madama Butterfly" | 69 |
| Her "Slipstream" won the 2013 Best Americana Album Grammy | 67 |
| Her "Rehab" won a Grammy for Song of the Year | 55 |
| Her "Don't You Know" was a #1 R & B hit | 57 |
| Her "Don't Know Why" was 2002's Record of the Year | 68 |
| Her "Collected Poems" won the 1952 Pulitzer | 53 |