| Higher on the repulsiveness scale | 33 |
| Higher power in "Star Wars" | 37 |
| Higher ranks by reason of longer service | 40 |
| Higher than it is wide, as a book | 33 |
| Higher than zero, on an altimeter | 33 |
| Higher-degree requirement, usually | 34 |
| Highest active volcano of Europe | 32 |
| Highest adult male singing voice | 32 |
| Highest and lowest black key on a piano | 39 |
| Highest black key on a standard piano | 37 |
| Highest grossing actress of the aughts | 38 |
| Highest mountain in the Americas | 32 |
| Highest mountain in the Rhaetian Alps | 37 |
| Highest mountain ranged in Antarctica | 37 |
| Highest musical note of yesteryear | 34 |
| Highest natural adult male voice | 32 |
| Highest North American peak, to natives | 39 |
| Highest note in Guido's scale | 33 |
| Highest of MLB's "minors" | 39 |
| Highest of the celestial hierarchy | 34 |
| Highest peak in Massachusetts, Mount ___ | 40 |
| Highest peak in the Calif. Cascades | 35 |
| Highest peak in the European Union | 34 |
| Highest peak in the Northwest Territories | 41 |
| Highest peak in the Philippines, briefly | 40 |
| Highest peak in the Philippines: Abbr. | 38 |
| Highest peak of the Bernese Alps | 32 |
| Highest peak on Africa's west coast | 39 |
| Highest place that one can reach | 32 |
| Highest place where trees grow, on a mountain | 45 |
| Highest point in a satellite's orbit | 40 |
| Highest point in the Calif. Cascades | 36 |
| Highest point on the Ohio & Erie Canal | 42 |
| Highest ranked, as a tourney entrant | 36 |
| Highest ranks among the Swiss Guard: Abbr. | 42 |
| Highest Russian territory, once? | 32 |
| Highest salaried baseball player | 32 |
| Highest score possible with a single dart | 41 |
| Highest trump card in the game five hundred | 43 |
| Highest-grossing black-and-white film of all time | 49 |
| Highest-grossing film of all time | 33 |
| Highest-grossing of a 2003-2010 horror franchise | 48 |
| Highest-paid baseball player of 1966 | 36 |
| Highest-paid TV actress of all time | 35 |
| Highest-ranking, in some hierarchies | 36 |
| Highest-rated science series on TV | 34 |
| Highlander's shoulder covering | 34 |
| Highlander's textile pattern | 32 |
| Highlands man's best friend? | 32 |
| Highlands site of many sightings | 32 |
| Highlight of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony | 43 |
| Highlight ___ (greatest hits for athletes) | 42 |
| Highlighted line on a map, briefly | 34 |
| Highlighted line on a map: Abbr. | 32 |
| Highlights from the Three Tenors | 32 |
| Highly compensated Yankee, casually | 35 |
| Highly emotional state often invoked as an alibi | 48 |
| Highly excited (with ''up'') | 44 |
| Highly excited (with "up") | 36 |
| Highly excited with anticipation | 32 |
| Highly explosive science fiction author? | 40 |
| Highly intelligent invertebrates | 32 |
| Highly paid shortstop, familiarly | 33 |
| Highly prized Japanese porcelain | 32 |
| Highly rhetorical shouts for attention? | 39 |
| Highly seismic area off the Greek coast | 39 |
| Highly sought-after grocery item | 32 |
| Highly successful, in Varietyese | 32 |
| Highly toxic environmental pollutants, for short | 48 |
| Highly valued asset, and this puzzle's title | 48 |
| Highly veined, as flies' wings | 34 |
| Highpointer's destination in Ore. | 37 |
| Highschooler's option: abbr. | 32 |
| Highsmith's amoral protagonist | 34 |
| Highway construction crew's supplies | 40 |
| Highway covered in "The Milepost" | 43 |
| Highway damaged by hurricane Katrina | 36 |
| Highway department supply in the Northeast | 42 |
| Highway division nearest the shoulder | 37 |
| Highway entrances and exits, typically | 38 |
| Highway flapjack sellers since '58 | 38 |
| Highway intersection arrangement | 32 |
| Highway maneuver in some movie chase scenes | 43 |
| Highway pileup that's attractively arranged? | 48 |
| Highway that runs through Williamsburg: Abbr. | 45 |
| Highway's counterpart in fuel economy | 41 |
| Hijacked cruise ship Achille ___ | 32 |
| Hiker's or biker's burden | 33 |
| Hiker's or student's bag | 32 |
| Hilarious Three Days Grace song? | 32 |
| Hilary of "The Lizzie McGuire Show" | 45 |
| Hilary played her in a 2009 biopic | 34 |
| Hilda and Zelda, to TV's Sabrina | 36 |
| Hill of "The West Wing" | 33 |
| Hill of the Clarence Thomas scandal | 35 |
| Hill of ___ (home to Ireland's Lia Fáil) | 47 |
| Hill of ___ (site near the Acropolis) | 37 |
| Hill often seen chasing hot young woman | 39 |
| Hill on "CBS This Morning" | 36 |
| Hill on which early Irish kings lived | 37 |