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- Heroic tale of romance
- Hershey toffee bar
- "Hey ...!"
- "Hey there!"
- [Hey you!]
- "Hey! I know the answer!"
- "Hey! Over here!"
- "Hey, doing my best"
- [Hey, I can hear you, you know]
- "Hey, look who's here!"
- "Hey, sailor!"
- HHH
- [Hi-lar-ious!]
- Hibernation spots
- Hide
- Hideout
- Hides
- "___-high by the Fourth of July" (corn farmer's adage)
- High degrees, for short
- High number, perhaps
- "High" time
- High-end private jet, familiarly
- High-fat diet, informally
- High-five, e.g.
- High-protein bean
- High-protein paste
- High-speed Olympic sport
- Highest number in sudoku
- Highest-scoring Scrabble word with four tiles (22)
- Highlight ___
- Hightailed it
- Highway attention-getter
- Highway behemoth
- Highway division
- Highway off-ramp
- Highway, e.g.
- Hilarious person
- Hilton competitor
- Himalayan herbivores
- Himalayan menace
- Hindu counterpart of Eros
- Hindu deity depicted with four arms
- Hindu festival of colors
- Hint
- Hippie happening
- Hired soldier, in slang
- Historian's focus
- Historian's segments
- Historic Bulgarian ruler
- Historic event the French call "le jour J"
- Historic Normandy date
- Historic periods
- Historical Dutch settler
- Hit 1975 film shot largely on location in Martha's Vineyard
- Hit 2021 film shot in the same location as "Lawrence of Arabia" and "The Martian"
- Hit 22, say
- Hit a ___
- Hit a point of no return?
- Hit maker?
- Hit the horn
- Hit the mall
- Hit TV series set at the fictional William McKinley High School
- Hit's counterpart
- Hitch up on a farm
- Hitches
- Hitchhiker's hope
- Hits hard
- Hits the "15%" or "20%" button, say
- Hits the mark, in a way
- "Hmm ... I pass"
- "Hmm ... pass"
- Hoarse voice
- Hoax
- "Hold ___ your hat!"
- Hold it!
- Hold on to
- "Hold this"
- Hold up well
- Holders of hammers and anvils
- Holders of nets
- "Holesome" figures
- Holiday preceders
- Hollywood workplaces
- Hollywood's Johnny
- "Holy Moses!"
- Home for a nest
- Home for doves or pigeons
- Home improvement site, after a 2021 rebranding
- Home in the woods
- Home loan overhaul, in brief
- Home of a "500" race, familiarly
- Home of Brunei and Bhutan
- Home of Canyonlands National Park
- Home of Columbus
- Home of County Donegal
- Home of Qatar Airways
- Home of the Big 12's Cyclones
- Home of the Leaning Tower
- Home of the National Automobile Museum
- Home of the Road to Hana, whose 64-mile length contains more than 600 curves
- Home of the W.N.B.A.'s Fever, informally
- Home of War in the Pacific National Historical Park
- Home of Xenia, the U.S.'s largest city whose name starts with "X"
- Home run hitter's gait
- Home services website
- Home to a majority of people
- Home to Capitol Reef National Park, which surprisingly is not by the ocean
- Home to Hanoi and Hong Kong
- Home to Waikiki Beach
- Home's opposite, on scoreboards
- Homeowner's proof of purchase
- Homer Simpson's watering hole
- Homie
- Honda or Hyundai
- Honest-to-goodness
- Honey ___ (brand of graham crackers)
- Honeybee genus
- *Honeybunch
- Honorific meaning "elder brother"
- Honorific title
- Honoré de Balzac's "___ Goriot"
- Hons
- Hoodwink
- Hoofbeat
- Hook for a newspaper article
- Hook or Cook: Abbr.
- Hooked on
- Hoop alternative
- Hoopsters might hang on to them
- Hoot
- Hoot or holler
- Hoppy beers, for short
- Hoppy brews, for short
- Horned mountain climber
- Horned vipers
- Horror movie staple
- Horse with a muted coat
- Horse with a reddish coat
- "Horsefeathers!"
- Horses studied by touts
- Hose fillers
- Hospital count
- Hostile manner, informally
- Hot
- Hot environment
- Hot pair
- Hot stuff
- Hotel booking
- Hotel listing
- Hotel room pricing
- Hotel worker
- Hourly pay rate
- "House" actress Ward
- "How can this be?!"
- How Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic in 1927
- How much 1990s music was issued
- How one might feel at a support group meeting
- How the car in this puzzle's theme would be sold
- How you might wake up after sleeping funny
- Howard who wrote "A People's History of the United States"
- "Howards End" daughter
- However, in a text
- Huff
- Huff and puff
- Huge fan, in slang
- Huggers
- "Hugs and kisses" sign-off
- "Huh?"
- Hullabaloo
- Human rights lawyer Clooney
- Humans : Homo :: bees : ___
- Humorist Bombeck
- Hunk
- Hunk of marble, e.g.
- Hunter's attire, informally
- "Hunters" actress Lena
- Hurdle for a J.D.-to-be
- Hurdle for an aspiring atty.
- Hurdle for prospective attys.
- "Hurry!"
- Hurt all over
- Husky hellos?
- Hustle
- Hyatt alternative
- "Hyde and ___" (1955 Bugs Bunny short)
- Hydrox lookalike
- Hyperbolic amount of work
- "I ___ bored!"
- "I ___ even!" (modern complaint)
- "I ___ you!"
- "___ I a Woman?" (Sojourner Truth speech)
- "I bought this before ___ went crazy" (rueful bumper sticker on a Tesla)
- "I can't ___!"
- "I can't catch a break!"
- "I could be wrong, but ...," for short
- "I don't really care / If ya think I'm strange / I ___ gonna change": Joan Jett
- "I guess so"
- [I have something to say ...]
- "I need this immediately"
- "I see"
- "I smell trouble ...!"
- "I suppose so"
- "I wasn't ___ yesterday"
- "I'll deal with this right now!"
- "I'm in trouble!"
- "I'm in!"
- "I'm listening"
- "I'm so frustrated!"
- [I'm standing right here!]
- "I'm this-a way!"
- "I've got this"
- I.R.A. classification
- Ian : Scotland :: ___ : Wales
- Ian who portrayed Bilbo Baggins
- "Ibis" poet
- Ice cream brand that's a cousin of Dreyer's
- Ice cream brand with an apostrophe in its name
- Ice cream drink
- Ice cream holder
- Icebreaker, e.g.
- Iceland is its only member that doesn't have a standing army
- Icon on an online shop
- Iconic bit of NPR merch
- Iconic film character with a fedora hat, familiarly
- Iconic hairstyle of Jane Fonda and Stevie Nicks
- Iconic lab assistant of film
- Identify
- Ides of March rebuke
- Iditarod conveyance
- Idle
- Idly look (through)
- ___ idol
- Idris of "A House of Dynamite"
- "If all ___ fails …"
- "If I ___ a Carpenter"
- "If the ___ fits, wear it!"
- "If you ___ stand the heat ..."
- Ignominious failure
- Ijeoma ___, "Be a Revolution" author
- Ilhan in Congress
- Ilhan of Congress
- Ilk
- Ill-considered
- Ill-humored
- Ill-mannered
- Illegal thing to jump
- Illustrator of the Tammany tiger
- Image problem?
- Image that might accompany the words "That feeling when ..."
- Imaginary cause of fear
- Imbroglio
- "Immediately!"
- Immodest
- Impediments to collaboration
- Important figure on staff?
- Important stretches
- Important travel info, in brief
- Impose, as a tax
- Impressive work
- Impressively accurate pass, in football slang
- Improve
- Improvisational vocal style
- Improvise, in jazz
- Impudence
- Impudent sort
- In "The Tempest," when Miranda says "O brave new world, That has such people in't!"
- In ___ land (daydreaming)
- In ___ of
- "In ___ of gifts ..."
- In a frenzy
- In a minute
- In addition
- In amongst
- In case
- "___ in doubt ..."
- In need of a massage, say
- In one's birthday suit
- In perpetuity
- In stitches
- "In summary ...," in internet shorthand
- "In that case ..."
- "In that event …"
- "In that neighborhood"
- " … in that range"
- In the ___ (intensely focused)
- In the distance
- In the middle of a tussle
- In the past
- In the thick of
- In view
- In vogue
- In which to see the first light of day
- In-flight "perk" that's notoriously unstable
- Includes without others knowing, in a way
- Inconsequential
- Incur a cellphone surcharge, perhaps
- India's prime minister since 2014
- Indian bread
- Indian flatbread
- Indian royal
- Indian tourist city
- Indian wedding wear
- Indicator of an important email
- Indicators of awareness
- Indigenous Canadians of Labrador
- Indigo dye
- Indistinct speech
- Individually
- Indonesian getaway spot
- Industry showcase
- Infamous Roman ruler
- Infinitesimal amount
- Inflatable transport
- Inflation measures, for short
- Influence
- Influence on the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus"
- Influential individual
- Informal endorsements
- Informal get-together
- Informal shirts
- Information in a prescription
- Informed
- Infraction at an arcade
- Ingredient in some gels
- Ingredient in some mouthwashes
- Ingredient in some smoothie bowls
- Ingredient in some vegetable stock
- Ingrid Bergman's "Casablanca" role
- Initials on a map until 1991
- Injured
- Ink
- Inkling
- Innings : baseball :: ___ : curling
- Innocent sort
- Input of certain mining
- Inquires
- "Insecure" co-creator and star ___ Rae
- Inside the foul line, in baseball
- Insolence
- Insta and Snap
- Instagram : ___ :: YouTube : Short
- Instagram update
- Instants
- Instrument also called the "sprightly companion"
- Instrument depicted in paintings by Hals and Caravaggio
- Instrument originating in ancient Sumer
- Instrument played by a Muse
- Instrument ridge
- Instrument to which an orchestra tunes
- Instrument usually pitched in C
- Instrument with an iconic solo in Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight"
- Insult, metaphorically
- Insurance co. for military families
- Integral calculation
- Intel product
- Intense anger
- Interest of Marco Polo, with "the"
- Interlocking toy brand
- International footwear retailer based in Quebec
- International retailer with a three-syllable name
- Internet ___
- Internet addresses, for short
- Internet joke
- Intertwined
- Intl. group formed in 1949
- Intl. oil group
- "Into each life some ___ must fall": Longfellow
- Into oneself
- Introductory dissection subject
- Intruders in urban trash cans
- Intuitive sense
- Invented something, say
- Inventor and actress Lamarr
- Investment option, informally
- Invitation letters
- Invites
- Io or luna
- Iowa college town
- iPod model
- Ireland, to the Irish
- Iris holder
- Is behind
- "___ is great when you're hungry and you want 2,000 of something": Mitch Hedberg
- "___ is more" (paradoxical aphorism)
- "'___' is the thing with feathers" (Emily Dickinson poem)
- "Is the whole world against me?"
- Is underwater
- Isaac's favorite son
- Ish
- Islamic "commander"
- Islamic prayer leader
- Island chains
- Island location of Iolani Palace
- Island with Waikiki Beach
- Isle in Scotland's Inner Hebrides
- Isle that's the traditional burial site of Scottish kings
- "Ism" that might result from a schism
- Isn't feeling great
- Isn't keeping up
- Isn't oneself?
- Isn't perfect
- Isn't settled up
- Isn't wrong?
- Isolate, in corporate-speak
- Israeli P.M. before Rabin
- Istanbul native
- "It ___ easy"
- "It ___ that simple ..."
- "___ it and rip it!" (aggressive golfer's mantra)
- It comes and goes each day
- It comes to mind
- It didn't come with a calculator until 2024
- It gets you a hand
- It goes around in circles
- It has a trunk and branches
- It has Earth's highest and lowest points
- It has its highs and lows
- It has its limits, in brief
- It has its time and place: Abbr.
- It has its ups and downs
- It helps with server loads
- It is king, in a phrase
- It keeps the rain away
- It may be big or bright
- It may be found at the end of the line
- It may be hard to believe
- It may be padded or slapped
- It may drive one to distraction, in brief
- It may have a hard or soft shell
- It might be a lot
- It might be on a roll
- It might be paved with good intentions
- It might come after trig
- It might follow "ye"
- It might grow slowly on a face
- It might have many sides
- It might read "Miss Universe"
- It might wind up near a tackle box
- It offers a narrow point of view
- It runs hot
- It scratches the itch
- It trickles down an hourglass
- It was you
- It wasn't built in a day
- "It'll ___ ya"
- It'll take you for a ride
- It'll warm your buns
- It's "pumped" by bodybuilders
- It's "smashed" in a particle accelerator
- "It's ___ or nothin'!" (classic kids' commercial slogan)
- "It's ___ real"
- It's a gas
- It's a long story
- It's a lot!
- It's a numbers game
- "It's a shame, really!"
- It's all a haze
- It's all black and white
- It's an affront
- It's binding
- It's conditional
- It's cool to drink
- It's cut after birth
- It's driven into the ground
- "It's fun to stay at the ___" (1978 lyric)
- It's going downhill fast!
- [It's gone!]
- "It's gonna ___ you!"
- It's good for the long haul
- It's just under a foot
- It's not a full stop
- It's not hard!
- It's not optional
- It's on a roll
- It's over your head
- It's part of the job
- It's right around the present
- It's seen near a wrist
- "It's so clear," in slang
- It's sung in praise
- It's the thing
- It's usually followed by an "s"
- It's vera soothing!
- It's verboten
- It's west of the Bering Strait
- "It's yours!"
- Italian cooking staple, for short
- Italian hello
- Italian sparkling wine
- Italian volcano
- Italian wine city
- Italy's largest automaker
- Italy's third-largest island (after Sicily and Sardinia)
- Itches
- Item in a numismatist's collection
- Item purchased before proposing
- Items on an airport carousel
- Items sometimes chained to a desk
- Its alphabet starts with Alfa and ends with Zulu
- Its base unit is the kilogram
- Its license plate might read "FOR HIRE"
- Its motto is "Industry"
- Its products often include wordless assembly instructions
- Its tail blows in the wind
- Its three largest cities all have names starting with C
- Its website has a "Fantasy" tab
- Itty-bitty
- Itty-bitty insect
- Ivy in Philadelphia, familiarly
- Ivy League school in New Haven
- Ivy League school in Philly
- Ivy League school with a dolphin on its coat of arms, informally
- Ivy League school with a statue of Ben Franklin
- Jabba the ___ ("Star Wars" villain)
- Jabbers
- Jacket
- Jacket closer
- Jackie who co-starred in "Rush Hour"
- Jacob's brother in the Bible
- Jafar's parrot in "Aladdin"
- ___ Jail (space on a Monopoly board)
- Jailhouse weapon
- Jamaican folk song about dock work
- Jamaican style of preparing chicken
- James in the Blues Hall of Fame
- James in the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame
- James who wrote "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"
- Jamie with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Jane Austen title character
- Jane of Brit Lit
- Japan's national sport
- Japanese audio brand
- Japanese belts
- Japanese city known for its beef
- Japanese electronics giant
- Japanese noodle
- Jared of 2025's "Tron: Ares"
- Jaunty greeting
- Java ingredient?
- Jay ___, singer of the 2009 #1 hit "Down"
- Jay formerly of late-night TV
- Jay who hosted the 2020s revival of "You Bet Your Life"
- Jazz coda?
- Jazz drummer DeRosa
- Jazz great Anita
- Jazz great Fitzgerald
- Jazz singer Anita
- Jazz singer Sylvia
- Jazz site
- Jazz trumpeter Baker who was sometimes called the "Prince of Cool"
- Jazzy Fitzgerald
- "Je t'___" (French "I love you")
- "Je vous en ___" (French words of politeness)
- Jeers
- Jejune
- Jekyll's evil counterpart
- ___ jelly, popular boba tea topping
- Jennifer who won a Pulitzer for "A Visit From the Goon Squad"
- Jennifer who wrote "A Visit From the Goon Squad"
- Jerk
- Jessica of "Fantastic Four"
- Jessica of "The Better Sister"
- Jewish ceremony performed eight days after birth
- Jimmy ___ (high-end footwear brand)
- Jimmy known for shoes
- Jingle or ditty
- Joan known for his "dream paintings"
- Job for a detective
- Job for an actor
- Jobs announcement of 2010
- Joel's smuggling partner on "The Last of Us"
- John ___ Day (California commemoration)
- John ___, personification of Objectivism, for Ayn Rand
- John in the Radio Hall of Fame
- John of wrestling fame
- Join
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