| He said “Media is the plural of mediocre†| 53 |
| Hipsters who prefer old-school programming languages? | 53 |
| His first comedy album was "I Am Not Homer" | 53 |
| Herb that supposedly improves one's immune system | 53 |
| He should have written "Green Eggs and Ham" | 53 |
| How most reading is done, and this puzzle's title | 53 |
| Hereditary information of an arboretum's species? | 53 |
| Hugo play that inspired a similarly named Verdi opera | 53 |
| Hall of Fame Celtic whose initials are his given name | 53 |
| His epitaph reads, "That's all, folks!" | 53 |
| He spent December 25, 1991 resigning as head of state | 53 |
| Hot Hot Heat "Make Up the Breakdown" single | 53 |
| Half of a murderous pair in a Frank Capra movie title | 53 |
| Hidden help for one who's trying to quit smoking? | 53 |
| He should have starred in "The Deer Hunter" | 53 |
| Heartwarming scene in a war movie? [1986, 1992, 1978] | 53 |
| Hydrocortisone cream from Palindromic Products, Inc.? | 53 |
| Host of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" | 53 |
| He played the president in "Murder at 1600" | 53 |
| He played himself in "Being John Malkovich" | 53 |
| HIGH ROLLER'S CRY (and a timely phrase for today) | 53 |
| Home to some notable cast-iron architecture in N.Y.C. | 53 |
| Hit for Guy Lombardo in 1937 and Jimmy Dorsey in 1957 | 53 |
| Honorific that's Sanskrit for "majesty" | 53 |
| Hits hard, as a fly (in the insect or baseball sense) | 53 |
| Hardy’s “Pure Woman Faithfully Presented” | 53 |
| Hanna-Barbera production of the 70's and 90's | 53 |
| He co-wrote "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" | 53 |
| Half-human counselor on "Star Trek: T.N.G." | 53 |
| Having a market value below its book value, as a loan | 53 |
| Hoagy Carmichael lyric "___ lazy river ..." | 53 |
| Holder of a "leaf-fringed legend," to Keats | 53 |
| Half-score from a court gp. that yours truly defames? | 53 |
| Hagen who wrote "A Challenge for the Actor" | 53 |
| He looked at her closely, then asked "...?" | 53 |
| Hitler's blitzkreig theory was based on the _____ | 53 |
| He said "Fear is the path to the dark side" | 53 |
| He played Max Bialystock in "The Producers" | 53 |
| Hero who helped Odysseus recover Achilles's body | 52 |
| He played Jimmy's "West Wing" opponent | 52 |
| He played Arnold Vinick on "The West Wing" | 52 |
| Her creation became a national emblem: June 14, 1777 | 52 |
| Head of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee | 52 |
| His #4 hangs from the ceiling of TD Banknorth Garden | 52 |
| Hank Schrader's org. on "Breaking Bad" | 52 |
| He joined Pizarro in the conquest of the Inca Empire | 52 |
| He shared the 1933 Physics Nobel with Schrödinger | 52 |
| Husband's "residence" when in disfavor | 52 |
| Honor attained by this puzzle's nine celebrities | 52 |
| Haydn's ''The Creation'' setting | 52 |
| He played John Glenn in 1983 and John McCain in 2012 | 52 |
| He played a chauvinistic shoe salesman for ten years | 52 |
| Holmes mantra, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 52 |
| His Super Bowl MVP performance was his last NFL game | 52 |
| He's known for shouting ''Bam!'' | 52 |
| He composed "the Microsoft Sound" on a Mac | 52 |
| Hockey legend also nicknamed "Trader Phil" | 52 |
| High-quality salad topping, in Rachael Ray shorthand | 52 |
| Hall of Fame pitcher known as "Bullet Bob" | 52 |
| He shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hertz | 52 |
| Humphrey Bogart's "High Sierra" costar | 52 |
| Harry James's "___ the Craziest Dream" | 52 |
| Hymn "Dies ___" ("Day of Wrath") | 52 |
| Hip-hop mogul, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 52 |
| Hit for The Pointer Sisters, Van Halen or Kris Kross | 52 |
| Hot place to throw the pot once you've thrown it | 52 |
| He's friends with Stan on "South Park" | 52 |
| He was advised "To thine own self be true" | 52 |
| Heroine of Zona Gale's "Faint Perfume" | 52 |
| Heroine in Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers" | 52 |
| He's on the back of Missouri's state quarter | 52 |
| Honorary deg. that Harvard awarded George Washington | 52 |
| Harvard University Press's ___ Classical Library | 52 |
| Hubbard, founder of the Dianetic Research Foundation | 52 |
| Hannah of ''Hannah and Her Sisters'' | 52 |
| He prophesied the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem | 52 |
| Home to da Vinci's "L'Ultima Cena" | 52 |
| Honoree of a D.C. monument at 1964 Independence Ave. | 52 |
| Home of "Christina's World," for short | 52 |
| Highly hyped N.L. pitcher Stephen Strasburg, for one | 52 |
| Hard-up Collective Soul song off "Dosage"? | 52 |
| Hard up Collective Soul song off "Dosage"? | 52 |
| He had a thing for Trinity in "The Matrix" | 52 |
| Hook two balloons together at the end, bend slightly | 52 |
| Herman T. Zweibel's weekly, with "The" | 52 |
| Homer put one on Marge's finger when he proposed | 52 |
| Her first single was (aptly) "Mrs. Lennon" | 52 |
| Heroine of ''Because of Winn-Dixie'' | 52 |
| Her full name anagrams to "horny rap wife" | 52 |
| Host with a self-proclaimed "No Spin Zone" | 52 |
| Hepburn's "The Lion in Winter" co-star | 52 |
| He wrote ''To be loved, be lovable'' | 52 |
| Historic city badly damaged in the Spanish Civil War | 52 |
| Host of 1950s TV's "Bank on the Stars" | 52 |
| Historic site in Texas (first battle of Mexican War) | 52 |
| Hallucinogens formerly used for anesthesia, in brief | 52 |
| He sang "Beauty and the Beast" with Celine | 52 |
| Home of the U.N.'s Javier Pérez de Cuéllar | 52 |
| Half of the duo on the album "You Eediot!" | 52 |
| He wrote "The Making of an American": 1901 | 52 |