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Pilgrim to Mecca (5)
HADJI
Titular comic strip character from the A.D. 800s (5)
HAGAR
Osaka assent (3)
HAI
One of Islam’s Five Pillars (3)
HAJ
Muslim who’s made the pilgrimage to Mecca (5)
HAJJI
Pitch Perfect actress ___ Mae Lee (4)
HANA
Franz’s partner in old “S.N.L.” sketches (4)
HANS
March ___ (4)
HARE
Marx brother with a curly wig (5)
HARPO
___ tweed (6)
HARRIS
Overbearing arrogance (7)
HAUTEUR
___ Code (movie censorship standard, 1934-68) (4)
HAYS
Personal theory that isn’t in the source material (9)
HEADCANON
Backstory filled in by a fan’s imagination (9)
HEADCANON
Where Lear exclaims “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!” (5)
HEATH
Actress Anne of “Wag the Dog” (5)
HECHE
“Algiers” star Lamarr (4)
HEDY
Lamar of old film (4)
HEDY
Dickens’s Uriah ___ (4)
HEEP
Pajama-clad figure on E’s “The Girls Next Door” (3)
HEF
“Science of Logic” philosopher (5)
HEGEL
Sister of Castor and Pollux (5)
HELEN
Greek goddess of marriage (4)
HERA
Actor ___ Villechaize of “Fantasy Island” (5)
HERVE
Repeated sound that’s hard to get rid of (3)
HIC
Hurried, quantily (4)
HIED
Game show host John Michael (7)
HIGGINS
Frost (4)
HOAR
Whitening, from agent (4)
HOAR
Capital of Tasmania (6)
HOBART
Canterbury cooktops (4)
HOBS
Large wine cask (8)
HOGSHEAD
Police captain on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (4)
HOLT
Pueblo people of the Southwest (4)
HOPI
“Mountain of God,” in Exodus (5)
HOREB
Members of the genus Vespa (7)
HORNETS
Rip off (4)
HOSE
Longdon dunderhead (5)
HOSER
Stable resident, in dialect (4)
HOSS
Shade-tolerant perennial (5)
HOSTA
“The Empire Strikes Back” setting with a Yeti-looking monster (4)
HOTH
Playing card eponym (5)
HOYLE
Menopause treatment, for short (3)
HRT
Red ___ (spicy candies) (4)
HUTS