| Like a region with sparse rainfall | 34 |
| Like a relationship with a narcissist | 37 |
| Like a relative notified in an emergency, maybe | 47 |
| Like a remedy, to a letter writer? | 34 |
| Like a rendition of "Deck the Halls" | 46 |
| Like a responsible math teacher? | 32 |
| Like a restaurant that serves panang curry | 42 |
| Like a reversible jacket that's been reversed | 49 |
| Like a road section with a flagger, maybe | 41 |
| Like a roadway after an ice storm | 33 |
| Like a rock star's lifestyle | 32 |
| Like a rocker on tour too long, perhaps | 39 |
| Like a room at Schönbrunn Palace | 39 |
| Like a rout, for the losing team | 32 |
| Like a rowboat that's adrift | 32 |
| Like a rug that can only be cleaned once | 40 |
| Like a running back after a game | 32 |
| Like a rustic cabin on a cold night | 35 |
| Like a sailor avoiding the draft? | 33 |
| Like a Salmon P. Chase bill, slangily | 37 |
| Like a score of 10 of a possible 10 | 35 |
| Like a seaman's humor, stereotypically | 42 |
| Like a secret that's no longer secret | 41 |
| Like a seventh of the world's people | 40 |
| Like a Shakespearean "Ta-da!" | 39 |
| Like a ship at sea, to a hippie? | 32 |
| Like a ship trapped in the Arctic Ocean | 39 |
| Like a Siberian Husky's ears | 32 |
| Like a sighting of an ivory-billed woodpecker | 45 |
| Like a situation in which to avoid a sacrifice | 46 |
| Like a situation that could have been prevented | 47 |
| Like a size 8 blouse vis-Ã -vis a size 10 | 43 |
| Like a sleeping bag or a swimming pool | 38 |
| Like a small music or film company | 34 |
| Like a small, degenerate body part | 34 |
| Like a smaller Swiss Army knife, perhaps | 40 |
| Like a snake oil salesman's promise | 39 |
| Like a snake oil salesman, and then some | 40 |
| Like a snow angel maker, at times | 33 |
| Like a specially appointed committee | 36 |
| Like a specially formed committee | 33 |
| Like a spot in "Macbeth" | 34 |
| Like a stadium full of cheering fans | 36 |
| Like a stained shirt pocket, maybe | 34 |
| Like a Stallone or Wayne character | 34 |
| Like a starving artist, stereotypically | 39 |
| Like a stereotypical teenager's room | 40 |
| Like a stereotypically bad professor | 36 |
| Like a stomach after an all-you-can-eat buffet | 46 |
| Like a stone mound set up as a memorial | 39 |
| Like a story that can't be believed | 39 |
| Like a strawberry roan's coat | 33 |
| Like a street with an arrow sign | 32 |
| Like a stroller at the shore, shoewise | 38 |
| Like a style more about enlightenment than sex | 46 |
| Like a successful dieter's clothes | 38 |
| Like a successful dieter's old clothes | 42 |
| Like a sucker that makes you pucker | 35 |
| Like a sunset at the end of a movie | 35 |
| Like a super wussy punk rock kid | 32 |
| Like a superintendent's apartment, often | 44 |
| Like a superlatively sneaky sleuth? | 35 |
| Like a sure-to-succeed proposition | 34 |
| Like a swift and spectacular success | 36 |
| Like a Swiss Army knife, perhaps | 32 |
| Like a system of scientific meas. | 33 |
| Like a system of serfs and lords | 32 |
| Like a system with equal gains and losses | 41 |
| Like a tale of "the one that got away" | 48 |
| Like a tête-à -tête sofa | 32 |
| Like a teacher who lets you curse | 33 |
| Like a team that wins four, then loses three | 44 |
| Like a team that's ahead by a safety | 40 |
| Like a technology in development | 32 |
| Like a teenager on her first date | 33 |
| Like a teenager's room, stereotypically | 43 |
| Like a televangelist's show? | 32 |
| Like a tennis match without a break? | 36 |
| Like a tennis player's compliment? | 38 |
| Like a tense person's teeth? | 32 |
| Like a test with a properly corrected score? | 44 |
| Like a thing that can only improve | 34 |
| Like a three up, three down inning | 34 |
| Like a three-up, three-down inning | 34 |
| Like a thumb struck with a hammer | 33 |
| Like a tinkerer's kit, briefly | 34 |
| Like a tooth with a string tied to it | 37 |
| Like a town that used to be a ghost town | 40 |
| Like a transient's qtrs., maybe | 35 |
| Like a trap in need of resetting | 32 |
| Like a triangle with sides of different lengths | 47 |
| Like a truck on a steep hill, maybe | 35 |
| Like a tutor's lesson, often | 32 |
| Like a two-thirds majority in Congress | 38 |
| Like a typical Dilbert character | 32 |
| Like a typical Stephen King novel | 33 |
| Like a typical Stephen King tale | 32 |
| Like a universal donor's blood | 34 |
| Like a useless photo lab employee? | 34 |
| Like a van Gogh "Night" | 33 |