| Like the first leg of a triathlon | 33 |
| Like the first of May or the end of June? | 41 |
| Like the first sprinter to leave the blocks | 43 |
| Like the first stage of a car wash | 34 |
| Like the five films in this puzzle's theme? | 47 |
| Like the floor of an auto repair shop | 37 |
| Like the Florida Straits, rarely | 32 |
| Like the food in a fruitarian's diet | 40 |
| Like the food in the back of the fridge, maybe | 46 |
| Like the game's final batter | 32 |
| Like the game, to Sherlock Holmes | 33 |
| Like the glass in church windows | 32 |
| Like the government outlined in the Constitution | 48 |
| Like the Grand Canyon or Fourth of July fireworks | 49 |
| Like the grass on the other side, in a saying | 45 |
| Like the greatest show on earth? | 32 |
| Like the ground after a campfire | 32 |
| Like the group after a round of musical chairs | 46 |
| Like the hands of a praying person, often | 41 |
| Like the head on a glass of beer | 32 |
| Like the heart during a horror movie | 36 |
| Like the highest point in an orbit | 34 |
| Like the highway with the most lanes | 36 |
| Like The Hollies' ''Woman'' | 47 |
| Like the horse that concealed an army | 37 |
| Like the human genome, before the 1990s | 39 |
| Like the idea behind this puzzle's theme? | 45 |
| Like the infant in Jaques' speech | 37 |
| Like the inside of a closed refrigerator | 40 |
| Like the interior of a medium steak | 35 |
| Like the Jets, in "West Side Story" | 45 |
| Like the job you've always wanted | 37 |
| Like the joke about the Iowa farmer? | 36 |
| Like the kid who rarely gets hand-me-downs | 42 |
| Like the knuckles of the nervous | 32 |
| Like the lama, but not the llama, in a Nash poem | 48 |
| Like the lamp in the Hanukkah story | 35 |
| Like the land that includes Monument Valley | 43 |
| Like the languages Hebrew and Somali | 36 |
| Like the Las Vegas strip, at night | 34 |
| Like the last Beatles concert, 1969 | 35 |
| Like the league's top players | 33 |
| Like the leaves of a trailing arbutus | 37 |
| Like the length of many summer school classes | 45 |
| Like the lenses on some granny glasses | 38 |
| Like the letter "b," say | 34 |
| Like the lifestyle of many a monk | 33 |
| Like the lion from one of Hercules's labors | 47 |
| Like the little kid inside some of us? | 38 |
| Like the lowest common denominator | 34 |
| Like the M4 carbine, for the US Armed Forces | 44 |
| Like the majority of Interstate highways | 40 |
| Like the majority of the numbers in a sudoku | 44 |
| Like the man in a Hemingway title | 33 |
| Like the man of one's dreams | 32 |
| Like the man on one of the tarot cards | 38 |
| Like the Marquis de Sade or the Duke of Earl | 44 |
| Like the Marx Brothers in a 1935 film | 37 |
| Like the Marx Brothers' comedies | 36 |
| Like the meek and the poor in spirit | 36 |
| Like the meek, according to the Bible | 37 |
| Like the meteorologist with a short fuse? | 41 |
| Like the Mets in every season from 1962 to 1965 | 47 |
| Like the midafternoon hours, typically | 38 |
| Like the milieu of the chambered nautilus | 41 |
| Like the Minnow's passengers | 32 |
| Like the Minutemen at the bridge | 32 |
| Like the minutes before recess, seemingly | 41 |
| Like the models in a swimsuit issue | 35 |
| Like the Monitor or the Merrimack | 33 |
| Like the moon's atmosphere, pretty much | 43 |
| Like the moon, in real estate terms | 35 |
| Like the most daring trapeze stunts | 35 |
| Like the most expensive chopped meat | 36 |
| Like the most expensive hamburger meat | 38 |
| Like the most fragile of cookies | 32 |
| Like the most impressive records | 32 |
| Like the most overcast skies in London | 38 |
| Like the most secure passports nowadays | 39 |
| Like the most valuable baseball cards, e.g. | 43 |
| Like the movie "Adaptation" | 37 |
| Like the movie "Airplane!" | 36 |
| Like the music in "Turkey in the Straw" | 49 |
| Like the music of Mingus or Monk | 32 |
| Like the mythical apple of discord | 34 |
| Like the N.B.A.'s Jason Collins, notably | 44 |
| Like the N.B.A.'s Rod Strickland | 36 |
| Like the name "Bryn Mawr" | 35 |
| Like the New York metropolitan area | 35 |
| Like the New York Yankees, historically | 39 |
| Like the newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat | 34 |
| Like the night in a classic Van Gogh work | 41 |
| Like the North Pole before Peary | 32 |
| Like the north side of some rocks | 33 |
| Like the north sides of some trees | 34 |
| Like the north wind or Northern Lights | 38 |
| Like the novel "Gadsby" | 33 |
| Like the number 8, to the Chinese | 33 |
| Like the number system in which 77 + 1 = 100 | 44 |
| Like the numbers dos, cuatro, seis, ocho, etc. | 46 |