| Like the characters in Christie's "The Mousetrap" | 63 |
| Like the children in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" | 58 |
| Like the city known as "the Cradle of Gold" | 53 |
| Like the contestant who came in 699 out of 699 entrants, initially | 66 |
| Like the Cowardly Lion at the end of "The Wizard of Oz" | 65 |
| Like the crew of TV's "Deadliest Catch," often | 60 |
| Like the diving end of a pool vis-Ã -vis the other end | 56 |
| Like the drummer for rock's Def Leppard, amazingly | 54 |
| Like the elbow of Rodin's "The Thinker"? | 54 |
| Like the ending of ''Romeo and Juliet'' | 55 |
| Like the fighters in the Ultimate Fighting Championship | 55 |
| Like the figure formed by the three circled letters at the bottom | 65 |
| Like the figure formed by the three circled letters in the upper left | 69 |
| Like the film "Henry & June" (and this puzzle) | 60 |
| Like the finale of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto | 52 |
| Like the first two "Brandenburg" Concertos | 52 |
| Like the forest in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | 60 |
| Like the forest in Longfellow's "Evangeline" | 58 |
| Like the four theme entries in this puzzle, as it were | 54 |
| Like the German "die" and French "la" | 57 |
| Like the house this puzzle's subject couldn't destroy | 61 |
| Like the identified car models inside this puzzle's long answers | 68 |
| Like the Irkutsk and Yakutsk territories on a Risk board | 56 |
| Like the items shown on "Antiques Roadshow" | 53 |
| Like the Jets in ''West Side Story'' | 52 |
| Like the kiddie rides at a park, relatively speaking | 52 |
| Like the letter E in this entire puzzle's solution | 54 |
| Like the magic pebble in "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble" | 67 |
| Like the main character of "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" | 67 |
| Like the most remote location, to a shivering cold person? | 58 |
| Like the movies "10,000 B.C." and "2012" | 60 |
| Like the northern Antilles Islands vis-Ã -vis the southern ones | 65 |
| Like the northern Lesser Antilles, vis-Ã -vis the Windward Islands | 68 |
| Like the numbers of interstates that run north-south | 52 |
| Like the old mare that "ain't what she used to be" | 64 |
| Like the opening of several Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies | 54 |
| Like the opening of the "Moonlight Sonata" | 52 |
| Like the origin of the food in many fusion restaurants | 54 |
| Like the origin of the names for some days of the week | 54 |
| Like the perfect working relationship of lazy, lusty, greedy people? | 68 |
| Like the person in a diet ad "after" picture | 54 |
| Like the philosophy "Out with the old, in with the new"? | 66 |
| Like the score for the first play of a Scrabble game | 52 |
| Like the skies in Bob Dylan's "Mozambique" | 56 |
| Like the Souphanousinphone family on "King of the Hill" | 65 |
| Like the stables cleaned by Hercules in a single day | 52 |
| Like the stranger in Camus's "The Stranger" | 57 |
| Like the three marriages described in the theme answers | 55 |
| Like the vbs. "creep" and "weep" | 52 |
| Like the verb "be" in many languages: Abbr. | 53 |
| Like the verbs "cast" and "cost": Abbr. | 59 |
| Like the verbs "come" and "go": Abbr. | 57 |
| Like the victims in "Arsenic and Old Lace" | 52 |
| Like the watches in "The Persistence of Memory" | 57 |
| Like the water in inflatable kiddie pools, typically | 52 |
| Like the wicked stepsisters vis-‡-vis Cinderella | 52 |
| Like the winner in a number-guessing contest, perhaps | 53 |
| Like the witness in the Harrison Ford movie "Witness" | 63 |
| Like the word "curiae" in "amicus curiae" | 61 |
| Like the words "hoagie" and "kitty-corner" | 62 |
| Like the worst guests you wished you hadn't invited | 55 |
| Like things in "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" | 58 |
| Like Tom Hanks's character in "Cast Away" | 55 |
| Like two-thirds of the numbers in the Fibonacci sequence | 56 |
| Like ultra-colorful paintings of mushrooms and butterflies, perhaps | 67 |
| Like Victor Hugo when he finished "Les Misérables" | 63 |
| Like Virginia among states to ratify the Constitution | 53 |
| Like virtually all gold medalists in Olympic table tennis | 57 |
| Like water or paint that won't give you brain damage | 56 |
| Like wiping one's dirty mouth on one's sleeve | 53 |
| Like yards containing almost ten thousand square yards | 54 |
| Like yellow-green and red-orange, on the color wheel | 52 |
| Like your chances after hearing "fat chance," ironically | 66 |
| Likely response to "More monkey brain stew?" | 54 |
| Likely response to "Who wears short shorts?" | 54 |
| Likely result of failing a Breathalyzer test, briefly | 53 |
| Likely road for this puzzle's big wheels to travel? | 55 |
| Lila Quartermaine portrayer on "General Hospital" | 59 |
| Lila ___, Oscar winner for "Zorba the Greek" | 54 |
| Lilian Jackson Braun's "The Cat Who Smelled ___" | 62 |
| Lilian Jackson ___ ("The Cat Who ..." mystery writer) | 63 |
| Lillian of ''The Night of the Hunter'' | 54 |
| Limbaugh said she was "George McGovern on hormones" | 61 |
| Limerick, part five: "But I'd rather eat ___" | 59 |
| Limerick, part one: "There was a young lass ___" | 58 |
| Limerick, part two: "Who lived in a bright ___" | 57 |
| Limited editions of "The Civil War: A Narrative"? | 59 |
| Limited furnace work that sounds like major furnace work? | 57 |
| Lincoln & Weissmuller; Markey & O'Sullivan | 54 |
| Lincoln player in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" | 53 |
| Lincoln who some scholars suggest might have been gay | 53 |
| Linda of Broadway's "Jekyll & Hyde" | 53 |
| Line after Casca's "Speak, hands, for me!" | 56 |
| Line from ''Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas'' | 68 |
| Line from ''Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!'' | 68 |
| Line from ''Santa Claus is Coming to Town'' | 59 |
| Line from "All Quiet on the Western Front"? | 53 |
| Line from "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" | 60 |
| Line from Metallica's "Until It Sleeps" | 53 |
| Line in "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" | 54 |