| Like a flat tire | 16 |
| Like a flattened ball | 21 |
| Like a flâneur | 17 |
| Like a flea-market Gucci, probably | 34 |
| Like a fleabag | 14 |
| Like a flight path | 18 |
| Like a flimsy metal | 19 |
| Like a flivver | 14 |
| Like a flophouse | 16 |
| Like a flower at its most beautiful | 35 |
| Like a flower part | 18 |
| Like a flu sufferer | 19 |
| Like a flu sufferer, often | 26 |
| Like a flue | 11 |
| Like a fly ball off the foul pole | 33 |
| Like a fly ball that hits the foul pole, ironically | 51 |
| Like a fly reel | 15 |
| Like a fly's path | 21 |
| Like a foggy graveyard | 22 |
| Like a fogy | 11 |
| Like a foil | 11 |
| Like a folk tale | 16 |
| Like a foot waking up | 21 |
| Like a football | 15 |
| Like a football crowd | 21 |
| Like a football field, naturally | 32 |
| Like a football shoe | 20 |
| Like a football, at times | 25 |
| Like a footsie player | 21 |
| Like a forceful leader | 22 |
| Like a foreboding sky | 21 |
| Like a forest | 13 |
| Like a forest of firs | 21 |
| Like a forest setting | 21 |
| Like a forgotten houseplant | 27 |
| Like a forgotten library book | 29 |
| Like a fork | 11 |
| Like a fork or a trident | 24 |
| Like a formal affair | 20 |
| Like a former 97-pound weakling? | 32 |
| Like a formerly asleep foot | 27 |
| Like a fortified castle | 23 |
| Like a foundling | 16 |
| Like a four-leaf clover | 23 |
| Like a fox | 10 |
| Like a fox, it's said | 25 |
| Like a fox? | 11 |
| Like a foxglove | 15 |
| Like a fraction of some incomes | 31 |
| Like a frame in which a strike or spare isn't bowled | 56 |
| Like a frank conversation | 25 |
| Like a frantically waving receiver | 34 |
| Like a free agent | 17 |
| Like a freezer free of Häagen-Dazs? | 38 |
| Like a French twist | 19 |
| Like a frequent flip-flopper | 28 |
| Like a fresh brownie | 20 |
| Like a fresh cake | 17 |
| Like a fresh cracker | 20 |
| Like a fresh salad | 18 |
| Like a fresh start | 18 |
| Like a fresh-air fiend's window | 35 |
| Like a fresh-smelling lawn | 26 |
| Like a freshly drawn draft | 26 |
| Like a freshly prepped baseball mitt, perhaps | 45 |
| Like a freshly shaven face | 26 |
| Like a friar | 12 |
| Like a friar's food | 23 |
| Like a Friday crossword | 23 |
| Like a friend in need | 21 |
| Like a friend to the end? | 25 |
| Like a friendly dog's tail | 30 |
| Like a frightened cat's back | 32 |
| Like a Frisbee's symmetry | 29 |
| Like a frog | 11 |
| Like a fruitcake | 16 |
| Like a fruitcake, in more ways than one | 39 |
| Like a frump | 12 |
| Like a frustrating situation | 28 |
| Like a fuddy-duddy | 18 |
| Like a fugitive | 15 |
| Like a fugue | 12 |
| Like a fulfilled order | 22 |
| Like a furious fellow's face | 32 |
| Like a fussbudget | 17 |
| Like a fuzzy computer image, informally | 39 |
| Like a G-rated movie | 20 |
| Like a G-string, sometimes | 26 |
| Like a G.I. peeling potatoes | 28 |
| Like a G.I. peeling spuds | 25 |
| Like a gag | 10 |
| Like a gala | 11 |
| Like a gale | 11 |
| Like a galley | 13 |
| Like a game at the Astrodome | 28 |
| Like a game ending in double overtime, say | 42 |
| Like a game going into overtime | 31 |
| Like a game going into sudden death | 35 |
| Like a game heading into extra innings | 38 |
| Like a game heading into overtime | 33 |