| Like a used barbecue pit | 24 |
| Like a used car | 15 |
| Like a used drum | 16 |
| Like a used fireplace | 21 |
| Like a used paperback, perhaps | 30 |
| Like a used pencil | 18 |
| Like a useful knife | 19 |
| Like a useless battery | 22 |
| Like a useless gas tank | 23 |
| Like a useless photo lab employee? | 34 |
| Like a USN volunteer | 20 |
| Like a V.P. | 11 |
| Like a vacant apartment | 23 |
| Like a vacant rental apartment | 30 |
| Like a vacuum or the moon | 25 |
| Like a valedictory | 18 |
| Like a valid defense | 20 |
| Like a vampire's victims | 28 |
| Like a van Gogh "Night" | 33 |
| Like a variety of sheep | 23 |
| Like a Vatican chapel | 21 |
| Like a vaudevillian villain | 27 |
| Like a vault | 12 |
| Like a VCR after a power outage | 31 |
| Like a vegan's "live food" | 40 |
| Like a vegetarian's diet | 28 |
| Like a venetian blind | 21 |
| Like a venomous snake | 21 |
| Like a Verdi work | 17 |
| Like a vermouth | 15 |
| Like a versatile wardrobe | 25 |
| Like a versatile wardrobe, slangily | 35 |
| Like a very angry mob | 21 |
| Like a very low-watt bulb | 25 |
| Like a very old movie | 21 |
| Like a very rare day in hell | 28 |
| Like a very small town | 22 |
| Like a very successful comedian | 31 |
| Like a very violent film | 24 |
| Like a vestigial organ | 22 |
| Like a victim at a crime scene where the M.E. is called in | 58 |
| Like a victim of calumny | 24 |
| Like a victim of one too many | 29 |
| Like a Victoria's Secret model | 34 |
| Like a Victorian street | 23 |
| Like a videotape that's ready to be played | 46 |
| Like a villain | 14 |
| Like a villain's grin | 25 |
| Like a vine-covered wall | 24 |
| Like a vinegar radical | 22 |
| Like a violent pirate movie? | 28 |
| Like a violet leaf | 18 |
| Like a violin bow | 17 |
| Like a violist's clef | 25 |
| Like a viral video star's trajectory | 40 |
| Like a vireo | 12 |
| Like a virgin | 13 |
| Like a virgin? | 14 |
| Like a virgule | 14 |
| Like a visit from Benedict XVI | 30 |
| Like a visit from Benedict XVI, e.g. | 36 |
| Like a visit from Francis | 25 |
| Like a vista | 12 |
| Like a visually impaired Arctic traveler? | 41 |
| Like a vitamin in the shape of Wilma Flintstone | 47 |
| Like a volatile economy | 23 |
| Like a volcano | 14 |
| Like a volcano's output | 27 |
| Like a volume measurement | 25 |
| Like a von Webern composition | 29 |
| Like a vulnerable link | 22 |
| Like a vulture, compared to a swan | 34 |
| Like a wag | 10 |
| Like a wagon trail | 18 |
| Like a waif | 11 |
| Like a waif or wafer | 20 |
| Like a wailing cat | 18 |
| Like a wailing whale? | 21 |
| Like a wake | 11 |
| Like a wake-up time on an alarm clock | 37 |
| Like a walk in the park | 23 |
| Like a wallflower | 17 |
| Like a walrus | 13 |
| Like a waltz | 12 |
| Like a war dance | 16 |
| Like a war hero's chest | 27 |
| Like a ward for some new hospital patients | 42 |
| Like a warm bed on a cold winter's night | 44 |
| Like a warm bed on a winter night | 33 |
| Like a warm day in winter, perhaps | 34 |
| Like a warm nest | 16 |
| Like a warm-up exercise, comparatively speaking | 47 |
| Like a warty hopper | 19 |
| Like a Washington and Lee student | 33 |
| Like a washrag | 14 |
| Like a wasp's nest | 22 |
| Like a wasteland | 16 |
| Like a watch with hands | 23 |
| Like a watchdog | 15 |
| Like a water shrew's feet | 29 |