| Like Bustopher Jones of "Cats" | 40 |
| Like cabs on a rainy day, seemingly | 35 |
| Like Caesar's steak, perhaps | 32 |
| Like California's 17-Mile-Drive | 35 |
| Like calling a flight attendant a stewardess | 44 |
| Like calling a woman a "chick," say | 45 |
| Like calls from bill collectors, typically | 42 |
| Like calls whose source isn't determined | 44 |
| Like campers at night, typically | 32 |
| Like candlelight and flowers, say | 33 |
| Like candy near the register, maybe | 35 |
| Like Cannonball Adderley's sax | 34 |
| Like capital letters in many E. E. Cummings poems | 49 |
| Like Captain Nemo out in the Nautilus, e.g. | 43 |
| Like Carroll's 'borogoves' | 38 |
| Like carry-on luggage during takeoff and landing | 48 |
| Like cartoon "Melodies" | 33 |
| Like cases on "The X-Files" | 37 |
| Like Cate Blanchett or Geoffrey Rush | 36 |
| Like Catherine Zeta-Jones or Tom Jones | 38 |
| Like celebrities, much of the time | 34 |
| Like celestial bodies exhibiting syzygy | 39 |
| Like cenobites of the second century | 36 |
| Like cereal in milk, after a time | 33 |
| Like certain battery terminals: Abbr. | 37 |
| Like certain Mediterranean winds | 32 |
| Like certain odds, paradoxically | 32 |
| Like certain signs in horoscopes | 32 |
| Like certain versions of the Bible: Abbr. | 41 |
| Like champagne on New Year's Eve | 36 |
| Like Chandler's "Goodbye" | 39 |
| Like charges for new car options | 32 |
| Like Charles Kuralt, perennially | 32 |
| Like Charlie Brown's kite, inevitably | 41 |
| Like Chaucer's feldes or bokes | 34 |
| Like Cheech & Chong, in most of their movies | 48 |
| Like Cheech & Chong, typically | 34 |
| Like cheerleaders after the game, perhaps | 41 |
| Like Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" | 49 |
| Like Chester of "Gunsmoke" | 36 |
| Like Chicago, relatively speaking | 33 |
| Like Chicago: Oct. 8–10, 1871 | 36 |
| Like chicken à la king, usually | 34 |
| Like chicory vis-Ã -vis coffee | 32 |
| Like China's Red Guards, ideologically | 42 |
| Like Chinese Chippendale furniture say | 39 |
| Like chips that have been set out too long | 42 |
| Like Chopin's "Tristesse" étude | 48 |
| Like Chopin's Mazurka Op. 56 No. 1 | 38 |
| Like Chopin's Scherzo (Op. 54) | 34 |
| Like Christiane Amanpour, by upbringing | 39 |
| Like Christmas candles, typically | 33 |
| Like Christmas wrap and tree ornaments | 38 |
| Like church property and certain bonds | 38 |
| Like churches serving two denominations | 39 |
| Like churches, vis-Ã -vis most taxes | 38 |
| Like Churchill Downs at Derby time | 34 |
| Like cigarettes in elevators, usually | 37 |
| Like Cinderella before the Prince? | 34 |
| Like Cinderella's slipper, to her stepsisters | 49 |
| Like Cinderella's stepmother | 32 |
| Like Cinderella's stepsisters | 33 |
| Like Cirque du Soleil performers | 32 |
| Like citizens' income, usually | 34 |
| Like citric acid and lactic acid | 32 |
| Like clams on the half shell, e.g. | 34 |
| Like Clarence Darrow's suits | 32 |
| Like Clark Kent and Bamm-Bamm Rubble | 36 |
| Like clay molded by drummer Ringo? | 34 |
| Like clear nights, compared to cloudy ones | 42 |
| Like Cletus the slack-jawed yokel | 33 |
| Like cold cases for which new evidence arises | 45 |
| Like Coleridge's "painted ship" | 45 |
| Like college aptitude tests, for many students | 46 |
| Like collision avoidance systems | 32 |
| Like columns with voluted capitals | 34 |
| Like comic Eddie Izzard, at times | 33 |
| Like compliments from a perfectionist | 37 |
| Like composer Niccolò Paganini | 33 |
| Like compounds formed by identical molecules | 44 |
| Like computers with screen savers running | 41 |
| Like con artists' shills, e.g. | 34 |
| Like Conan O'Brien's show | 33 |
| Like Conan O'Brien, ethnically | 34 |
| Like congressional election years | 33 |
| Like Consumer Reports merchandise | 33 |
| Like contestants on "The Biggest Loser" | 49 |
| Like cookie-cutter houses, often | 32 |
| Like cookies at a witch's fundraiser? | 41 |
| Like cork trees and flying lizards | 34 |
| Like corn flakes sitting in milk | 32 |
| Like cornstalks after about six weeks | 37 |
| Like Corrigan's "way" | 35 |
| Like cotton candy sugar and webs | 32 |
| Like Count Basie's "darlin'" | 46 |
| Like country singers' voices, stereotypically | 49 |
| Like courtroom testimony, one hopes | 35 |
| Like Crater Lake's Rim Drive | 32 |
| Like cream cheese or suntan lotion | 34 |
| Like crossword solvers, naturally | 33 |