| Like sampans | 12 |
| Like salty licorice, to me at least | 35 |
| Like saltwater taffy | 20 |
| Like salt in water | 18 |
| Like salt | 9 |
| Like salsa music | 16 |
| Like salsa | 10 |
| Like saloon pianos | 18 |
| Like salon customers | 20 |
| Like Salome's dance | 23 |
| Like Salome | 11 |
| Like salmon, often | 18 |
| Like Salma Hayek or Mitt Romney's father George | 51 |
| Like saliva | 11 |
| Like sales day clothing | 23 |
| Like sale prices | 16 |
| Like sale items | 15 |
| Like saints | 11 |
| Like Saint-Saëns's "Urbs Roma" Symphony | 56 |
| Like Saint Nick | 15 |
| Like Saint Elmo's fire | 26 |
| Like sailors on leave | 21 |
| Like sailors at work | 20 |
| Like sailing ships | 18 |
| Like sailboats | 14 |
| Like Saigon, today | 18 |
| Like Sahara's reaches | 25 |
| Like sage or allspice | 21 |
| Like Sadie of song | 18 |
| Like saddle shoes and bell-bottom pants | 39 |
| Like saddle shoes | 17 |
| Like sad sacks | 14 |
| Like sack dresses | 17 |
| Like sachets | 12 |
| Like sachet | 11 |
| Like sables and martens | 23 |
| Like Sabin's vaccine | 24 |
| Like Sabin's polio vaccine | 30 |
| Like S.T.C.'s Mariner | 25 |
| Like S.F. in 1906 | 17 |
| Like S. J. Perelman | 19 |
| Like S. F. or Rome | 18 |
| Like S&H | 12 |
| Like s'more-makers' faces | 33 |
| Like rye, usually | 17 |
| Like rye bread, at times | 24 |
| Like rust, chemically | 21 |
| Like rust | 9 |
| Like Russian winters | 20 |
| Like Russian dolls | 18 |
| Like Russia, before the revolution | 34 |
| Like Russia before 1991 | 23 |
| Like Russia and Japan, for most of 1904-'05 | 47 |
| Like Russia | 11 |
| Like Russ., once | 16 |
| Like rushing water | 18 |
| Like Rushdie's verses | 25 |
| Like Rushdie's "Verses" | 37 |
| Like Rushdie's ''Verses'' | 45 |
| Like rush-hour traffic | 22 |
| Like rush-hour streets | 22 |
| Like rush-hour roads | 20 |
| Like rush-hour buses | 20 |
| Like rush hour traffic, often | 29 |
| Like rush hour traffic | 22 |
| Like rural roads | 16 |
| Like RuPaul, when performing | 28 |
| Like runts of the litter | 24 |
| Like runts | 10 |
| Like running water | 18 |
| Like runners, swimmers et al. | 29 |
| Like rumble-seat hair | 21 |
| Like rulers | 11 |
| Like ruled notepaper | 20 |
| Like ruins in Yucatan | 21 |
| Like rugs during dancing | 24 |
| Like rugby and fisticuffs | 25 |
| Like Rudolph, in a song title | 29 |
| Like Rudolph's nose | 23 |
| Like Rudolph | 12 |
| Like Rudner's audiences after a good joke? | 46 |
| Like ruckuses or roadster roofs | 31 |
| Like Rubik's puzzle | 23 |
| Like Rubens | 11 |
| Like rubble, often | 18 |
| Like rubble after a razing | 26 |
| Like rubbish | 12 |
| Like rubberneckers | 18 |
| Like rubber | 11 |
| Like royalty | 12 |
| Like royal succession | 21 |
| Like royal descent, usually | 27 |
| Like royal descent | 18 |
| Like Royal Albert Hall | 22 |
| Like rowing or running | 22 |
| Like rowboats | 13 |
| Like routs | 10 |
| Like roulette wheels | 20 |
| Like roughly half the clues in a crossword: Abbr. | 49 |
| Like roughly 60% of human beings, ethnically | 44 |