| Metamorphic rock | 16 |
| Metamorphic stage | 17 |
| Metamorphose | 12 |
| Metamorphose, as a larva | 24 |
| Metamorphoses author | 23 |
| Metamorphoses poet | 21 |
| Metamorphosing animal | 21 |
| Metamorphosing fish | 19 |
| Metamorphosis | 13 |
| Metamorphosis candidate | 23 |
| Metamorphosis parts | 19 |
| Metamorphosis stage | 19 |
| Metamorphosis stages | 20 |
| Metaphor e.g. | 14 |
| Metaphor based on an hourglass | 30 |
| Metaphor for a flood of tears | 29 |
| Metaphor for a good scolding | 28 |
| Metaphor for a middle-class American | 36 |
| Metaphor for a mismatch | 23 |
| Metaphor for a sharp mind | 25 |
| Metaphor for an undesirable detour | 34 |
| Metaphor for an urgent need | 27 |
| Metaphor for annoying repetition | 32 |
| Metaphor for architectural excess | 33 |
| Metaphor for debt | 17 |
| Metaphor for dense fog | 22 |
| Metaphor for diplomacy | 22 |
| Metaphor for easiness | 21 |
| Metaphor for faded glory | 24 |
| Metaphor for fading | 19 |
| Metaphor for fog | 16 |
| Metaphor for freedom | 20 |
| Metaphor for hope | 17 |
| Metaphor for insignificance | 27 |
| Metaphor for kinetic grace ... or what this puzzle's six eight-letter answers display? | 90 |
| Metaphor for messiness | 22 |
| Metaphor for obsolescence | 25 |
| Metaphor for opulence | 21 |
| Metaphor for peace | 18 |
| Metaphor for personal liability | 31 |
| Metaphor for punishment | 23 |
| Metaphor for repetitious futility | 33 |
| Metaphor for secrecy | 20 |
| Metaphor for subservience | 25 |
| Metaphor for the JFK administration | 35 |
| Metaphor for time | 17 |
| Metaphor kin | 12 |
| Metaphor middle | 15 |
| Metaphor of intrigue | 20 |
| Metaphor or irony, e.g. | 23 |
| Metaphor phrase | 15 |
| Metaphor words | 14 |
| Metaphor's cousin | 21 |
| Metaphor's cousin: Abbr. | 28 |
| Metaphor's partner: Abbr. | 29 |
| Metaphor, e.g. | 14 |
| Metaphor, for one | 17 |
| Metaphor, literarily | 20 |
| Metaphoric source of support | 28 |
| Metaphoric word for a close call | 32 |
| Metaphorical | 12 |
| Metaphorical "sticking" place | 39 |
| Metaphorical backbreaker | 24 |
| Metaphorical basket contents | 28 |
| Metaphorical basket filler | 26 |
| Metaphorical birthplace | 23 |
| Metaphorical boundary | 21 |
| Metaphorical carrot | 19 |
| Metaphorical cause of discomfort | 32 |
| Metaphorical comfort | 20 |
| Metaphorical creditors | 22 |
| Metaphorical crowd | 18 |
| Metaphorical device of oppression | 33 |
| Metaphorical dinosaurs | 22 |
| Metaphorical dream world | 24 |
| Metaphorical entanglement | 25 |
| Metaphorical fish container | 27 |
| Metaphorical fish holder | 24 |
| Metaphorical hiding place | 25 |
| Metaphorical incentive | 22 |
| Metaphorical inspiration | 24 |
| Metaphorical limit | 18 |
| Metaphorical low points | 23 |
| Metaphorical marcher | 20 |
| Metaphorical meaning | 20 |
| Metaphorical mess | 17 |
| Metaphorical obscurer | 21 |
| Metaphorical pathway | 20 |
| Metaphorical payback | 20 |
| Metaphorical philosophical conflict used as an album title by The Police, literally | 83 |
| Metaphorical point of no return | 31 |
| Metaphorical political term for a system with no purpose other than to sustain itself | 85 |
| Metaphorical reading to a misbehaving kid | 41 |
| Metaphorical refuges | 20 |
| Metaphorical search tool | 24 |
| Metaphorical site of some presidential chats | 44 |
| Metaphorical slight | 19 |
| Metaphorical small distance | 27 |
| Metaphorical sources | 20 |
| Metaphorical state of elation | 29 |