Clues for the word "SIMILES"
We've had 31 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 32 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on May 13, 2025.
Definition of similes
- pl. - of Simile
Referring Clues
- Poetic analogies
- Like words
- Like things?
- "Fresh as a daisy" and others
- Theme of this puzzle
- Like words?
- "Good as gold" and "right as rain"
- "Like" things?
- Phrases with "as a" in the middle
- Like expressions?
- Literary figures?
- Comparative phrases
- Metaphors' relatives
- Animal analogies, often
- Some 101-Downs
- "Good as gold" and "fresh as a daisy"
- "happy as a clam"&"blind as a bat"
- "Mad as a hatter" et al.
- Fit as a fiddle and tough as nails
- "Good as gold" et al.
- "She's Like the Wind" and others
- Is going back a long way for such rhetorical devices
- "Thick as a Brick" and "Solid as a Rock," e.g.
- Many "as"-in-middle phrases
- Literary comparisons
- Figures of speech
- "Smart as a whip" and "sharp as a tack"
- Poetic devices
- They use "like" in a non-Valley Girl way
- "Fit as a fiddle" and "free as a bird"
- "Fresh as a daisy" and "strong as an oak"
Last Seen In
- New York Times - May 13, 2025
- LA Times - November 28, 2024
- Daily American - July 09, 2024
- LA Times - January 07, 2024
- New York Times - July 26, 2023
- USA Today - January 15, 2023
- Daily American - July 09, 2022
- New York Times - December 23, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 24, 2017
- USA Today - May 25, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - April 27, 2017
- LA Times - May 18, 2016
- USA Today - March 11, 2016
- LA Times - January 24, 2015
- Universal - February 18, 2014
- LA Times - November 25, 2012
- Netword - April 28, 2012
- Thinks Daily - March 09, 2011
- Guardian Cryptic - May 26, 2010
- New York Times - November 24, 2009
- New York Times - May 21, 2009
- New York Times - April 28, 2009
- LA Times Sunday - January 11, 2009
- New York Times - May 26, 2008
- LA Times - November 09, 2007
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - July 29, 2007
- Universal - January 03, 2007
- New York Times - September 10, 2004
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 19, 2004
- New York Times - June 17, 2001
- And in 2 more crossword puzzles...