| Like ripe cheeses | 17 |
| Like ripe lemons or bananas | 27 |
| Like ripe peaches | 17 |
| Like rising tides | 17 |
| Like rivals, often | 18 |
| Like river banks, often | 23 |
| Like river beds | 15 |
| Like river bottoms | 18 |
| Like river deltas | 17 |
| Like river sediment | 19 |
| Like riverbeds | 14 |
| Like Rizzuto's cow? | 23 |
| Like roads that need salting | 28 |
| Like roads with many potholes | 29 |
| Like roasted marshmallows | 25 |
| Like Robert Louis Stevenson and J.M. Barrie | 43 |
| Like Robert Redford | 19 |
| Like Robin Hood's aim | 25 |
| Like Robin Hood's beneficiaries | 35 |
| Like Robin Hood's men | 25 |
| Like Robin Williams, typically | 30 |
| Like robins' eggs | 21 |
| Like Robinson Crusoe | 20 |
| Like Robinson Jeffers's stallion | 36 |
| Like Robitussin: Abbr. | 22 |
| Like robotics | 13 |
| Like rock 'n' roll's Richard | 40 |
| Like rock and roll | 18 |
| Like rock formed when magma solidifies | 38 |
| Like rock found at midocean ridges | 34 |
| Like rock music | 15 |
| Like rock's Bizkit | 22 |
| Like rock's U2 | 18 |
| Like rock-hard bread | 20 |
| Like Rockefeller Center | 23 |
| Like rocker after an intense show | 33 |
| Like rockers in videos | 22 |
| Like rockets in air | 19 |
| Like Rocky | 10 |
| Like Rocky or Rambo | 19 |
| Like Rocky's eggs | 21 |
| Like rococo architecture | 24 |
| Like rococo art | 15 |
| Like Rod Serling tales | 22 |
| Like Rod Serling's stories | 30 |
| Like Rod Stewart's voice | 28 |
| Like Rodeo Drive shops | 22 |
| Like rodeo riders, eventually | 29 |
| Like Rodin's "The Thinker" | 40 |
| Like Rodin's thinker | 24 |
| Like Rogaine-users | 18 |
| Like Roger Federer | 18 |
| Like role models | 16 |
| Like roles during auditions | 27 |
| Like rolling terrain | 20 |
| Like Roman senators | 19 |
| Like romantic dinners | 21 |
| Like romantic envelopes | 23 |
| Like romantic evenings | 22 |
| Like romantic eyes, in old slang | 32 |
| Like romantic lighting | 22 |
| Like Romantic music | 19 |
| Like romantic nights | 20 |
| Like Rome | 9 |
| Like Rome in A.D. 400 | 21 |
| Like Rome vis-Ã -vis New York City | 36 |
| Like Rome, it's said | 24 |
| Like Romeo and Juliet | 21 |
| Like Romeo and Juliet in Act 2 | 30 |
| Like Romeo and Juliet, in Act II | 32 |
| Like Romeo and Juliet, to Shakespeare | 37 |
| Like Romeo before meeting Juliet | 32 |
| Like Romeo or a Dromio | 22 |
| Like Romneys | 12 |
| Like Romulus and Remus | 22 |
| Like rookies | 12 |
| Like rooms not in use, often | 28 |
| Like rooms on TV's "Trading Spaces" | 49 |
| Like rooms to rent | 18 |
| Like Rooster Cogburn's grit | 31 |
| Like roots, periodically? | 25 |
| Like rosaries and some evening gowns | 36 |
| Like rosaries and tires | 23 |
| Like Roscoe Arbuckle | 20 |
| Like rosebushes | 15 |
| Like rosemary or lavender, e.g. | 31 |
| Like roses | 10 |
| Like Rosie O'Grady | 22 |
| Like Ross Perot, in 1992: abbr. | 31 |
| Like rostrums | 13 |
| Like rotini | 11 |
| Like rough-and-tumble kids, frequently | 38 |
| Like rough-cut logs | 19 |
| Like roughly 60% of human beings, ethnically | 44 |
| Like roughly half the clues in a crossword: Abbr. | 49 |
| Like roulette wheels | 20 |
| Like routs | 10 |
| Like rowboats | 13 |
| Like rowing or running | 22 |
| Like Royal Albert Hall | 22 |