| Metaphor's cousin | 21 |
| Metaphor words | 14 |
| Metaphor phrase | 15 |
| Metaphor or irony, e.g. | 23 |
| Metaphor of intrigue | 20 |
| Metaphor middle | 15 |
| Metaphor kin | 12 |
| Metaphor for time | 17 |
| Metaphor for the JFK administration | 35 |
| Metaphor for subservience | 25 |
| Metaphor for secrecy | 20 |
| Metaphor for repetitious futility | 33 |
| Metaphor for punishment | 23 |
| Metaphor for personal liability | 31 |
| Metaphor for peace | 18 |
| Metaphor for opulence | 21 |
| Metaphor for obsolescence | 25 |
| Metaphor for messiness | 22 |
| Metaphor for kinetic grace ... or what this puzzle's six eight-letter answers display? | 90 |
| Metaphor for insignificance | 27 |
| Metaphor for hope | 17 |
| Metaphor for freedom | 20 |
| Metaphor for fog | 16 |
| Metaphor for fading | 19 |
| Metaphor for faded glory | 24 |
| Metaphor for easiness | 21 |
| Metaphor for diplomacy | 22 |
| Metaphor for dense fog | 22 |
| Metaphor for debt | 17 |
| Metaphor for architectural excess | 33 |
| Metaphor for annoying repetition | 32 |
| Metaphor for an urgent need | 27 |
| Metaphor for an undesirable detour | 34 |
| Metaphor for a sharp mind | 25 |
| Metaphor for a mismatch | 23 |
| Metaphor for a middle-class American | 36 |
| Metaphor for a good scolding | 28 |
| Metaphor for a flood of tears | 29 |
| Metaphor based on an hourglass | 30 |
| Metaphor e.g. | 14 |
| Metamorphosis stages | 20 |
| Metamorphosis stage | 19 |
| Metamorphosis parts | 19 |
| Metamorphosis candidate | 23 |
| Metamorphosis | 13 |
| Metamorphosing fish | 19 |
| Metamorphosing animal | 21 |
| Metamorphoses poet | 21 |
| Metamorphoses author | 23 |
| Metamorphose, as a larva | 24 |
| Metamorphose | 12 |
| Metamorphic stage | 17 |
| Metamorphic rock | 16 |
| Metamere | 8 |
| Metalworks waste | 16 |
| Metalworks employee | 19 |
| Metalworking tools: Var. | 24 |
| Metalworking tool | 17 |
| Metalworking plants | 19 |
| Metalworking implement | 22 |
| Metalworkers' locales | 25 |
| Metalworkers | 12 |
| Metalworker? | 12 |
| Metalworker's waste | 23 |
| Metalworker's union? | 24 |
| Metalworker's tool | 22 |
| Metalworker's pin | 21 |
| Metalworker's milieu | 24 |
| Metalworker's mess | 22 |
| Metalworker's machine | 25 |
| Metalworker's joint | 23 |
| Metalworker's "glue" | 34 |
| Metalworker of a sort | 21 |
| Metalworker in government? | 26 |
| Metalworker | 11 |
| Metalwork tool | 14 |
| Metalware, often lacquered | 26 |
| Metalware for trays | 19 |
| Metalware decoration | 20 |
| Metalware | 9 |
| Metalsmith's tool | 21 |
| Metalsmith's hammer | 23 |
| Metals-in-the-rough | 19 |
| Metals source | 13 |
| Metals market report? | 21 |
| Metals in the rough | 19 |
| Metals in the raw | 17 |
| Metals in rocks | 15 |
| Metals giant in the Dow Jones industrial average | 48 |
| Metals from the earth | 21 |
| Metals from lodes | 17 |
| Metals company circled by the queen's carriage? | 51 |
| Metals | 6 |
| Metallurgy test | 15 |
| Metallurgy samples | 18 |
| Metallurgy sample | 17 |
| Metallurgy material | 19 |
| Metallurgy fuel | 15 |
| Metallurgists' supplies | 27 |
| Metallurgists' studies | 26 |