| 9
| TRAPDOORS |
Secret Exits Represented Five Times In This Puzzle's Grid |
| 10
| SWITCHJOBS |
Change Careers, Or A Hint To This Puzzle's Theme |
| 11
| MATHTEACHER |
Someone Well Versed In This Puzzle's Theme |
| 12
| LAWOFGRAVITY |
Scientific Contribution From 98-down, Discovered In A Manner Suggested By This Puzzle's Theme |
| 15
| THESOUNDOFMUSIC |
Rodgers And Hammerstein's "do-re-mi" Show, With A Hint To This Puzzle's Theme |
| 6
| IAMBIC |
Like "to Be Or Not To Be" |
| 3
| APT |
Like Usain Bolt's Last Name |
| 3
| INE |
Like Bach's Partita For Violin No. 3 |
| 3
| RED |
Like Diamonds |
| 3
| ASL |
It Has Colloquial Gestures Like "kiss-fist" And "shaking L" Abbr. |
| 3
| WET |
Like Some Blankets And Bars |
| 3
| DRY |
Like Some Humor And Martinis |
| 3
| DRY |
Like Some Humor And Wine |
| 3
| OTC |
Like Some Meds |
| 3
| IND |
Like The Opening Of Mahler's Symphony No. 9 |
| 3
| DIY |
Like Typical Projects In Popular Mechanics Magazine, In Brief |
| 3
| RES |
Like Some Telephone Nos. |
| 3
| DRY |
Like Wine Labeled "sec" |
| 3
| HOW |
Question That's Not One Of The Five W's |
| 3
| DUH |
"like, Obviously!" |
| 3
| PBS |
Network Supported By "viewers Like You" |
| 3
| ODD |
Like Almost All Prime Numbers |
| 4
| NEON |
Like The Radio City Music Hall Sign |
| 4
| ARTY |
Like Many College Film Projects |
| 4
| OILY |
Like Auto Shop Rags |
| 4
| SKOL |
Vodka Brand That Sounds Like A Toast |
| 4
| AIRY |
Like Cheese Puffs And Rice Cakes |
| 4
| RUNG |
Like Church Bells |
| 4
| ARID |
Like Climates Where Cacti Thrive |
| 4
| TRIO |
The Constructors Of This Puzzle, E.g. |
| 4
| SUED |
Like Discriminatory Employers, Often |
| 4
| AVID |
Like Fans Who Hold Season Tickets, Typically |
| 4
| OILY |
Like Garage Floors, Often |
| 4
| DEWY |
Like Grass On A Misty Morning |
| 4
| OAKY |
Like Many A Barrel-aged Wine |
| 4
| ICED |
Like Many A Summertime Beverage |
| 4
| ARRS |
Talk Like A Pirate Day Outbursts |
| 4
| INHD |
Like Many Tv Broadcasts Since The 1990s |
| 4
| WHEN |
One Of The Five W's |
| 4
| ARID |
Like Much Of Sudan |
| 4
| YALE |
New Haven Alma Mater Of Five Presidents |
| 4
| VAST |
Like The Universe |
| 4
| YAKS |
Sure-footed Pack Animals |
| 4
| SNAP |
Like Some Decisions |
| 4
| ARTY |
Like Some Designs On Etsy |
| 4
| RASP |
Speak Like Clint Eastwood |
| 4
| SWUM |
Like The Start Of An Ironman Race |
| 4
| SUSS |
Puzzle (out) |
| 4
| TALL |
Like Some Tales |
| 4
| ASHY |
Like A Used Firepit |
| 4
| ORAL |
Like Some Vaccines |
| 4
| MEEK |
Like The Eventual Inheritors Of The Earth, In Matthew |
| 4
| EVIL |
Like The More Interesting Twin, Some Would Say |
| 4
| AGED |
Like Scotch |
| 4
| APSE |
Word That Sounds Like A Plural Of 1-down |
| 4
| TAUT |
Like A Tug-of-war Rope |
| 4
| OSOS |
Animals In Hibernación |
| 4
| TEEN |
"smells Like ___ Spirit" (nirvana Song) |
| 4
| THEM |
"how Do You Like ___ Apples?" |
| 4
| AHAB |
"grand, Ungodly, God-like" Man Of Fiction |
| 4
| BLOC |
Contingent Of Like-minded Voters |
| 4
| BAWL |
Cry Like A Baby |
| 4
| ANTI |
Like A Thumbs-down Vote |
| 4
| INKY |
Like A Stamp Pad |
| 4
| RARE |
Like A T206 Honus Wagner Baseball Card |
| 5
| PALER |
Like Pastels Compared To Primary Colors |
| 5
| IOWAN |
Like Some Quad Cities Residents |
| 5
| NOISY |
Like Many Street-level Apartments |
| 5
| SOLAR |
With 41-across, A Celestial Event ... Or A Hint To Four Squares In This Puzzle |
| 5
| ARTSY |
Like Some Gallery Displays |
| 5
| RETRO |
Like Men's Double-breasted Suits, E.g. |
| 5
| SWEET |
Like Most Desserts |
| 5
| KINGS |
With 101-across, Where This Puzzle's Enclosed Answer Is Located |
| 5
| INANE |
Like Much Three Stooges Humor |
| 5
| MINTY |
Like Much Toothpaste |
| 5
| SIXTH |
Like The Most Recent Pope Paul Among All Popes Named Paul |
| 5
| JUICY |
Like Oranges And Some Gossip |
| 5
| COINS |
What Might Strike You While Solving This Puzzle |
| 5
| FLOWN |
Like Planes And Flags |
| 5
| STRUT |
Walk Around Like You Own The Place |
| 5
| YESNO |
Like Some Questions |
| 5
| BULGY |
Like Pronounced Muscles |
| 5
| DRIER |
Like Prunes Vis-à-vis Plums |
| 5
| ATOLL |
Island Like Kiritimati |
| 5
| STEEP |
Like Some Roller Coaster Drops |
| 5
| BLEAT |
Cry Like A Kid |
| 5
| DROLL |
Like Some "monty Python" Humor |
| 5
| MOVIN |
"___ On Up" ("the Jeffersons" Theme) |
| 5
| REPEL |
Act Like Some Poles |
| 5
| PAPAL |
Like Some Bulls |
| 5
| NOFEE |
Like Some Checking Accounts |
| 5
| KHUFU |
Fill In This Answer With Letters From Five Clue Numbers 74, 92, 21, 52, 118 |
| 5
| JAIME |
French "i Like" |
| 5
| FINED |
Like Speeders, Often |
| 5
| TASED |
Like The Villainous Max Shreck, At The End Of "batman Returns" |
| 5
| OAKEN |
Like Many Chardonnay Barrels |
| 5
| SLOTH |
Along With The Anteater, One Of Two Animals In The Order Pilosa |
| 5
| NORSE |
Like Thor Or Loki |
| 5
| OOZES |
Moves Like Muck |
| 5
| SAGGY |
Like A Dewlap |
| 5
| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
| 5
| NEEDY |
Like A Partner Who Can't Spend A Second Apart From You |
| 5
| INEPT |
Like A Schlemiel |
| 5
| AGILE |
Like Ballet Dancers |
| 5
| MESSY |
Like A Breakup Gone Bad |
| 5
| NOOUT |
Like A Situation At The Start Of An Inning |
| 5
| LADEN |
Packed, Like A Ship With Cargo |
| 5
| MOTIF |
Recurring Theme |
| 5
| ASIAN |
Like Almost Two-thirds Of The Earth's Population |
| 5
| LOOTS |
Ransacks Like A Pirate |
| 5
| REBUS |
Puzzle Type With Pictures |
| 5
| SEALS |
Marine Animals With Flippers |
| 5
| OOZED |
Moved Like Molasses |
| 5
| RURAL |
Like Farm Country |
| 5
| INERT |
Like Helium |
| 5
| TRANS |
Like Those Celebrated With An Annual Day Of Visibility On March 31 |
| 5
| PLUSH |
Like Many A Stuffed Toy |
| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 5
| ASSES |
Sure-footed Pack Animals |
| 5
| RARER |
Like Uranium Vis-à-vis Carbon |
| 5
| WYNNE |
Arthur Who Invented The Crossword Puzzle (1913) |
| 5
| TENTH |
Like J, Alphabetically |
| 5
| BAGGY |
Like Hammer Pants |
| 5
| SEEMS |
Looks Like |
| 5
| LITUP |
Like Festive Houses During The Holidays |
| 5
| OGLES |
Looks Like A Jerk |
| 5
| WAXED |
Like Some Legs And Mustaches |
| 6
| CONSUL |
Office Held Five Times By Julius Caesar |
| 6
| OILERS |
N.h.l. Team With Five Championship-winning Seasons In The 1980s |
| 6
| FOLDUP |
Like Some Space-saving Beds |
| 6
| SLUSHY |
Like Winter Roads During A Thaw |
| 6
| LESSER |
Like The "5" Of "5 & 10" |
| 6
| ANIMES |
Cartoon Films Like "spirited Away" And "ninja Scroll" |
| 6
| MOLTEN |
Like The Inside Of A Lava Cake |
| 6
| RIBBED |
Like Twill And Faille |
| 6
| MAGNET |
Object Represented Visually Twice In This Puzzle |
| 6
| TWOHIT |
Like Some Well-pitched Games |
| 6
| ARETOO |
Comeback That Sounds Like A "star Wars" Character |
| 6
| JAMMED |
Like Some Signals And Traffic |
| 6
| SASHAY |
Walk Like You Own The Place |
| 6
| RATING |
Five Stars, Maybe |
| 6
| SALTED |
Like Pretzels And Winter Highways |
| 6
| TOOTHY |
Like A Wide Grin |
| 6
| QATARI |
Like Al Jazeera |
| 6
| ACIDIC |
Like Apples And Oranges |
| 6
| FEARED |
Like Bogeymen |
| 6
| ORANGE |
Like A Screwdriver |
| 6
| NOCARB |
Like Diets That Cut Out Bread And Pasta |
| 6
| ARCHED |
Like Eyebrows |
| 6
| OBLONG |
Like Kiwis And Plum Tomatoes, By Shape |
| 6
| INBETA |
Like Many Apps With Faulty Features |
| 6
| THEMED |
Like Many Crossword Puzzles (though Not This One) |
| 6
| SWAMPY |
Like Marshes |
| 6
| ELDEST |
Like Meg Among The March Sisters |
| 6
| INLAID |
Like Mosaic Tiles |
| 6
| PREWEB |
Like Pioneering Search Engines Of The 1980s |
| 6
| SUDOKU |
Puzzle With A 9 X 9 Grid |
| 6
| SEWNON |
Like Scouting Patches |
| 6
| STRAWY |
Like Some Horse Bedding |
| 6
| SEEDED |
Like Some Fruits And Tennis Players |
| 6
| RAIDED |
Like Refrigerators At Night, Sometimes |
| 6
| CHEOPS |
Greek Name For This Puzzle's Enclosed Answer |
| 7
| EASIEST |
Like Crosswords On Monday Vis-à-vis Those In The Rest Of The Week |
| 7
| LOLCATS |
Memes With Captions Like "i Can Has Cheezburger?" |
| 7
| HEAVIER |
Like épées Vis-à-vis Foils |
| 7
| PRECODE |
Like Early Uncensored Hollywood Films |
| 7
| SLURRED |
Like Drunken Speech |
| 7
| ONETERM |
Like Trump's Presidency |
| 7
| GRAWLIX |
String Of Typographical Symbols, Like @%$&!, To Represent An Obscenity |
| 7
| MOONLIT |
Like A Romantic Evening Stroll, Perhaps |
| 7
| RHYMING |
Like 17-, 26-, 40-, 51- And 64-across, With Respect To The Numbers In Their Clues |
| 7
| SAMESEX |
Like Some Couples |
| 7
| SAMESEX |
Like Some Relationships |
| 7
| STRANGE |
Like Anomalies |
| 7
| BREADED |
Like Some Chicken Cutlets |
| 7
| CLASSIC |
Like Works Of Shakespeare Or Frank Sinatra |
| 7
| WARTORN |
Like The Balkans In The 1990s |
| 7
| ROUNDED |
Like 100 Vis-à-vis 99, Say |
| 7
| DCBASED |
Like Much White House Press |
| 7
| PARTING |
With 58-across, What This Puzzle's Circled Letters Are ... Or What They're Doing |
| 7
| INFUSED |
Like Some Vodkas |
| 7
| GLITCHY |
Like Many A Beta Release |
| 7
| TOOHARD |
Unlike This Puzzle, We Hope |
| 7
| ARTDECO |
Like Los Angeles's Griffith Observatory |
| 7
| TACTFUL |
Like Whatever Comes After "how Should I Put This?" |
| 8
| TOETOTOE |
Like Some Confrontations |
| 8
| DOTTHEIS |
Attend To Details ... Or A Hint To Entering Six Down Answers In This Puzzle |
| 8
| EGYPTIAN |
Like Hathor, Goddess Of Motherhood |
| 8
| TURNKEYS |
Jailers ... Or A Hint To "unlocking" Four Answers In This Puzzle |
| 8
| ROSHAMBO |
One Name For The Game Depicted In This Puzzle |
| 8
| CHEROKEE |
Like Sequoyah, For Whom The Tree Is Named |
| 8
| IMPERIAL |
Like Rome Starting In The First Century B.c. |
| 8
| HALFREAD |
Like A Book With A Bookmark In The Middle, Say |
| 8
| ALVEOLAR |
Like The Consonants "t" And "d" |
| 9
| LOOSEENDS |
Unresolved Details ... And A Hint To This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
| 9
| UMMACHINE |
What A Nervous Public Speaker Sounds Like? |
| 9
| BUNCHEDUP |
Like Part Of A Dress Affected By Static Cling, Say |
| 9
| WARMSUPTO |
Begins To Like |
| 9
| TETRAPODS |
Four-limbed Animals |
| 9
| THIGHHIGH |
Like Some Fashion Boots |
| 9
| SIMMERING |
Like Some Feuds And Foods On A Stove |
| 9
| PROTECTED |
Like Many Endangered Species |
| 9
| MRSANDMAN |
Classic Song With The Line "give Him A Lonely Heart Like Pagliacci / And Lots Of Wavy Hair Like Liberace" |
| 9
| BORNTORUN |
New Jersey's "unofficial Rock Theme Of Our State's Youth" |
| 10
| ROCKBOTTOM |
All-time Low ... Or A Musical Hint To The Answers To This Puzzle's Starred Clues |
| 10
| GUTFEELING |
Intuition Without Logical Explanation, Or A Hint To This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
| 10
| HYPERBARIC |
Like Oxygen Therapy Chambers |
| 10
| MUSTBENICE |
"wish I Could Live Like That ..." |
| 11
| POWERPOSING |
Standing Like Wonder Woman, Say |
| 11
| GWENSTEFANI |
Singer With The 2016 #1 Album "this Is What The Truth Feels Like" |
| 11
| RAISETHEBAR |
Heighten Expectations, Say ... Or A Hint To Entering Four Answers In This Puzzle |
| 11
| EMPIRESTATE |
Birthplace Of Five U.s. Presidents, With "the" |
| 12
| SOLDFORPARTS |
Like Many A Lemon, Eventually |
| 12
| REALORIGINAL |
Sarcastic "oh, Like You Thought Of That Yourself" |
| 13
| FALLINTOPLACE |
Become Clear ... Or Make Like The Object Represented By The Circled Letters |
| 13
| SHROUDOFTURIN |
Pope Pius Xii Called It "a Holy Thing Perhaps Like Nothing Else" |
| 13
| NAMEOFTHEGAME |
Something's Essential Aspect ... Or What's Spelled Out By Letters In This Puzzle's Eight "cups" |
| 13
| AMILLIONBUCKS |
Great Thing To Feel Like |
| 14
| MARGARETFARRAR |
First Puzzle Editor Of The New York Times |
| 14
| REVENGEISADISH |
With 11-down, Proverb About Delayed Retribution, With A Hint To The Answers To This Puzzle's Starred Clues |
| 15
| ADROPINTHEOCEAN |
Insignificant Amount ... Or Hint To This Puzzle's Shaded Squares |
| 15
| CONGRATULATIONS |
First Part Of A Message Suggested By This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
| 15
| OPTICALILLUSION |
This Isn't What It Looks Like! |
| 15
| FROMSTEMTOSTERN |
Thoroughly ... Or A Hint For Parsing Some Lowercase Letters In Four Of This Puzzle's Clues |
