| MOTHEROFALLWARS | Holy Mary! Saddam's belligerent boast: remember the metaphor? (6,2,3,4) |
| FIGURESOFSPEECH | Orators using similes and metaphors? (7,2,6) |
| IRAQIINSURGENCY | Resistance following Saddam's downfall |
| MOON | Find the answer to the metaphor mystery: "I am silvery orb in the sky, lighting the way for the night traveler" |
| SUNSET | Find the answer to the metaphor mystery: "I am a sign off in the sky, dipping under the horizon as the day comes to an end" |
| TIME | Find the answer to the metaphor mystery: "I am a circle that bends, a ticking river that flows with no end" |
| ABE | Prez referred to only as "Mary's husband" in the Broadway show "Oh, Mary!" |
| THEME | Idea contained in the metaphor (5) |
| ODDDUCK | Strange bird, to extend the metaphor |
| FIGUREOFSPEECH | Maybe too voluble to consider a metaphor? |
| TROPE | Left to head north then east in sort of metaphor? (5) |
| COLEESCOLA | "Difficult People" actor who won a Tony for playing Mary Todd Lincoln in the Broadway play "Oh, Mary!": 2 wds. |
| CONTRARY | Mary, Mary! She was quite this in her garden! (8) |
| COLE | ___ Escola, Tony-winning portrayer of Mary Todd Lincoln in "Oh, Mary!" |
| VERSEEFFECTS | Imagery and metaphor? |
| MIXED | Is one confused by such metaphors? (5) |
| EMMA | Redeem Mary! Essentially a Jane Austen heroine (4) |
| LIU | Simu who just wrapped up his run in Oh, Mary! |
| MONALISASIMILE | Film remake heavy with art metaphors? |
| LITERAL | Wrong letter printed excluding metaphors? |
