Possible Clues:

• Comparative illustration is up a certain distance
• Cute as a button, for one
• 'Good as new,' e.g.
• Writer's device
• That's only part of what starts 1 across
• One is like to be in a happy way
• Cousin of a metaphor
• Common figure of speech
• The likening of one thing to another
• Hot as a pistol, e.g.