Related Clues:

• A diary kept in whatever relationship helping to explain
• "Hard as nails," for one
• One putting on happy expression in comparison
• Correspondence, some enclosing a journal
• 'Cool as a cucumber,' for example
• 'Free as a bird,' for example
• A : B :: C : D, e.g
• Colorful analogy, perhaps
• Yours truly wearing grin makes a literary comparison
• With hands (of a watch)
• Figure of speech with 'like' or 'as'
• Comparison I show amusement about
• "Cold as ice," e.g
• Similarity of nearly everyone in agony suffering
• "Float like a butterfly" or "sting like a bee"