The term 'very much like' can be expressed in two different ways in a crossword puzzle. The first is ALA, which is an acronym for 'as likely as, ' meaning that something is just as likely to happen as something else. The second is AKINTO, which is a combination of the words 'akin to, ' meaning similar or related to. Both of these terms are used to express the idea of something being very much like something else.