| 100% | COUGH | 5 | *Flu symptom that ends the same as 17a, 19a, 47a and 46d, but does not rhyme |
| 78% | BOUGH | 5 | *Main branch of a tree that ends the same as 17a, 19a, 34a and 46d, but does not rhyme |
| 75% | ROUGH | 5 | *Uneven or coarse surface that ends the same as 17a, 19a, 34a and 47a, but does not rhyme |
| 74% | DOUGH | 5 | *Baking mixture that ends the same as 19a, 34a, 47a and 46d, but does not rhyme |
| 56% | ENOUGH | 6 | *"Just can't get ___" (non-rhyming word that ends the same as 17a, 34a, 47a and 46d) |
| 32% | OXEN | 4 | Animal name that ends with "X" but the plural does not end with "s" |
| 32% | SEMI | 4 | Prefix that means the same thing as, and rhymes with, "hemi-" and "demi-" |
| 28% | RHYMES | 6 | Words that end with the same sounds, like "moan" and "groan" |
| 27% | OBEYERS | 7 | Those that follow the rules and do as told |
| 26% | RUNNINGSCARED | 13 | 1961 Roy Orbison hit that has the same title as, but is not featured in, a 1986 Gregory Hines/Billy Crystal film (2 wds.) |
| 26% | YEA | 3 | Word that means the same thing, and has the same letters as, "aye" |
| 25% | HELPMANOVERBOARD | 16 | Start of an HMO story that ends, "Sorry, your policy does not extend beyond the three-mile limit"? |
| 25% | CATTRALL | 8 | Actress in “Sex and the City,” but not its reboot, “And Just Like That . . .” |
| 25% | APES | 4 | Does the same as |
| 25% | APED | 4 | Did the same as |
| 25% | APE | 3 | Do the same as |
| 25% | MIRRORED | 8 | Did the same as |
| 25% | SOMENIGHTS | 10 | #3 fun. hit with the same title as the album that 14-, 19- and 44-Across are on: 2 wds. |
| 25% | IMAGINE | 7 | John Lennon song that ends, "I hope some day you'll join us / And the world will be as one" |
| 25% | UNLIKE | 6 | Not the same as another |
| 25% | CHARD | 5 | Vegetable that’s the same species as the mangel-wurzel and the beet |
| 24% | ALIT | 4 | Past-tense verb that is the same as its present-tense form minus the fourth and fifth letters |
| 24% | SHAKYGROUND | 11 | With "on," not strong, as an argument ... and what might cause the ends of answers to starred clues? |
| 24% | FOLLOWSUIT | 10 | Carry on the same way ... and what the ends of 17-, 25-, 35- and 48-Across do |
| 24% | SYNONYM | 7 | Word that means the same as another |
| 24% | YEA | 3 | Vote that means the same as "aye" |
| 24% | CUE | 3 | Word that sounds the same as "Q" |
| 24% | AYE | 3 | Vote that means the same as "yea" |
| 24% | HOMONYM | 7 | Word that sounds the same as another |
| 24% | DOE | 3 | Word that sounds the same as "dough" |