| 100% | SANTA | 5 | In verse, "His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!" |
| 42% | MOSES | 5 | He "supposes his toeses are roses," in a "Singin' in the Rain" song |
| 38% | SANK | 4 | Was like a rock in water |
| 38% | POD | 3 | Be like two peas in a ___ |
| 38% | ANON | 4 | Like the verse "Roses are red, violets are blue ...," in brief |
| 38% | ODD | 3 | Like roses blooming in a Wisconsin winter |
| 37% | MASLOW | 6 | Psychologist Abraham who came up with his principle in 1966 that "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" |
| 37% | BRAHE | 5 | Astronomer who lost part of his nose in a duel |
| 37% | LEANED | 6 | Was tilted, like a certain tower in Pisa |
| 37% | BRAHE | 5 | Astronomer who lost part of his nose in a sword duel |
| 37% | POD | 3 | "They are like two peas in a ___" |
| 36% | BRAHE | 5 | Danish astronomer Tycho who lost part of his nose in a duel |
| 36% | PREFAB | 6 | Like a house that might be built in a day |
| 36% | POSTRACIAL | 10 | Like a society in which people are said to be colorblind |
| 36% | DUSTY | 5 | Like a shelf that hasn't been cleaned in a while |
| 36% | OVERGROWN | 9 | Like a lawn that hasn't been mowed in a while |
| 36% | CAPSIZED | 8 | Like a boat that's been turned over in the water |
| 36% | SCRIPTED | 8 | Like a TV show whose lines are all written in advance |
| 36% | NERD | 4 | Guy with his nose always stuck in a book |
| 36% | NESTLED | 7 | Like the children, in a holiday verse |
| 35% | ROSES | 5 | What Moses supposes his toeses are, in an old verse |
| 35% | SIMILE | 6 | "My love is like a red, red rose," e.g. |
| 35% | THINE | 5 | Like whose eyes, in a Ben Jonson verse? |
| 35% | REDREDROSE | 10 | Flower that "my Luve is like," in a Robert Burns poem |
| 35% | MONET | 5 | His house in Giverny is a now a museum |
| 34% | STEMS | 5 | Cherry parts that can be tied in a knot |
| 34% | BOBMARLEY | 9 | February 6, his birthday, is a holiday in Jamaica |
| 34% | PROPHET | 7 | Nobody is a __ in his own land |
| 34% | DEVITO | 6 | Schwarzenegger is his twin in a movie |
| 34% | OUTOFORDER | 10 | Like a nonfunctioning vending machine, or what the circled letters are, in two ways |