| 100% | HAS | 3 | Is afflicted with, like the flu |
| 57% | AIL | 3 | Be down with the flu |
| 57% | AIL | 3 | Be down with the flu, say |
| 54% | RIFE | 4 | Really, really abundant, like the tundra around Utqiagvik, Alaska is with mosquitoes |
| 52% | HAS | 3 | Is afflicted with |
| 52% | GETS | 4 | Is afflicted with |
| 52% | HAVE | 4 | Be afflicted with |
| 52% | VIRAL | 5 | Like the flu |
| 52% | SHREK | 5 | Animated movie with the classic quote "Ogres are like onions" |
| 51% | LISPS | 5 | Is afflicted with sigmatism |
| 51% | STUTTER | 7 | Be afflicted with dysphemia |
| 51% | OMAR | 4 | Congresswoman with the 2020 memoir “This Is What America Looks Like” |
| 51% | DNA | 3 | Kendrick Lamar hit with the lyric “I was born like this” |
| 50% | VIRAL | 5 | Like the flu or some videos |
| 49% | GWENSTEFANI | 11 | Singer with the 2016 #1 album "This Is What the Truth Feels Like" |
| 49% | DNA | 3 | 3x platinum Kendrick Lamar song with the lyric "I was born like this" |
| 49% | CIS | 3 | Like one whose gender identity corresponds with the sex they were assigned at birth, for short |
| 49% | IMALOSER | 8 | Beatles song with the line "My tears are falling like rain from the sky" |
| 49% | IMALOSER | 8 | Beatles song with the line “My tears are falling like rain from the sky” |
| 47% | DEADEND | 7 | Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? |
| 47% | EMPTYBEDBLUES | 13 | Bessie Smith song with the lyric “My springs are getting rusty, sleeping single like I do” |
| 47% | CLUE | 4 | 1985 cult-classic film with the line “Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and disposable” |
| 47% | IRREGULAR | 9 | Like the verb "to be" |
| 46% | REEKS | 5 | Smells like my son was trying to make wolverine attractant with his chemistry set in the basement |
| 46% | OLDMAN | 6 | Neil Young hit with the lyrics “Look at my life / I’m a lot like you were” |
| 46% | EARLY | 5 | Like the bird with the worm |
| 46% | IRREG | 5 | Like the verb "to be": Abbr. |
| 46% | IRR | 3 | Like the verb "to be": Abbr. |
| 46% | IRR | 3 | Like the verb "to be": Abbr |
| 46% | IRONIC | 6 | Like the NSA being hacked, say |