| 100% | RARE | 4 | Like a day in June, according to Lowell |
| 72% | SORARE | 6 | Like a day in June, in a Lowell poem |
| 72% | SORARE | 6 | Like a day in June, per a Lowell poem |
| 66% | SORARE | 6 | Like a June day, to Lowell |
| 64% | RARE | 4 | Like a day in June |
| 58% | ISSO | 4 | "And what ___ rare as a day in June?": Lowell |
| 53% | SNUG | 4 | Like a bug in a rug, according to an expression |
| 48% | ISSO | 4 | "And what ___ rare as a day in June?" |
| 46% | CLEAR | 5 | Like a day with no clouds in the sky |
| 45% | RARE | 4 | Like a cold day in August |
| 44% | COLD | 4 | Like a very rare day in hell |
| 43% | SORARE | 6 | Like Lowell’s “day in June” |
| 43% | SEA | 3 | "The ___ was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli" ("Seinfeld" line) |
| 43% | PREFAB | 6 | Like a house that might be built in a day |
| 42% | POSTRACIAL | 10 | Like a society in which people are said to be colorblind |
| 42% | ANAL | 4 | Like a Type A person, according to a Type B person, perhaps |
| 41% | WINDY | 5 | Like a good day for someone to say "Go fly a kite!" |
| 41% | ROSES | 5 | They're red, according to a Valentine's Day poem |
| 41% | DEER | 4 | Like a ___ in the headlights (get paralyzed due to fear or excitement) |
| 41% | OMEN | 4 | Like an eclipse, to people in olden days |
| 41% | ACHY | 4 | Like legs in the days after a marathon |
| 41% | INAPICKLE | 9 | To be in a tough, sticky situation, like chutney |
| 41% | GLOTTAL | 7 | Like the "h" in "hat," to a linguist |
| 40% | PEAS | 4 | Like two ___ in a pod (very similar to each other) |
| 40% | MIGRATE | 7 | To move in a group based on season, like birds |
| 40% | FURBISH | 7 | In the old days it meant to polish a weapon |
| 40% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument that sounds like "a duck if the duck were a songbird," according to Angels in America |
| 39% | DEWIER | 6 | Like grass in the morning, compared to other times of day |
| 39% | HIBERNATE | 9 | To sleep for months at a time, like bears in winter |
| 39% | ABATH | 5 | "I like to enjoy ___ in a tub": 2 wds. |