| 100% | SOBER | 5 | Like the designated driver, by design |
| 67% | SOBER | 5 | Like the designated driver, hopefully |
| 47% | SOBER | 5 | Like a designated driver |
| 46% | SOBER | 5 | Like a designated driver, presumably |
| 46% | SOBER | 5 | Like a designated driver, hopefully |
| 46% | SOBER | 5 | Like a designated driver, optimally |
| 45% | ASIAN | 5 | Like the mynah, by origin |
| 44% | SOMALI | 6 | Like the novelist Nadifa Mohamed, by birth |
| 44% | SOUR | 4 | Like the grapes in a fable by Aesop |
| 44% | SLAIN | 5 | Like the Jabberwock, by the vorpal blade |
| 44% | COINED | 6 | Like the word "truthiness," by Stephen Colbert |
| 44% | AUGEAN | 6 | Like the stables cleaned by Hercules |
| 44% | NEMEAN | 6 | Like the lion slain by Hercules |
| 44% | NEMEAN | 6 | Like the lion killed by Hercules |
| 44% | SOBER | 5 | Like designated drivers, hopefully |
| 43% | AVANTGARDE | 10 | Like the work spelled out by the circled letters |
| 43% | SLIMY | 5 | Like the trail left by a slug |
| 43% | BRITISH | 7 | Like the invasion led by 35-Down |
| 43% | TRIBAL | 6 | Like the council led by Jeff Probst |
| 43% | UNSEWN | 6 | Like fabric by the yard |
| 42% | HUNGRY | 6 | __ Like the Wolf, 1980's song by Duran Duran |
| 42% | CRIMEAN | 7 | Like the peninsula seized by Russia in 2014 |
| 42% | LAST | 4 | Like the Supper painted by Leonardo da Vinci |
| 42% | BLEAK | 5 | Like the mood fostered by "Waiting for Godot" |
| 42% | SOUR | 4 | Like the grapes tasted by Aesop's fox |
| 42% | IDS | 3 | Driver's lic. and the like |
| 42% | TOASTY | 6 | Like a spot by the fire |
| 41% | MARTIAN | 7 | Like the landscape currently being explored by NASA's Perseverance rover |
| 41% | RAPID | 5 | Like the results provided by at-home COVID tests |
| 41% | IDS | 3 | Driver's licenses and the like: Abbr. |