| 100% | ASIAN | 5 | Like the mynah, by origin |
| 59% | CHINESE | 7 | Like gunpowder and the seismometer, by origin |
| 54% | MAORI | 5 | Like the haka dance, in origin |
| 54% | AUGEAN | 6 | Like the stables cleaned by Hercules |
| 54% | SOBER | 5 | Like the designated driver, by design |
| 54% | NEMEAN | 6 | Like the lion slain by Hercules |
| 54% | NEMEAN | 6 | Like the lion killed by Hercules |
| 54% | WELSH | 5 | Like corgis, by origin |
| 53% | SLAIN | 5 | Like the Jabberwock, by the vorpal blade |
| 53% | SLIMY | 5 | Like the trail left by a slug |
| 53% | BRITISH | 7 | Like the invasion led by 35-Down |
| 53% | COINED | 6 | Like the word "truthiness," by Stephen Colbert |
| 53% | TRIBAL | 6 | Like the council led by Jeff Probst |
| 53% | SOMALI | 6 | Like the novelist Nadifa Mohamed, by birth |
| 52% | CRIMEAN | 7 | Like the peninsula seized by Russia in 2014 |
| 52% | LAST | 4 | Like the Supper painted by Leonardo da Vinci |
| 52% | BLEAK | 5 | Like the mood fostered by "Waiting for Godot" |
| 52% | SOUR | 4 | Like the grapes tasted by Aesop's fox |
| 52% | SOUR | 4 | Like the grapes in a fable by Aesop |
| 51% | AVANTGARDE | 10 | Like the work spelled out by the circled letters |
| 51% | TAXIS | 5 | Cabs, like the ones offered by 14a |
| 51% | ARKS | 4 | Boats, like the ones made by Noah |
| 51% | ARKS | 4 | Boats like the one built by Noah |
| 51% | UNSEWN | 6 | Like fabric by the yard |
| 51% | ASIAN | 5 | Like the origin of the food in many fusion restaurants |
| 50% | HUNGRY | 6 | __ Like the Wolf, 1980's song by Duran Duran |
| 49% | ELIDED | 6 | Like the "f" replaced by an apostrophe in "man-o'-war" |
| 49% | MARTIAN | 7 | Like the landscape currently being explored by NASA's Perseverance rover |
| 49% | EERIE | 5 | Like a ghost story by the campfire |
| 49% | EVEN | 4 | Like all the numbers divisible by two |