| 100% | SONNET | 6 | One of Shakespeare's begins "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" |
| 64% | IAMBS | 5 | "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" quintet |
| 43% | AJA | 3 | Album that begins "In the corner of my eye / I saw you in Rudy's / You were very high" |
| 38% | BURGESS | 7 | British author of Nothing Like the Sun |
| 38% | TEAR | 4 | It might be seen out of the corner of one's eye |
| 38% | PLAYWITHINAPLAY | 15 | Shakespeare's "The Murder of Gonzago" is one |
| 37% | YOU | 3 | "____ are the apple of my eye" |
| 36% | SONNET | 6 | One of Shakespeare's begins "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" |
| 36% | PSALM | 5 | "The Lord is my Shepherd" begins the 23rd one |
| 36% | RICHARDIII | 10 | Shakespeare play that begins "Now is the winter of our discontent" |
| 36% | STAR | 4 | Sun is one of the millions in the sky |
| 35% | NEEDLE | 6 | Put thread through the eye of one to begin sewing |
| 35% | BEHINDBLUEEYES | 14 | 1971 hit from the Who that begins "No one knows what it's like to be the bad man" |
| 35% | TINIER | 6 | Like each line of an eye chart vis-à-vis the one above |
| 35% | HAT | 3 | One of Abraham Lincoln's is in the Smithsonian |
| 34% | SHONE | 5 | Was bright like the sun |
| 34% | PHOBOS | 6 | One of Mars's two moons, the other is Deimos |
| 34% | OPHELIA | 7 | One of the only two female characters in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" |
| 34% | LEADEN | 6 | Like the feeling of one's legs after a marathon, maybe |
| 34% | PSALM | 5 | One begins "The Lord is my shepherd ..." |
| 34% | IRIS | 4 | The colorful part of one's eye |
| 33% | JACKSONBROWNE | 13 | "Doctor, My Eyes" singer whose first name is the capital of Mississippi: 2 wds. |
| 33% | MOSCOW | 6 | One of Europe's coldest cities, also where the Bolshoi Theatre is |
| 33% | ALEXANDER | 9 | I created one of the largest empires of the ancient world and my name is followed by "The Great" |
| 33% | ASANA | 5 | Yoga position like the ones at 9a and 15d that you will encounter during a day of practicing yoga |
| 33% | PSALM | 5 | The first one begins "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly" |
| 33% | HANGS | 5 | Is at the end of one's rope? |
| 33% | WATERSKI | 8 | Be at the end of one's rope? |
| 33% | STAR | 4 | The sun is one |
| 33% | ORSINO | 6 | Speaker of Shakespeare's "If music be the food of love, play on" |