| 100% | COUPLET | 7 | Two lines of poetry with the same rhythm and rhyme |
| 56% | COUPLET | 7 | *Poetic structure with two lines, often with the same meter and rhyme |
| 45% | ISOTONE | 7 | Either of two species of atoms with the same number of neutrons and a different number of protons |
| 45% | HAIKU | 5 | Bit of poetry with the same syllable count as this very clue |
| 39% | RONDELET | 8 | Poem of seven lines and two rhymes |
| 39% | SLUG | 4 | Fittingly, it shares the same first two letters with "slow" and "slimy" |
| 39% | SEMI | 4 | Prefix that means the same thing as, and rhymes with, "hemi-" and "demi-" |
| 38% | MEME | 4 | Image with two lines of Impact font, in the early days |
| 37% | PRIME | 5 | The best years of your life, and a word that rhymes with "time" |
| 36% | DIAMETER | 8 | Straight line connecting the centre of a circle with two points on its perimeter |
| 36% | STILLIRISE | 10 | Classic poem with the lines "Leaving behind nights of terror and fear ... Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear" |
| 36% | MRSANDMAN | 9 | Classic song with the line "Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci / And lots of wavy hair like Liberace" |
| 35% | ISOTOPES | 8 | Atoms with the same number of protons |
| 35% | DYNASTY | 7 | Line of rulers from the same family |
| 35% | CHAR | 4 | Actor who played a character with the same first name on "Two and a Half Men" |
| 35% | HAKE | 4 | Food fish of the northern hemisphere with an elongated body, large head and two dorsal fins |
| 35% | BENIN | 5 | African country with two capitals, Porto-Novo (official) and Cotonou (where the seat of government is) |
| 35% | CARLREINER | 10 | Director of film comedies The Man with Two Brains and The Jerk |
| 35% | ISOTOPE | 7 | One of two or more atoms with the same atomic number that contain different numbers of neutrons |
| 35% | SEXANDTHECITY | 13 | Whence the line “Women come to New York in search of the two Ls: labels and love” |
| 34% | JIMMYJOHNSON | 12 | Football coach who won a National Championship with the University of Miami and two Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys (2 wds.) |
| 34% | FISHHEADS | 9 | 1978 novelty song with the line "Eat them up! Yum!" ... and what both parts of the answers to starred clues can be |
| 34% | RHYME | 5 | End with the same sound, like "hike" and "bike" |
| 34% | RHYME | 5 | End with the same sound, like "jumps" and "mumps" |
| 34% | ADELE | 5 | Artist with two Record of the Year and two Album of the Year Grammys |
| 34% | IROBOT | 6 | Classic 1950 book with the line "It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion" |
| 34% | TUG | 3 | ___ of war, sport played with a rope where players pull and try to yank the other team over the line |
| 34% | BUFFALO | 7 | City with "two seasons: winter and the 4th of July" |
| 34% | ERIE | 4 | Lake with the same first and last letter |
| 34% | TAUTONYM | 8 | Classification with the same genus and species names |