Crossword puzzle clue "self same almost"

Self-same, almost

Two teams playing the same sport in the same league in the same town, most likely

"A literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything": Huxley

Stones "I can almost hear you ___, I can almost hear you cry"

One of two landlocked African countries whose names are almost the same

It's almost the same as a plateau

Linguistic term for a word that's almost the same as another word, like "affect" and "effect"

Almost the same