| 100% | SPARROW | 7 | Bird that killed Cock Robin, according to the nursery rhyme |
| 46% | INASHOE | 7 | Where an old woman with too many children lived, according to the nursery rhyme: 3 wds. |
| 38% | CURIOSITY | 9 | According to the proverb, it killed the cat |
| 38% | DONKEY | 6 | According to the Bible, Balaam's animal that spoke |
| 37% | ATONE | 5 | When the mouse was gone from the clock, according to the nursery rhyme |
| 37% | POCKET | 6 | What Lucy Locket lost according to the rhyme |
| 37% | DANDYISH | 8 | Yankee Doodle was this, according to the rhyme |
| 36% | STORK | 5 | Bird that brings babies, according to folklore |
| 36% | JACKBUILT | 9 | Nursery rhyme: This Is the House that __ |
| 36% | SIMPLESIMON | 11 | Nursery rhyme character "going to the fair" |
| 36% | EMU | 3 | Bird that's related to the ostrich |
| 36% | KIWI | 4 | Bird that used to live with the moa |
| 35% | DODO | 4 | Bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius |
| 35% | PHOENIX | 7 | Bird that ignites in flames to rise from the ashes |
| 35% | POPPEACOCK | 10 | Showy bird that stoops to entertaining the masses? |
| 34% | FLEDGLING | 9 | Baby bird that is ready to leave the nest |
| 34% | OWLET | 5 | Bird that's still getting wise to the world? |
| 34% | BAA | 3 | First word of the nursery rhyme that contains the line "Have you any wool?" |
| 34% | JACKSPRAT | 9 | Nursery rhyme guy whose last name inspired the answers to starred clues? |
| 34% | LAMB | 4 | Animal Mary had according to a nursery rhyme |
| 34% | DODO | 4 | Extinct bird that used to roam the island of Mauritius |
| 34% | FLEDGLING | 9 | A baby bird that is ready to fly the nest |
| 33% | OWLS | 4 | Birds that are "not what they seem," according to a "Twin Peaks" line |
| 33% | EGRET | 5 | Bird that becomes an emotion if an "r" is added to the front |
| 33% | KIWI | 4 | Bird that sacrifices its wings to save the forest, in a popular fable |
| 33% | EAGLE | 5 | Bird that has been used by the Dutch police to take down illegal drones |
| 33% | YANKEE | 6 | "___ Doodle," popular nursery rhyme song that is the state song of Connecticut |
| 32% | GEESE | 5 | Birds that belong to the same family as ducks, and migrate in the fall season |
| 32% | AUK | 3 | "Great" North Atlantic bird that became extinct in the 1850's according the IUCN |
| 32% | HEYDIDDLEDIDDLE | 15 | First line of a nursery rhyme about the cow that jumped over the moon |