| 100% | HEYDIDDLEDIDDLE | 15 | First line of a nursery rhyme about the cow that jumped over the moon |
| 55% | COW | 3 | Animal that jumped over the moon in a nursery rhyme |
| 46% | BAA | 3 | First word of the nursery rhyme that contains the line "Have you any wool?" |
| 46% | BAA | 3 | First word of a nursery rhyme that ends "And one for the little boy who lives down the lane" |
| 46% | RUBADUBDUB | 10 | First line of a nursery rhyme |
| 44% | MOON | 4 | What the cow jumped over, in a nursery rhyme |
| 42% | BAA | 3 | Word repeated before "black sheep," in a nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 41% | HUMPTYDUMPTY | 12 | Nursery rhyme about the perils of sitting on a wall |
| 40% | THEMOON | 7 | The cow jumped over __ in the nursery rhyme |
| 39% | COWPERNICUS | 11 | Debunker of that "jumping over the moon" theory? |
| 37% | ALAI | 4 | Second word of a game name that rhymes with the first |
| 36% | CRADLE | 6 | Nursery item that falls out of a tree in the rhyme “Rock-a-Bye Baby” |
| 36% | COW | 3 | "Hey Diddle Diddle" animal that jumped over the moon |
| 36% | BAABAA | 6 | Start of a nursery rhyme about bags of wool |
| 36% | LONDONBRIDGE | 12 | Nursery rhyme about the hazards of decaying infrastructure |
| 36% | BINGO | 5 | The "name-o" of a nursery rhyme dog |
| 36% | CAT | 3 | "The ___ and the Fiddle," nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 36% | STAR | 4 | "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little ___," nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 36% | RAINRAINGOAWAY | 14 | Start of a hopeful rhyme about bad weather, and a hint to what the first word of 16-, 24- and 46-Across may describe |
| 35% | SINGSONG | 8 | Like the rhythm of a nursery rhyme |
| 35% | QUEUE | 5 | Waiting line at the DMV... or a word that sounds like the first letter of 25a |
| 34% | LONDONBRIDGE | 12 | Subject of a nursery rhyme that has only eight different words |
| 33% | TARTS | 5 | The Queen of Hearts's output, in a nursery rhyme |
| 33% | FRONTROW | 8 | The first line of seats at a stadium or theater |
| 33% | MOON | 4 | Nursery rhyme cow jumped over this |
| 33% | CLIVE | 5 | First name of a music mogul that rhymes with a number |
| 33% | STRAP | 5 | Part of a cross-body bag that goes over the shoulder |
| 33% | MOOS | 4 | Q: "Did you hear about the cow that cried wolf?" A: "Fake ___!" (dad joke) |
| 32% | SPOON | 5 | Utensil that the dish ran away with, in a nursery rhyme |
| 32% | THEMOON | 7 | "...the cow jumped over ___" (nursery rhyme): 2 wds. |