| 100% | BAA | 3 | First word of a nursery rhyme that ends "And one for the little boy who lives down the lane" |
| 45% | BAA | 3 | Word repeated before "black sheep," in a nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 40% | CAT | 3 | "The ___ and the Fiddle," nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 40% | STAR | 4 | "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little ___," nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 38% | LANE | 4 | "Little boy who lives down the ___" (figure in the nursery rhyme "Baa Baa Black Sheep") |
| 37% | BAA | 3 | First word of the nursery rhyme that contains the line "Have you any wool?" |
| 36% | FISHERMAN | 9 | "The ___ and the Little Fish," a popular fable by 38-Down about a small fish that begs for its life on account of its size |
| 36% | PRIME | 5 | The best years of your life, and a word that rhymes with "time" |
| 36% | HEYDIDDLEDIDDLE | 15 | First line of a nursery rhyme about the cow that jumped over the moon |
| 35% | LANE | 4 | "... the little boy who lives down the ___" |
| 35% | ALAI | 4 | Second word of a game name that rhymes with the first |
| 34% | LIAM | 4 | ___ Payne, member of the boy band One Direction who is known for his single "Strip That Down" |
| 34% | LANE | 4 | "...the little boy who lives down the ___" |
| 34% | MONTH | 5 | One of the twelve divisions in a year, and a word that has an obscure perfect rhyme with the word "oneth" |
| 33% | SONY | 4 | Tech giant that originally got its name from a combination of the Latin word for sound and a slang term for a young boy |
| 32% | BEAM | 4 | Smile (and a word that can follow the first parts of 21- and 49-Across and 3- and 29-Down) |
| 32% | BAIN | 4 | Donald who wrote a 1963 "memoir" seen in the first words of 17-, 30-, 46- and 60-Across |
| 32% | PIE | 3 | Bit of slapstick ammo, and a word that can follow the first parts of 18- and 63-Across and 3- and 27-Down |
| 31% | BRAID | 5 | Word that can follow the first words of 4-, 7- and 10-Down |
| 31% | LONDONBRIDGE | 12 | Subject of a nursery rhyme that has only eight different words |
| 31% | KEY | 3 | Fundamental, and a word that can follow the first parts of 20-, 31-, 41- and 52-Across |
| 31% | FLIPFLOPPING | 12 | Switching positions, and a phrase spelled by the first letters of 12 words that have switched positions |
| 31% | WANNABET | 8 | "Care to wager?" ... and a question answered, one way or the other, by the first words of the answers to starred clues |
| 31% | GETA | 4 | Words that may precede the first words of 18-, 40- and 62-Across and 3- and 32-Down |
| 30% | BOUGH | 5 | *Main branch of a tree that ends the same as 17a, 19a, 34a and 46d, but does not rhyme |
| 30% | HUMAN | 5 | Word that can precede the first word of 17- and 64-Across and 11- and 29-Down |
| 30% | LATEBLOOMER | 11 | One who catches up eventually ... or a hint to the ends of 17-, 30- and 46-Across |
| 30% | 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 |
| 30% | ACTS | 4 | First book of the New Testament that isn't named for a person |
| 30% | SIBYL | 5 | One of a number of prophetesses in ancient Greece and Rome such as that of Cumae, who guided Aeneas through the underworld |