| 100% | BAA | 3 | First word of the nursery rhyme that contains the line "Have you any wool?" |
| 53% | BAA | 3 | Start of a children's rhyme with the line "Have you any wool?" |
| 51% | BAA | 3 | Word repeated before "black sheep," in a nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 50% | BAA | 3 | First word of a nursery rhyme that ends "And one for the little boy who lives down the lane" |
| 47% | HEYDIDDLEDIDDLE | 15 | First line of a nursery rhyme about the cow that jumped over the moon |
| 45% | CAT | 3 | "The ___ and the Fiddle," nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 45% | STAR | 4 | "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little ___," nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 42% | LONDONBRIDGE | 12 | Subject of a nursery rhyme that has only eight different words |
| 40% | ALAI | 4 | Second word of a game name that rhymes with the first |
| 40% | ACHY | 4 | First word in the title of the Billy Ray Cyrus song that popularized line dancing |
| 37% | BAA | 3 | Word repeated before "black sheep, have you any wool?" |
| 37% | QUEUE | 5 | Waiting line at the DMV... or a word that sounds like the first letter of 25a |
| 36% | FLIPFLOPPING | 12 | Switching positions, and a phrase spelled by the first letters of 12 words that have switched positions |
| 36% | RUBADUBDUB | 10 | First line of a nursery rhyme |
| 36% | LONGFELLOW | 10 | Author of an 1841 poem that contains the line spelled out by the circled squares |
| 35% | SEAANIMAL | 9 | Category whose name becomes that of an example of the category when you combine the first word and the last letter of the second word |
| 35% | MONTH | 5 | One of the twelve divisions in a year, and a word that has an obscure perfect rhyme with the word "oneth" |
| 35% | LITE | 4 | First word in the rhyming name of a peg toy |
| 35% | REO | 3 | 1976 rock album, or the first word of the band that made it |
| 34% | BRAID | 5 | Word that can follow the first words of 4-, 7- and 10-Down |
| 34% | HINT | 4 | "The first word of the answer to each of the six starred clues describes the number of that clue," e.g. |
| 34% | ACROSTIC | 8 | The first letter of each line spells a word |
| 34% | MACARONI | 8 | Word that ends the first verse of “Yankee Doodle” |
| 33% | NEE | 3 | Word on the first line of Mirren's Wikipedia article |
| 33% | PURPLE | 6 | Color that is a blend of blue and red, and a word that has an obscure perfect rhyme with the word "curple" |
| 33% | SEE | 3 | Word in the first line of the U.S. national anthem |
| 33% | WELLPLAYED | 10 | "How clever of you!," and a hint to the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 33% | MEASURETWICE | 12 | With 66-Across, carpentry adage that also describes the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 33% | FOREFATHER | 10 | Ancestor ... or what the first word of seven answers in this puzzle can have? |
| 32% | HUMAN | 5 | Word that can precede the first word of 17- and 64-Across and 11- and 29-Down |