100% | NONE | 4 | Fourth little piggy's lot - unlike the third - clearly choosing to avoid the backlash of possible bovine-porcine retaliation |
27% | TOE | 3 | The piggy of "This little piggy went to market ..." |
27% | NONE | 4 | Fourth little piggy's share of roast beef |
26% | LEST | 4 | To avoid the risk of |
23% | NONE | 4 | What the fourth little piggy had |
23% | NONE | 4 | What the fourth little piggy got |
23% | BRADS | 5 | Fasteners ... or, if you change the fourth letter to an S, what the fasteners might be made of |
23% | TRAIN | 5 | Alternative to avoid the headaches of 17-, 26-, 44- and 58-Across |
23% | SUSPICIONPUT | 12 | Add to the list of possible perps, literally |
23% | APER | 4 | Little, a lot of the time |
22% | ROASTBEEF | 9 | What the third little piggy ate in the rhyme |
22% | NONE | 4 | Fourth little piggy's share |
22% | TOE | 3 | One of the little piggies |
22% | SAN | 3 | Beginning of the names of California’s second, third, and fourth most populous cities |
22% | SURFINUSA | 9 | Beach Boys song set to the tune of Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen" |
22% | NONE | 4 | What the fourth little piggy had, in a nursery rhyme |
22% | LEST | 4 | "To avoid the risk of" |
22% | FREEWILL | 8 | The capacity of man to choose his own path |
22% | ALLOVER | 7 | Taking care of, to say the least |
21% | EVILS | 5 | Choose between the lesser of two ___ |
21% | III | 3 | The third ... or a hint to the rhyming ends of every Across answer |
21% | GRIEF | 5 | "To weep is to make less the depth of ___": Shak. |
21% | MATRIX | 6 | To get out of the __ choose the red pill |
21% | JAMES | 5 | ___ A. Garfield, 20th President of the U.S.A. and the fourth to sport a beard in office |
21% | ABCS | 4 | List sung to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" |
21% | TOMARKET | 8 | First little piggy's destination in the rhyme |
21% | LONELIEST | 9 | Least likely to be part of the company? |
21% | BERMUDASORTS | 12 | Kind of people who choose to live in the North Atlantic? |
21% | ABCS | 4 | They're sung to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" |
21% | CAVEANIMAL | 10 | U.S.A. ___ of the Year (award given to the little brown bat by the National Speleological Society, in 2022) |