| 100% | GENTLY | 6 | How the boat goes down the stream, in a children's song |
| 60% | ROW | 3 | How to go "gently down the stream," in a nursery rhyme |
| 53% | ONEBYONE | 8 | How the ants begin marching, in a children's song |
| 53% | ROW | 3 | What to do "gently down the stream," in a song |
| 52% | SPOONFULOFSUGAR | 15 | One "helps the medicine go down," in a song |
| 51% | CLANGCLANGCLANG | 15 | How the trolley went in a 1944 song |
| 50% | MRSUN | 5 | Character asked to "shine down," in a children's song |
| 49% | LONDONBRIDGE | 12 | Something falling down, in a children's song |
| 49% | WEASEL | 6 | One that goes "pop" in a children's song |
| 49% | THE | 3 | With 11-Down, critter that "goes pop," in a children's song |
| 46% | EDDYING | 7 | Going down the drain, in a way |
| 45% | ANTS | 4 | They "go marching" in a children's song |
| 45% | KNICKKNACK | 10 | With 20-Down, phrase in a children's song |
| 45% | ROWS | 4 | Moves a boat "gently down the stream" |
| 45% | FROGGY | 6 | One who "went a-courtin'," in a children's song |
| 44% | POP | 3 | How the weasel goes, in song |
| 43% | OLDMACDONALD | 12 | Subject of a children's song associated with the vowels in the answer to each starred clue |
| 43% | SEALED | 6 | What the Go-Go's lips are in a 1981 song |
| 42% | JIMMIECRACKCORN | 15 | Repeated lyric in a children's song |
| 42% | BAABAA | 6 | Sounds "everywhere," in a children's song |
| 42% | FRERE | 5 | Jacques' title, in a children's song |
| 42% | DELL | 4 | Locale in a children's song title |
| 42% | EIEIO | 5 | Vowels in a children's song refrain |
| 42% | OLD | 3 | Like MacDonald, in a children's song |
| 42% | EIEIO | 5 | Farmyard refrain in a children's song |
| 42% | LAVA | 4 | The floor, in a children's game |
| 41% | DELL | 4 | Farmer's hangout, in a children's song |
| 41% | ALONE | 5 | How the cheese stands, in a kids' song |
| 41% | EIEIO | 5 | Consonant-free chorus in a children’s song |
| 41% | SKI | 3 | Go down a mountain slope in the winter |