| 100% | KID | 3 | Not a grown-up |
| 71% | STALAGMITE | 10 | One growing up in a cave? |
| 69% | UNABLE | 6 | Not up to a task |
| 69% | KNEELED | 7 | Not up for a proposal? |
| 68% | GIRL | 4 | Person who grows up to be a woman |
| 68% | TRUE | 4 | Not made up, as a story |
| 68% | AFAR | 4 | Not up close, from a distance |
| 68% | ADULTLIKE | 9 | Resembling a grown-up |
| 67% | LETDIE | 6 | Not bring up again, as a topic |
| 67% | MEATLOVER | 9 | Not one to pass up a porterhouse |
| 65% | TOYSRUSKID | 10 | One who doesn't want to grow up, in a jingle |
| 64% | UNCH | 4 | Not up or down, as a stock price: Abbr. |
| 64% | SHY | 3 | Not likely to speak up in a meeting, say |
| 64% | CAT | 3 | A kitten grows up to be one |
| 64% | VEGETABLE | 9 | A plant grown to be eaten, not fruit or grain |
| 62% | GEOMETRY | 8 | What the acorn said when it grew up, in a classic math joke |
| 62% | ADULTFARE | 9 | Cost of travel for a grown-up |
| 61% | CLUNY | 5 | Town in Saone-et-Loire, France that grew up around a 10th-century abbey |
| 60% | NOSHOWS | 7 | Passengers who do not turn up for a booked flight |
| 60% | COILED | 6 | Wound up, like a hose that's not in use |
| 60% | CATALYST | 8 | It speeds up a reaction but is not changed itself |
| 60% | STUBBLE | 7 | Hairs growing back after a few days of not shaving |
| 59% | FOUND | 5 | *With 44-Down, not turning up as expected in a search |
| 59% | ACROSS | 6 | Direction of a row; left to right, not up and down |
| 59% | AGELIMIT | 8 | The Senate has a lower one but not an upper one |
| 59% | KIDULT | 6 | Grown-up who's not quite grown up |
| 59% | MAN | 3 | What a boy grows up to be |
| 59% | CAT | 3 | What a kitten grows up to be |
| 59% | SWAN | 4 | What a cygnet grows up to be |
| 58% | ISET | 4 | "You go not till ___ you up a glass": Hamlet |