| 100% | CRADLE | 6 | Nursery item that falls out of a tree in the rhyme “Rock-a-Bye Baby” |
| 46% | LEAF | 4 | Part of a tree that changes color in the fall |
| 46% | LEAF | 4 | Part of a tree that might fall off in the autumn |
| 41% | ASPEN | 5 | Tree that's the name of a city in Colorado |
| 40% | LEAF | 4 | Part of a tree that may fall in Fall |
| 40% | BAA | 3 | Word repeated before "black sheep," in a nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 40% | ROCK | 4 | "School of ___," 2003 movie that ends with a classroom-turned-band rocking out in a battle of the bands |
| 39% | FOLLICLE | 8 | Small cavity in the skin that a hair grows out of |
| 39% | POSY | 4 | Item in a "pocketful" in the nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" |
| 39% | ELM | 3 | Type of tree that appears in the title of a horror movie franchise |
| 39% | ACORN | 5 | The hard nut of an oak tree that falls in autumn |
| 38% | BOOTS | 5 | Riding ___, equestrian footwear that trotted out of the stables into a fall fashion essential |
| 38% | TEE | 3 | Item that might be knocked out of the ground with a golf shot |
| 38% | UPROOTED | 8 | Like a tree that has been lifted out of the ground |
| 38% | SOBER | 5 | 1993 song by the rock band Tool that features stop-motion animation of a humanoid in the official music video |
| 38% | INSERT | 6 | Ad that falls out of a newspaper |
| 38% | SPAREKEY | 8 | Item that might be hidden under a fake rock in the garden (2 wds.) |
| 38% | TEA | 3 | Item that Kenya exported to the tune of over a billion pounds in 2019 |
| 37% | TARTS | 5 | The Queen of Hearts's output, in a nursery rhyme |
| 37% | TART | 4 | Type of pastry made by the Queen of Hearts, in a nursery rhyme |
| 37% | ANGEL | 5 | ___ Falls, waterfall that is part of the Canaima National Park which is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Venezuela |
| 37% | HEYDIDDLEDIDDLE | 15 | First line of a nursery rhyme about the cow that jumped over the moon |
| 37% | COW | 3 | Animal that jumped over the moon in a nursery rhyme |
| 37% | BOUGH | 5 | *Main branch of a tree that ends the same as 17a, 19a, 34a and 46d, but does not rhyme |
| 36% | TOOTH | 5 | First ___, milestone that might mark the start of solid food in a baby's diet |
| 36% | SPOON | 5 | Utensil that the dish ran away with, in a nursery rhyme |
| 36% | KITE | 4 | Flier that might be of a variety in the shaded squares |
| 36% | ELM | 3 | Tree in the title of a horror film franchise |
| 36% | BONDS | 5 | Treasury items that in 2019 the Trump Administration considered selling with a maturity of 50 years |
| 36% | LEAF | 4 | It falls from a tree in the fall |