| 100% | JEFFERS | 7 | Oliver __; Lost and Found children's author |
| 50% | ENIDS | 5 | Children's author Blyton and others |
| 50% | DAVEPELZER | 10 | Author of memoirs A Child Called It and The Lost Boy |
| 49% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Children's author of The BFG and Matilda |
| 48% | ROS | 3 | Children’s-book author and illustrator Asquith |
| 48% | ANTONYMS | 8 | Lost and found, e.g. |
| 48% | NEMO | 4 | Lost and found Pixar fish? |
| 47% | JACQUELINE | 10 | Children's author whose novels include Love Lessons and Candyfloss |
| 47% | ENIDS | 5 | English children's author Blyton and others |
| 47% | TERROR | 6 | __, Franklin's ship lost and found in the Arctic |
| 46% | ALICE | 5 | Child who gets lost in a nonsensical world called Wonderland and must find her way back |
| 46% | ATISKETATASKET | 14 | LOVE LETTER LOST AND FOUND |
| 46% | IDTAG | 5 | Aid in lost and found |
| 45% | BEVERLYCLEARY | 13 | Children's author who wrote the novel "Ramona and Her Mother" (2 wds.) |
| 45% | GALE | 4 | Dorothy ___, child who gets lost in a magical land and must find her way back home |
| 43% | VALERIALUISELLI | 15 | Author of “Lost Children Archive” and “Tell Me How It Ends” |
| 43% | NEMO | 4 | Film fish who was lost and found before Dory |
| 43% | FOUND | 5 | Lost and ___ (place to find missing items) |
| 43% | MILNE | 5 | Children's author who wrote "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" |
| 43% | ALANGARNER | 10 | Author of children's books Elidor and The Moon of Gomrath |
| 42% | BEVERLYCLEARY | 13 | Children's author of 18-Across and 30-Across who turned 102 on April 12 (2 wds.) |
| 42% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Author of 1964 children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| 41% | EIEIO | 5 | Children's song refrain found at the starts of 17-, 26-, 35-, 50- and 57-Across |
| 40% | DICKENS | 7 | Authored Great Expectations and Oliver Twist |
| 40% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Author of the children's book "James and the Giant Peach": 2 wds. |
| 39% | OSH | 3 | ___Kosh B'gosh children's apparel company, founded in Wisconsin in 1895 and now HQed in Atlanta |
| 39% | ODELL | 5 | Children's author Scott |
| 39% | PYLE | 4 | Children's author Howard |
| 39% | BERNIECE | 8 | Children's author ___ Rabe |
| 39% | ESTES | 5 | Children's author Eleanor |