| 100% | RAIN | 4 | On a spring night, you may hear the pitter-patter of this shower |
| 71% | GRILL | 5 | On a spring night, you may hear the sizzle from this barbecue equipment |
| 71% | FROG | 4 | On a spring night, you may hear the croaking from this leaping amphibian |
| 70% | BEES | 4 | On a spring night, you may hear the buzzing from these honey-making insects |
| 67% | ICE | 3 | On a spring night, you may hear the distant jingle of the retreating ___ cream truck |
| 63% | CRICKET | 7 | On a spring night, you may hear this chirping insect in your garden |
| 62% | CICADA | 6 | On a spring night, you may hear this high-pitched insect in a tree |
| 44% | CLASS | 5 | "___ dismissed," phrase you might hear at the end of a school day |
| 44% | BREATHER | 8 | On a long run you might stop to have one of these |
| 44% | APRIL | 5 | You may get fooled on the first of this month |
| 43% | PEAR | 4 | On the first day of Christmas, your true love may send you a partridge in this "poached fruit" tree |
| 42% | SPOTLIGHT | 9 | This shines on the star of a theater show |
| 42% | ISO | 3 | You might go to the Hilbert Circle Theatre on Monument Circle to hear this (abbr.) |
| 40% | GEESE | 5 | On the sixth day of Christmas, your true love may send you these six "V-shaped fliers"-a laying |
| 39% | GULLIBLE | 8 | How you might feel after reading the third letter of every clue in this puzzle for a secret message |
| 39% | SIRI | 4 | You might hear her talking on the phone |
| 38% | CHANGELANES | 11 | What you might do to pass on an Interstate ... or a phonetic hint to the starts of 18-, 28- and 50-Across |
| 38% | TIPTOE | 6 | You might walk on this at night |
| 38% | CSPAN | 5 | You might see a hearing on it |
| 38% | BIRDS | 5 | On the fourth day of Christmas, your true love may send you these four calling "avians" |
| 38% | RINGS | 5 | On the fifth day of Christmas, your true love may send you these five "engagement pieces" |
| 37% | SSN | 3 | You might provide the "last four" of this, in brief |
| 37% | CHICK | 5 | You may get a peep out of this |
| 37% | YEAST | 5 | You might get a rise out of this |
| 37% | MTS | 3 | You may find a range of these: Abbr. |
| 37% | OBEDIENCESCHOOL | 15 | Command center? ... or where you might hear the starts of 17-, 28- and 49-Across |
| 37% | COFFEE | 6 | "Put that ___ cup down!" warning you might have heard if you ordered a cup of joe at an Ottoman cafe during the 1600s ban |
| 37% | EVITA | 5 | Musical with the song "On This Night of a Thousand Stars" |
| 37% | MEZCO | 5 | ___ Toyz, company that released a Wednesday Doll based on the Netflix series, which may remind you of the "Annabelle" doll |
| 37% | TURTLE | 6 | On the second day of Christmas, your true love may send you these two doves that may "snap" |