| 100% | KEMP | 4 | The coarse thread in wool; rhymes with hemp |
| 42% | COLA | 4 | Word rhymed with "Lola," in the Kinks song |
| 42% | COLA | 4 | Soda rhymed with "Lola" in the Kinks song |
| 42% | COLA | 4 | Word rhymed with "Lola" in the Kinks song |
| 41% | STYES | 5 | Afflictions that rhyme with the body parts they're found in |
| 40% | METS | 4 | Team whose name rhymes with two others in the same metropolitan area |
| 40% | RYE | 3 | Word rhymed with "Pie," "dry" and "die," in the "American Pie" chorus |
| 40% | LEVEE | 5 | Embankment that's rhymed with "Chevy" in the chorus to "American Pie" |
| 40% | OTIS | 4 | Name that rhymes with another answer in the same column of the grid |
| 40% | BAA | 3 | Start of a children's rhyme with the line "Have you any wool?" |
| 38% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner whose name rhymes with a Coen brothers film set in the Midwest |
| 38% | SPOON | 5 | Utensil that the dish ran away with, in a nursery rhyme |
| 38% | LENORE | 6 | Name rhymed with “nevermore,” in “The Raven” |
| 38% | PERU | 4 | Country whose name is rhymed with “El Salvador, too,” in the “Animaniacs” song “Yakko’s World” |
| 38% | EYE | 3 | "___ in the Sky," song by the Alan Parsons Project with a rhyming title |
| 37% | WHOKILLED | 9 | With 59-Across, old English nursery rhyme being investigated by the detectives in this puzzle |
| 37% | SCHIO | 5 | Town in Vicenza, Italy east of Lake Garda associated with the wool industry |
| 37% | SCHIO | 5 | Town in Vicenza, Italy, east of Lake Garda associated with the wool industry |
| 37% | SCHIO | 5 | Town in Vicenza, Italy, east of Lake Garda, associated with the wool industry |
| 36% | NAPOLI | 6 | "Old" Italian city that rhymes with "but you see" in the lyrics of the Dean Martin song "That's Amore" |
| 35% | DISH | 4 | It ran away with the spoon, in a nursery rhyme |
| 35% | LENORE | 6 | Woman's name that rhymes with "nevermore" in Poe's "The Raven" |
| 35% | ELEGANT | 7 | Word rhymed with "intelligent" in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" |
| 35% | DISH | 4 | It fled with the spoon, in a rhyme |
| 34% | CAMELOT | 7 | Castle whose name is repeatedly rhymed with “Shalott,” in “The Lady of Shalott” |
| 34% | DISH | 4 | One who ran away with the spoon, in a nursery rhyme |
| 33% | MOD | 3 | Hip, in the '60s (rhymes with "sod") |
| 33% | COLA | 4 | Word rhymed with "Lola," in song |
| 33% | BURR | 4 | Name rhymed with "Sir" in "Hamilton" |
| 33% | LUGE | 4 | Winter Olympic sport which is also a small one or two person sled that rhymes with "huge" and was first played in the 1870s |