| 100% | MONSTER | 7 | What a child may think is under the [puzzle's central image] |
| 89% | DUSTBUNNY | 9 | What a parent may think is under the [puzzle's central image] |
| 43% | TOOTH | 5 | What a child may hide under a pillow |
| 43% | MAIN | 4 | What a town's central street may be named |
| 41% | PRESENT | 7 | What might be set under the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 39% | SOAPBUBBLES | 11 | Products of a child's wand, and what are literally rising in this puzzle's circles |
| 38% | QRCIU | 5 | What the listener might think 16-Across's name is? |
| 38% | MEANDMYSHADROE | 14 | What a person about to eat fish eggs might be thinking? |
| 37% | EGGS | 4 | What the six geese might be a-laying |
| 37% | ORE | 3 | What may be under a mountaintop |
| 37% | BRA | 3 | What might be under a top |
| 37% | ALICE | 5 | Children's character who asks herself "And what is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?" |
| 37% | EJECT | 5 | What a fighter pilot might do from the cockpit if the plane is hit |
| 36% | TIPPYTOE | 8 | What a child may stand on |
| 36% | STOLEN | 6 | What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be |
| 36% | TINSEL | 6 | What might be hung from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 36% | GARLAND | 7 | What might be draped from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 36% | LIGHTS | 6 | What might be strung from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 36% | HER | 3 | (4/7) He couldn't stop thinking about [2013 sci-fi rom-com starring Joaquin Phoenix]...or what may be the fourth sentence in a romantic story |
| 36% | NANA | 4 | What a child might call her grandmother |
| 36% | MAMA | 4 | What a child might call their mother |
| 36% | PAPA | 4 | What a child might call her father |
| 36% | SHIP | 4 | What a fool might be using to cross the sea, according to a Grateful Dead song? |
| 36% | ASL | 3 | What might be seen in the corner of a TV screen: Abbr. |
| 36% | YOUREMISSINGOUT | 15 | "That's a lost opportunity," and what can be said to the writer of four clues in this puzzle |
| 36% | TRAIN | 5 | What a child might call a "choo-choo" |
| 35% | MOUSE | 5 | It might be under the paw of a cat ... or a computer user |
| 35% | SLAYINGSLOW | 11 | What Buffy might be doing at the end of a long, hard night? |
| 35% | ROADRAGE | 8 | What you might think "The Fast and the Furious" is about? |
| 35% | DRYEYE | 6 | What there may not be "in the house" during a tearjerker |