| 100% | BAABAA | 6 | Words sung on the same notes as "twinkle," in a different nursery rhyme |
| 42% | ALLY | 4 | Nation that's on the same side as yours in a war |
| 42% | BAA | 3 | Word sung twice before "black sheep" in a nursery rhyme |
| 39% | BURP | 4 | Pat on the back, as a baby (hidden in the word "burpees") |
| 38% | SPADER | 6 | James who won an Emmy two years in a row for the same role on different shows |
| 36% | TEAM | 4 | Group playing on the same side in a sport |
| 36% | REBAG | 5 | Put in a different sack, as at the grocery store |
| 35% | ABCD | 4 | Series sung to the same melody as “twinkle, twinkle” |
| 35% | HUMPTYDUMPTY | 12 | Nursery rhyme about the perils of sitting on a wall |
| 34% | PUN | 3 | Play on the different meanings a word could have |
| 34% | MENE | 4 | Word on a wall, in the Bible |
| 34% | ABCD | 4 | It's sung to the same tune as "Twinkle, twinkle" |
| 34% | ISOMER | 6 | Compound with the same number of atoms in a different arrangement |
| 33% | POSY | 4 | Item in a "pocketful" in the nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" |
| 33% | HOMINID | 7 | A primate in the same family as human beings |
| 33% | MASTERPIECES | 12 | "Mona Lisa" and "Guernica" ... and, in a different way, the last words of 20-, 34- and 42-Across |
| 32% | HUMPTY | 6 | ___ Dumpty, popular nursery rhyme character who was a reformed antagonist in the "Shrek" universe |
| 32% | WHOA | 4 | Word at the start of the chorus in "Livin' on a Prayer" |
| 32% | ALTKEY | 6 | It has the same function as "Option" on a Mac |
| 32% | BAA | 3 | Word repeated before "black sheep," in a nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 32% | LITE | 4 | First word in the rhyming name of a peg toy |
| 32% | TOM | 3 | The piper's son, in a nursery rhyme |
| 32% | ERIE | 4 | City in a county of the same name on a lake of the same name |
| 32% | EYE | 3 | Something involved in a Biblical exchange that, on the face of it, seem the same |
| 32% | WORMS | 5 | City in Germany on the Rhine noted as the seat of imperial diets |
| 32% | ALA | 3 | Words on a menu which means "cooked in the style of": 2 wds. |
| 32% | RACEME | 6 | Flower cluster on a single stem, as in the honey locust |
| 32% | SYNE | 4 | Word sung on the last night of the year |
| 32% | FERRET | 6 | Domestic pet in the same family as a weasel |
| 32% | ABCD | 4 | Snippet sung to the same tune as the lyrics “Twinkle, twinkle” and “Baa, baa, black sheep” |