| DRURYLANE | Street the muffin man lives on, in a popular nursery rhyme |
| DRURY | Lane the Muffin Man lives on |
| MADRAS | Now known as Chennai, the former name of this Indian city lives on in a style of curry |
| POLKA | Bohemian dance with a 2/4 beat, whose name lives on in a rhythmically spaced pattern of often itsy-bitsy dots, correspondingly regular and neat (5) |
| LONDONBRIDGE | Landmark that is 'falling down' in a popular nursery rhyme (6,6) |
| SHOE | Abode for an old woman in a popular nursery rhyme |
| LANE | Street occupied by the Muffin Man according to a traditional nursery rhyme (4) |
| SIMPLESIMON | Figure from a popular nursery rhyme |
| ODO | "___ you know the muffin man" (children's lyric) |
| LITTLEMISS | Popular nursery rhyme featuring a scary spider, ... Muffet (6,4) |
| TOSIR | "___, I know the muffin man..." |
| OHYES | "___ I know the muffin man. . ." |
| POP | Popular nursery rhyme, ... Goes The Weasel |
| ASHRAM | A religious retreat or community in which a Hindu holy man lives |
| JACK | Popular nursery-rhyme name |
| AWAY | "Rain, Rain, Go ___" (popular nursery rhyme) |
| TOPO | "___ the Muffin to Ya" (Elaine's idea for a shop name on a "Seinfeld" episode) |
| DUNLOP | This Scottish inventor's name lives on in companies involved in tyres, tennis, golf etc. (6) |
| VESPUCCI | Explorer whose name lives on in America (8) |
| KAISER | Emperor's spirit lives on in retirement (6) |
