| TOE | "Piggy", in a nursery rhyme |
| NONE | What the fourth little piggy had, in a nursery rhyme |
| HOTCROSSBUN | "One a penny, two a penny" pastry in a nursery rhyme |
| BANBURY | A cross in which English town is mentioned in a nursery rhyme? (7) |
| NUTTREE | In a nursery rhyme it bore only "a silver nutmeg and a golden pear" (3,4) |
| KINGCOLE | "A merry old soul," in a nursery rhyme |
| TOM | In a nursery rhyme, who stole a pig? (3) |
| POSY | One of a pocketful, in a nursery rhyme |
| MACDONALD | Old man in a nursery rhyme who had a farm (9) |
| UPON | Once this is heard before a time in a nursery rhyme (4) |
| LITTLE | and 13dn: Corner boy at Christmas getting plums from a figure celebrated in a nursery rhyme (6,4,6) |
| LAMB | Animal with a "white as snow" fleece, in a nursery rhyme |
| OLDMACDONALD | Character in a nursery rhyme who owned a farm with many animals (3,9) |
| BANBURYCAKE | A mince pie-like fruited spiced puff pastry confection named after its Oxfordshire birthplace that is recollected in a nursery rhyme (7,4) |
| RYE | What grain fills a pocket in a nursery rhyme? (3) |
| BAKER | Companion of a butcher and candlestick maker in a nursery rhyme |
| DISH | It ran away with a spoon, in a nursery rhyme |
| CHINNYCHINCHIN | Alliterative body part in a nursery rhyme |
| STILE | Crooked site in a nursery rhyme |
| PEASE | Food in a nursery rhyme |
