| 20 answers for: (and 8 across, 24 down) Nursery rhyme (4,3,1,6,4) |
| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| MARYHAD | (and 8 across, 24 down) Nursery rhyme (4,3,1,6,4) |
| HEREWEGO | (and 19 across, 16 down, 24 down) Nursery rhyme and singing game (4,2,2,5,3,8,4) |
| SPREADONESWINGS | Individuals following 8 across, 24 across and leader of sedition get independence (6,3'1,5) |
| LITTLE | (and 13 down) Nursery rhyme (6,4,6) |
| PETER | With 29-Down, nursery rhyme starter |
| SKI | It's a bit riskier to move down nursery slope (3) |
| OUI | French word spelled by the circumflexed letters in this puzzle (in 14-Across/3-Down, 34-Across/24-Down, and 50-Across/42-Down) |
| BOND | Role played by six different actors across 24 films |
| STEP | (and 22 across, 24 down) An example of a 10 across (4) |
| SHORTHANDTYPIST | Secretary to most of those in 26 across, 24 across and 8 across (9,6) |
| UNITED | 2, 6, 9, 10, 21, 24 across, 24 down, 25 - plus 30 others (6,6) |
| ALLTHEFUN | (and 10 Across, 24 Down) Total entertainment - everything being enjoyed by blondes? (3,3,3,2,3,4) |
| CAPTAIN | (& 12-across, 24-down) Top renegade anti-drug, priests assume, making promise to 1-across colleague (7,12) |
| THOR | _: Love and Thunder, 2022 film starring 11 Across, 14 Across, 19 Across, 24 Across & 25 Down (4) |
| AFRAID | 2023 film starring 10 Across, 24 Across, 26 Across and 8 Down (4,2,6) |
| BEAUIS | 2023 film starring 10 Across, 24 Across, 26 Across and 8 Down (4,2,6) |
| ITISNO | (and 16 across, 24 across and 5 down) 17th-century proverb suggesting that what's done is done (2,2,2) |
| ALWAYSLOOKONTHE | (and 12 across, 19 across, 24 across) Song which has become one of the most popular funeral songs (6,4,2,3) |
| TIME | (and 13 across, 24 across, 14 down) Proverb (ignoring the apostrophe) illustrating how the hours seem to speed by during enjoyment (4) |
| DESERT | (and 23 across, 24 across) Long-running BBC Radio 4 programme (6) |
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