| LITTLEBOPEEP | Nursery rhyme character who “has lost her sheep” |
| ELLENOLENSKA | Character who “has only to walk alone across a drawing room to offend its definitions” in The Age of Innocence |
| MICHELLEDUBOIS | ’Allo ’Allo! character who “shall say zis only once” |
| BOPEEP | "Little" nursery rhyme character who "has lost her sheep" |
| SIMPLESIMON | Nursery rhyme character who met a pie man (6,5) |
| JACKSPRAT | Nursery rhyme character who wasn't on a banting diet (4,5) |
| HUMPTYDUMPTY | Nursery rhyme character who appears in Through the Looking-Glass (6,6) |
| WEEWILLYWINKIE | Nickname for William III and nursery rhyme character who ran through the town |
| ARABELLAMILLER | Young nursery rhyme character who found a furry caterpillar |
| PEEP | Bo-___ (nursery rhyme character who "fell fast asleep") |
| JACKHORNER | Nursery rhyme character who ate a Christmas pie (4,6) |
| BOBBYSHAFTO | Nursery rhyme character who went to sea (5,6) |
| HORNER | Nursery rhyme character who sat in a corner (6) |
| ITSYBITSYSPIDER | Nursery rhyme character who "climbed up the waterspout" |
| LITTLEMISSMUFFET | English nursery rhyme character who "sat on a tuffet" |
| OLDKINGCOLE | Nursery-rhyme character who was a merry old soul (3,4,4) |
| SIMPLE | ____ Simon, nursery rhyme character who met a pieman (6) |
| WILLIEWINKIE | Wee nursery-rhyme character who runs around in his nightgown (6,6) |
| MOTHERHUBBARD | Old --- ---, nursery rhyme character who had a dog (6,7) |
| GRUNDY | Solomon, nursery rhyme character who was born on Monday (6) |