| POSY | One in a pocketful, according to Mother Goose |
| SUPERMAN | Film, according to mother, carried by star |
| MICE | Some of the specimens returned out of sight and endless according to Mother |
| RYE | A pocketful, in rhyme |
| CYANIDE | In Agatha Christie's A Pocketful of Rye, what poison killed Mrs Fortescue? (7) |
| BAKEDINAPIE | "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocketful of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds ..." (5,2,1,3) |
| CAPRA | Director of "A Pocketful of Miracles" |
| INERT | Like a pocketful of krypton |
| POSIES | Small bunches of flowers (a pocketful?) (6) |
| LOAF | It's more than a pocketful of rye |
| ERGO | Consequently one may read it in Mother Goose |
| LOYE | Ravel's "Ma MAA¨re ___," a k a "Mother Goose" |
| SPOON | Utensil in a Mother Goose rhyme |
| OGRE | Monster one may read about in Mother Goose |
| BAA | Sound repeated before "black sheep," in a Mother Goose rhyme |
| GREENAWAY | Illustrator of "toy books", including Marigold Garden, Mother Goose and Under the Window, who was the daughter of an engraver and a milliner, and a friend of John Ruskin (9) |
| GREENAPPLES | "God didn't make little ... and it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summer time; There's no such thing as Doctor Seuss, Disneyland and Mother Goose is no nursery rhyme" (5,6) |
| ONCEI | "___ saw a little bird ..." (Mother Goose rhyme) |
| DAME | Panto character in Mother Goose finale (4) |
| ACAKE | Follower of "pat" in Mother Goose |
