| BLINDMICE | Three nursery rhyme characters (2) |
| BLIND | Like three nursery rhyme mice |
| INATUB | How three nursery-rhyme merchants went to sea |
| TUB | Place for three nursery rhyme men |
| JACKANDJILL | Nursery rhyme characters (4,3,4) |
| THREE | Nursery rhyme characters find them incredible (5,5,4) |
| MICE | Nursery rhyme characters find them incredible (5,5,4) |
| JACK | What first name connects nursery rhyme characters Sprat or Horner? (4) |
| OLD | Like the nursery-rhyme characters Mother Hubbard and King Cole |
| OLDFATHERHUBBARD | Nursery rhyme character's spouse? |
| HUMPTYDUMPTY | According to some historians, a large cannon that fell from a wall during the English Civil War is the origin of which nursery rhyme character's name? (6,6) |
| BOPEEP | Nursery rhyme character who loses her flock (2-4) |
| SIMPLESIMON | Nursery rhyme character (2) |
| JACKSPRAT | Nursery rhyme character (2) |
| WILLIEWINKIE | Wee nursery rhyme character (2) |
| BOYSINBLUE | Police wrong to stop little nursery rhyme character (4,2,4) |
| WHATAGOODBOYAMI | 'Boy am I good!' What a mixed up nursery rhyme character said (4,1,4,3,2,1) |
| LITTLEBOPOOP | Gossipy nursery rhyme character? |
| WEEWILLIEWINKIE | Nightgown-clad nursery-rhyme character |
| SPRAT | Nursery rhyme character |
