| PIEMAN | Trader met by Simple Simon in a traditional nursery rhyme |
| BOPEEP | Little ____ , character in a traditional nursery rhyme who loses her sheep (2,4) |
| DRURY | Street occupied by the Muffin Man according to a traditional nursery rhyme (5) |
| LANE | Street occupied by the Muffin Man according to a traditional nursery rhyme (4) |
| INSOMNIA | Simon, in a broadcast, revealing the inability to sleep (8) |
| PIES | Wares encountered by Simple Simon |
| LOCKET | Lucy, female in the traditional nursery rhyme who lost her pocket (6) |
| NUTTREE | I Had A Little --- ---, traditional nursery rhyme (3,4) |
| NIMBLE | Traditional nursery rhyme, Jack Be ..., Jack Be Quick |
| LONDONBRIDGE | ____ Is Falling Down, traditional nursery rhyme (6,6) |
| WEDNESDAYS | ____ child, one that is full of woe according to the traditional nursery rhyme (10) |
| PEEP | Little Bo- ---, traditional nursery rhyme (4) |
| ROUND | Here We Go ___ the Mulberry Bush, traditional nursery rhyme (5) |
| POP | '- Goes the Weasel', traditional nursery rhyme from the mid-19th century (3) |
| WEDNESDAYSCHILD | Person full of woe, according to the traditional nursery rhyme (10,5) |
| ORANGESANDLEMONS | Traditional nursery rhyme and singing game about London church bells |
| HEY | "___ Diddle Diddle" (traditional nursery rhyme) |
| LAMPOON | Satirise a politician taken in by simple-minded person (7) |
| GOVERNORGENERAL | Canadian title held by Mary Simon in 2023 |
| GOSOLO | Emulate Paul Simon in 1972 or Harry Styles in 2017 |
