| DRURYLANE | Where the Muffin Man lived in the nursery rhyme |
| DRURY | ___ Lane (where the Muffin Man lives) |
| ALMANDINE | Stone man lived in denial, perhaps (9) |
| LANE | Street occupied by the Muffin Man according to a traditional nursery rhyme (4) |
| TOSIR | "___, I know the muffin man..." |
| ODO | "___ you know the muffin man" |
| OHYES | "___ I know the muffin man. . ." |
| IRONAGE | When the Tollund man lived |
| PALAEOLITHIC | Era in which Neanderthal man lived (12) |
| DUKE | In the nursery rhyme, he marched his men up to the top of the hill and marched them down again; the |
| DUKEOFYORK | In the nursery rhyme, he marched his men to the top of the hill and he marched them down again; the |
| AWIFE | What the farmer takes in the nursery rhyme at the end of which the cheese stands alone (1,4) |
| SATURDAY | Time in the week in which Solomon Grundy died in the nursery rhyme (8) |
| SHOE | In the nursery rhyme, the old woman who had so many children she didn't know what to do lived in one |
| DOWNTHESTAIRS | Where the old man was thrown in the nursery rhyme Goosey Goosey Gander (4,3,6) |
| OLDWOMAN | Who lived in a shoe in the nursery rhyme (3,5) |
| BUTCHER | Tub companion of the baker and the candlestick maker in the nursery rhyme, Rub-a-dub-dub |
| PEASE | In the nursery rhyme, this type of porridge may be hot, cold or in the pot nine days old |
| UNICORN | In the nursery rhyme the lion and this mythical horned horse were fighting for the crown |
| THURSDAY | Time in the week when Solomon Grundy took ill in the nursery rhyme (8) |