| 100% | RING | 4 | "___ Around the Rosie" (nursery rhyme) |
| 100% | RING | 4 | "___ Around the Rosie," popular nursery rhyme |
| 69% | ROSIE | 5 | Ring Around the ___ (nursery rhyme) |
| 69% | ROSIE | 5 | "Ring Around the ___" (nursery rhyme) |
| 68% | POSY | 4 | Item in a "pocketful" in the nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" |
| 62% | POSY | 4 | "Ring Around the Rosie" flower |
| 61% | ASHES | 5 | Ring around the rosie line; __ to __ |
| 59% | MARY | 4 | Nursery rhyme figure with the lamb |
| 58% | POSIES | 6 | Ring around the rosie, a pocket full of these |
| 58% | ASHES | 5 | "...___! We all fall down!" ("Ring Around the Rosie" lyrics) |
| 58% | SIMPLESIMON | 11 | Nursery rhyme character "going to the fair" |
| 58% | JACKBUILT | 9 | Nursery rhyme: This Is the House that __ |
| 58% | MOBILE | 6 | One hanging around the nursery |
| 57% | ASHES | 5 | Word repeated in "Ring Around The Rosie" before falling down |
| 57% | MICE | 4 | Nursery rhyme victims of the farmer's wife |
| 57% | LONDONBRIDGE | 12 | Nursery rhyme about the hazards of decaying infrastructure |
| 57% | SPIDER | 6 | Kids nursery rhyme: The Itsy Bitsy __ |
| 55% | HUMPTYDUMPTY | 12 | Nursery rhyme about the perils of sitting on a wall |
| 54% | HUMPTYDUMPTY | 12 | Nursery rhyme character in Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass |
| 53% | JACKSPRAT | 9 | Nursery rhyme guy whose last name inspired the answers to starred clues? |
| 51% | YANKEE | 6 | "___ Doodle," popular nursery rhyme song that is the state song of Connecticut |
| 49% | HEYDIDDLEDIDDLE | 15 | First line of a nursery rhyme about the cow that jumped over the moon |
| 49% | MICE | 4 | Three Blind ___, characters from a nursery rhyme who are seen in the "Shrek" franchise |
| 49% | HUMPTY | 6 | ___ Dumpty, popular nursery rhyme character who was a reformed antagonist in the "Shrek" universe |
| 48% | WHOKILLED | 9 | With 59-Across, old English nursery rhyme being investigated by the detectives in this puzzle |
| 48% | STAR | 4 | "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little ___," nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 48% | POP | 3 | "___ Goes the Weasel" (nursery rhyme) |
| 46% | OLD | 3 | Like MacDonald of the nursery rhyme? |
| 46% | CRADLE | 6 | Nursery item that falls out of a tree in the rhyme “Rock-a-Bye Baby” |
| 45% | GRANDOLD | 8 | Adjectives before the nursery rhyme's Duke of York |