| 100% | APIE | 4 | "Baked in _____" (nursery rhyme phrase) |
| 96% | APIE | 4 | What 24 nursery rhyme blackbirds were baked in |
| 91% | PIE | 3 | What "four and twenty blackbirds" were baked in, in a nursery rhyme |
| 79% | FOURANDTWENTYMERLS | 18 | Nursery rhyme "ingredients," in Crosswordville |
| 78% | KINGCOLE | 8 | Old __, a "merry old soul" in nursery rhyme |
| 75% | INAPIE | 6 | Where some nursery rhyme baking occurs |
| 74% | H/DUMPTY | 8 | Nursery rhyme character known as Lille Trille in Denmark |
| 73% | MARY | 4 | Nursery rhyme name that's said twice in a row |
| 71% | HUMPTYDUMPTY | 12 | Nursery rhyme character in Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass |
| 70% | ASHOE | 5 | What the old woman of nursery rhyme fame lived in |
| 65% | PEASE | 5 | Food in a nursery rhyme |
| 65% | PEASE | 5 | Vegetable in a nursery rhyme |
| 65% | PIGGIES | 7 | Quintet in a nursery rhyme |
| 65% | PEASES | 6 | Porridges in a nursery rhyme |
| 65% | SPRAT | 5 | Jack in a nursery rhyme |
| 65% | IVES | 4 | Saint in a nursery rhyme |
| 65% | COW | 3 | Jumper in a nursery rhyme |
| 65% | POSIES | 6 | Pocketful in a nursery rhyme |
| 65% | MICE | 4 | Three Blind ___, characters from a nursery rhyme who are seen in the "Shrek" franchise |
| 65% | HUMPTY | 6 | ___ Dumpty, popular nursery rhyme character who was a reformed antagonist in the "Shrek" universe |
| 65% | JACK | 4 | Boy in many nursery rhymes |
| 63% | POSY | 4 | One in a nursery rhyme pocketful |
| 63% | POSIES | 6 | Pocketful, in a nursery rhyme |
| 63% | WHOKILLED | 9 | With 59-Across, old English nursery rhyme being investigated by the detectives in this puzzle |
| 63% | TOE | 3 | Piggy, in a nursery rhyme |
| 63% | TOE | 3 | "Piggy" in a nursery rhyme |
| 60% | TOM | 3 | Name repeated in a nursery rhyme |
| 60% | STILE | 5 | Crooked site in a nursery rhyme |
| 60% | MARY | 4 | Name repeated in a nursery rhyme |
| 60% | GEORGIE | 7 | Title boy in a nursery rhyme |