| 100% | CONTRARY | 8 | English nursery rhyme: "Mary, Mary, Quite __" |
| 99% | CONTRARY | 8 | Famous English nursery rhyme: Mary, Mary, Quite __ |
| 79% | CONTRARY | 8 | Nursery rhyme Mary Mary was quite this |
| 56% | PUMPKIN | 7 | Peter, Peter, __-Eater, old English nursery rhyme |
| 56% | IVES | 4 | St. ___, locale in an English nursery rhyme |
| 56% | SPRAT | 5 | Jack of an old English nursery rhyme |
| 56% | HUMPTY | 6 | __ Dumpty, English nursery rhyme about an egg |
| 54% | LAMB | 4 | Mary's pet, in a nursery rhyme |
| 54% | LAMB | 4 | Mary's follower, in a nursery rhyme |
| 53% | LAMB | 4 | Mary's little pet, in a nursery rhyme |
| 53% | LAMB | 4 | Mary's little follower, in a nursery rhyme |
| 53% | LAMB | 4 | Mary's little friend, from a nursery rhyme |
| 52% | LAMB | 4 | Follower of Mary, in a nursery rhyme |
| 51% | LAMB | 4 | Mary had a little one, as per a nursery rhyme |
| 51% | LAMB | 4 | Animal Mary had according to a nursery rhyme |
| 51% | LAMB | 4 | Critter who follows Mary, in a nursery rhyme |
| 50% | CONTRARY | 8 | How Mary Mary was quite described in the rhyme |
| 50% | LAMB | 4 | Little critter that follows Mary in a nursery rhyme |
| 50% | LAMB | 4 | Little one who follows Mary, in a nursery rhyme |
| 48% | WHOKILLED | 9 | With 59-Across, old English nursery rhyme being investigated by the detectives in this puzzle |
| 48% | LAMB | 4 | Little animal that went everywhere Mary did, in a nursery rhyme |
| 46% | MARY | 4 | "Quite contrary" nursery rhyme girl |
| 46% | MARY | 4 | Nursery rhyme girl who was "quite contrary" |
| 46% | MARY | 4 | Nursery rhyme girl who's "quite contrary" |
| 44% | IVES | 4 | "As I was going to St. ___ ..." (English nursery rhyme) |
| 43% | CONTRARY | 8 | Mary, Mary, quite __ |
| 42% | CONTRARY | 8 | Mary, Mary, quite this |
| 42% | MARY | 4 | Name repeated before “quite contrary,” in a nursery rhyme |
| 41% | CURDS | 5 | Nursery rhyme food |
| 41% | BOPEEP | 6 | Nursery rhyme loser |