| 100% | INATUB | 6 | Like the three men of the "Rub-a-dub-dub" nursery rhyme | 
| 100% | INATUB | 6 | Like the three men of the “Rub-a-Dub-Dub” nursery rhyme | 
| 64% | INATUB | 6 | Like three men of nursery rhyme | 
| 61% | SINGSONG | 8 | Like the rhythm of a nursery rhyme | 
| 58% | INATUB | 6 | Like "three men" of nursery rhyme | 
| 58% | FALLINGDOWN | 11 | Like the contents of this puzzle's circled squares, in a nursery rhyme | 
| 55% | INATUB | 6 | Like three men of rhyme | 
| 52% | OLD | 3 | Like MacDonald of the nursery rhyme? | 
| 51% | BLIND | 5 | Like three mice in a nursery rhyme | 
| 51% | ARCING | 6 | Like the path of a three pointer | 
| 51% | BINGO | 5 | The "name-o" of a nursery rhyme dog | 
| 49% | TARTS | 5 | The Queen of Hearts's output, in a nursery rhyme | 
| 49% | HUMPTYDUMPTY | 12 | Nursery rhyme about the perils of sitting on a wall | 
| 49% | TUB | 3 | Vessel for three men in a nursery rhyme | 
| 49% | TORUS | 5 | Three-dimensional shape that sounds like a sign of the zodiac | 
| 48% | COEQUAL | 7 | Like the three branches of the U.S. government | 
| 47% | MICE | 4 | Three Blind ___, characters from a nursery rhyme who are seen in the "Shrek" franchise | 
| 47% | ODD | 3 | Like the number of cards in a full house or three of a kind | 
| 47% | LITTLE | 6 | Like the three pigs of fable | 
| 47% | HEARTLESS | 9 | Like the tin man of oz | 
| 47% | TART | 4 | Type of pastry made by the Queen of Hearts, in a nursery rhyme | 
| 46% | TED | 3 | Danson who played one of the three men in "Three Men and a Baby" | 
| 46% | HEYDIDDLEDIDDLE | 15 | First line of a nursery rhyme about the cow that jumped over the moon | 
| 45% | SIDEARM | 7 | Like some baseball pitches ... and a hint to locating the second part of four three-part puzzle answers | 
| 45% | BILLYJOEL | 9 | Singer of the 1973 pop song "The Piano Man," which sounds like a waltz: 2 wds. | 
| 45% | COOL | 4 | Like the other side of the pillow, in a saying | 
| 44% | BUTCHER | 7 | One of the "three men in a tub" | 
| 44% | CRADLE | 6 | Nursery item that falls out of a tree in the rhyme “Rock-a-Bye Baby” | 
| 44% | TOOHOTTOHANDEL | 14 | Like the dog days of summer, for a composer? | 
| 44% | STUBBED | 7 | Like an injured toe, often as a result of wandering to the washroom at three in the morning |