| 100% | EATER | 5 | Peter of nursery rhyme, for one |
| 53% | BAA | 3 | First word of a nursery rhyme that ends "And one for the little boy who lives down the lane" |
| 52% | SPRAT | 5 | One of a nursery rhyme couple |
| 52% | KITTEN | 6 | One of a nursery rhyme triad |
| 52% | KITTEN | 6 | One of a nursery rhyme trio |
| 52% | BAKER | 5 | One of a nursery rhyme trio |
| 51% | STAR | 4 | "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little ___," nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 50% | SHADOWS | 7 | More than one of what Wendy sewed on for Peter Pan |
| 50% | CAT | 3 | "The ___ and the Fiddle," nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 49% | SPRAT | 5 | Jack of nursery rhyme |
| 49% | DAW | 3 | Margery ___ of nursery rhyme |
| 49% | SOLOMON | 7 | Grundy of nursery rhyme |
| 49% | COLE | 4 | "King" of nursery rhyme |
| 49% | SPRAT | 5 | Jack of nursery rhymes |
| 49% | DAW | 3 | Margery of nursery rhymes |
| 49% | WALL | 4 | Seat of nursery rhymes |
| 49% | GOOSE | 5 | Mother ___ of nursery rhymes |
| 48% | TSARIST | 7 | Supporter of Peter the Great, for one |
| 48% | DAW | 3 | Margery of nursery rhyme note |
| 48% | BOPEEP | 6 | Tender of nursery rhyme sheep |
| 48% | INAPIE | 6 | Site of nursery rhyme blackbirds |
| 48% | PETER | 5 | Pumpkin eater of nursery rhyme |
| 48% | SPRAT | 5 | Fat-shunner of nursery rhyme |
| 48% | PEASEPORRIDGE | 13 | ''Hot'' meal of nursery rhymes |
| 48% | BOPEEP | 6 | Sheep herder of nursery rhymes |
| 47% | BAA | 3 | Word repeated before "black sheep," in a nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 47% | INATUB | 6 | Like three men of nursery rhyme |
| 47% | INATUB | 6 | Like "three men" of nursery rhyme |
| 47% | GOOSE | 5 | Mother ___ (fictitious author of nursery rhymes) |
| 47% | GOOSE | 5 | Mother ___ (fictitious writer of nursery rhymes) |