| 100% | DICKYBIRD | 9 | Peter or Paul in the nursery rhyme |
| 52% | WEASEL | 6 | Animal that goes pop in the nursery rhyme |
| 51% | MARGERY | 7 | Lazy woman in the nursery rhyme See saw __ daw |
| 51% | FAIR | 4 | Where Simple Simon was going, in the nursery rhyme |
| 51% | LITTLEDOG | 9 | It laughed in the nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle |
| 51% | MYSHOE | 6 | What was buckled in the nursery rhyme One, two... |
| 50% | MUFFINMAN | 9 | Baker who lives on Drury Lane in the nursery rhyme |
| 50% | SPECTOR | 7 | Paul __, or Peter Baldwin, killer in The Fall |
| 45% | HUMPTYDUMPTY | 12 | Nursery rhyme character in Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass |
| 45% | THEMOON | 7 | The cow jumped over __ in the nursery rhyme |
| 43% | DELL | 4 | "The Farmer in the ___" (nursery rhyme) |
| 43% | DELL | 4 | “The Farmer in the ___” (nursery rhyme) |
| 42% | MICE | 4 | Three Blind ___, characters from a nursery rhyme who are seen in the "Shrek" franchise |
| 42% | HUMPTY | 6 | ___ Dumpty, popular nursery rhyme character who was a reformed antagonist in the "Shrek" universe |
| 42% | TSAR | 4 | Peter or Paul |
| 42% | CZAR | 4 | Peter or Paul |
| 42% | WHOKILLED | 9 | With 59-Across, old English nursery rhyme being investigated by the detectives in this puzzle |
| 41% | POSY | 4 | Item in a "pocketful" in the nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" |
| 41% | TOM | 3 | The piper's son, in a nursery rhyme |
| 41% | SAINT | 5 | Peter or Paul, e.g. |
| 41% | TSAR | 4 | Peter or Paul, e.g. |
| 40% | APOSTLE | 7 | Peter or Paul, but not Mary |
| 40% | TSAR | 4 | Peter or Paul, but not Mary |
| 40% | TSAR | 4 | Peter or Paul (but not Mary) |
| 40% | POPE | 4 | Peter or Paul, but not Mary |
| 40% | DADAS | 5 | Pops in the nursery |
| 40% | TOM | 3 | The piper’s son, in a nursery rhyme |
| 39% | ANKA | 4 | Paul in the Songwriters Hall of Fame |
| 39% | LULLABY | 7 | Soothing song in the nursery |
| 39% | DIAPERGENIE | 11 | Aladdin sidekick in the nursery? |