| JACKSPRAT | Half a nursery rhyme couple |
| EENSIE | Half a nursery-rhyme spider's description: Var. |
| SPRAT | One of a nursery rhyme couple |
| SPRATS | Nursery-rhyme couple |
| JACKANDJILL | Nursery rhyme couple (4,3,4) |
| HUBBARD | A winter squash other than the acorn, buttercup/nut, carnival or delicata; or, with "Mother", a loose flowing gown, named after a nursery-rhyme dame with a bare cupboard (7) |
| HOTCROSSBUN | "One a penny, two a penny" pastry in a nursery rhyme |
| NUTTREE | In a nursery rhyme it bore only "a silver nutmeg and a golden pear" (3,4) |
| BAABAABLACKSHEEP | Start of a nursery rhyme on a farm |
| KINGCOLE | "A merry old soul," in a nursery rhyme |
| TOM | In a nursery rhyme, who stole a pig? (3) |
| ITSY | Start of a description of a nursery rhyme spider |
| POSY | One of a pocketful, in a nursery rhyme |
| JACKBENIMBLE | Start of a nursery rhyme featuring a candlestick jumper |
| FLAPJACKANDJILL | Title for a pic of a nursery rhyme hill-climber eating breakfast? |
| MACDONALD | Old man in a nursery rhyme who had a farm (9) |
| UPON | Once this is heard before a time in a nursery rhyme (4) |
| LITTLE | and 13dn: Corner boy at Christmas getting plums from a figure celebrated in a nursery rhyme (6,4,6) |
| CAJOLE | Sweet-talk king from a nursery rhyme, acquiring a piece of jewelry (6) |
| ORANGE | One of the citrus fruits referred toin a nursery rhyme that lists the bells of a number of London churches (6) |
