The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SPRAT , but the solution may also be SIMPLESIMON which is one of the most recent solution (2015 in USA Today).
Nursery-rhyme character crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SPRAT | 18 % | 5 |
| SIMPLESIMON | 15 % | 11 |
| PIEMAN | 8 % | 6 |
| SIMON | 8 % | 5 |
| MARY | 8 % | 4 |
| BOPEEP | 5 % | 6 |
| JILL | 5 % | 4 |
| PETER | 5 % | 5 |
| LADYBUG | 3 % | 7 |
| FUZZYWUZZY | 3 % | 10 |
| OLDKINGCOLE | 3 % | 11 |
| COCKROBIN | 3 % | 9 |
| MRSPRAT | 3 % | 7 |
| BOPEEI | 3 % | 6 |
| PETERPIPER | 3 % | 10 |
| LAMB | 3 % | 4 |
| BOYBLUE | 3 % | 7 |
| TOM | 3 % | 3 |
| MYSONJOHN | 3 % | 9 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Nursery-rhyme character
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- sleeping beauty
- pied piper
- fairy tale
- dracula
Crossword Answer definitions
SPRAT noun- Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SPRAT
- Jack who avoided fat
- Jack with a low-fat diet
- When canned, it's a sardine
- Lean eater
- Jack in a kiddie's rhyme
- Sardine relative
- Type of herring
- Mother Goose dieter
- Young 'un
- Small silvery herring
More clues leading to the result SIMPLESIMON
- Furnisher of pie?
- Pieman's acquaintance
- Nursery rhyme innocent
- Penniless nursery rhyme fellow
- WANTED: Dimwitted loiterer, for pie-tasting without intent to buy
- Pieman meeter of rhyme
- Nursery-rhyme ninny
- Nursery rhyme hero.
- Fabulous fisherman.
- Nursery rhyme character.
More clues leading to the result PIEMAN
- Simon's acquaintance
- Simple Simon met him
- Nursery rhyme vendor
- Nursery rhyme baker
- Simple Simon's merchant
- Simple Simon's acquaintance
- Simple Simon met him going to the fair
- Simple Simon met one
- Whom Simple Simon met
- "Simple Simon met a --..."
More clues leading to the result SIMON
- Garfunkel's ex-partner
- One of The Chipmunks
- Big name in imitation toys?
- "Biloxi Blues" writer
- Do what he says
- Outspoken American Idol judge
- "Hot Fuzz" star Pegg
- David who created "The Wire"
- One-time "American Idol" name
- Carly or Paul
More clues leading to the result MARY
- "Contrary" girl
- "Frankenstein" author Shelley
- Actress Steenburgen
- Abe's wife
- Name repeated in a nursery rhyme
- Pieta figure
- One of the Leakeys
- Elizabeth I's sister
- Oft-hailed woman
- Sis of Elizabeth I
More clues leading to the result BOPEEP
- Little shepherdess
- Famous loser?
- Girl from a nursery rhyme
- Nursery rhyme heroine
- Shepherd of stories
- Storied shepherdess
- Loser of the flock
- Shepherdess of verse
- Shepherdess of rhyme
- Famed flock loser
More clues leading to the result JILL
- Ousted New York Times executive editor Abramson
- Joe Biden's wife
- Jack's tumbling partner
- Second Lady Biden
- She tumbled after Jack, in a rhyme
- Eikenberry of "L.A. Law"
- Noted tumbler
- Tim Taylor's wife on "Home Improvement"
- Jack's hill-climbing mate
- With 21-Across, "Death Wish II" actress
More clues leading to the result PETER
- __ out (exhaust)
- Chief Apostle
- Detective Lord ___ Wimsey
- Falk of "Columbo"
- Nero, the piano player
- __ out (dwindle)
- Man of principle?
- Piper of children's verse
- Cat Tom Sawyer fed painkiller
- Piper or Rabbit
More clues leading to the result LADYBUG
- Spotted beetle
- Diner on aphids
- Beetle that's no gentleman?
- Brightly colored beetle
- "Fly away home" nursery rhyme critter
- Colorful beetle
- Spotted beetle in "James and the Giant Peach"
- Killing one is bad luck
- Entomological good luck symbol
- Aphid predator
More clues leading to the result FUZZYWUZZY
- Nursery rhyme character
- Misnamed bear of verse
- Inaptly named critter of verse
- Kipling poem
- "A first-class fightin' man."
- Kipling hero
- Bear of children's verse
- 1892 Kipling poem
- Hairless creature in a nursery rhyme
- Inaptly named bear of a tongue twister
More clues leading to the result OLDKINGCOLE
- *Pipe-smoking royal
- WANTED: Merry monarch, for smoke pollution with his pipe
- Nursery rhyme character.
- Fiddlers' audience.
- MATURE, FUN-LOVING man, smoker, music lover. Come share a palatial home ...
- Royalty of rhyme
- Merry soul of nursery rhymes
More clues leading to the result COCKROBIN
- See 17-Across (and see circles for the solution to the mystery)
- Birdland homicide victim.
- Nursery rhyme character.
More clues leading to the result MRSPRAT
More clues leading to the result BOPEEI
More clues leading to the result PETERPIPER
- No, he's the pepper guy
- Supplier of relish?
- *Pickled peppers picker
- Harvester of rhyme.
- Pepper picker
- Subject of tongue-twister
- Pickled peppers picker
- Pretty popular pickled peppers picker
- Pickled pepper picker
- Nursery rhyme character
More clues leading to the result LAMB
- Babe in the woods
- Gentle one
- Mary's pet
- Stew meat
- Mary's charge
- Elia was his pen name
- Doner kebab meat
- Young Cotswold
- Young sheep
- Dish served with jelly
More clues leading to the result BOYBLUE
More clues leading to the result TOM
- Male turkey
- Mix or Cruise
- Cat who harries Jerry
- Jerry's toon pursuer
- Huck's pal
- Novelist Robbins
- Cat's pa
- Suri's dad
- Actor Hiddleston
- Actor Sizemore