Rhyme Time Study Guide

Wordplay 1,813 clues | 104 recurring answers
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11 Should-Know
90 Worth Knowing

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Humpty Dumpty 10 Little Boy Blue 8 Georgie Porgie 8

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104 answers | 288 clues
Must-Know (3)
Humpty Dumpty 10x 30.0% stumper $400 avg J:8 DJ:2
J $100 1990 Mother Goose character who sat on a wall & had a great fall
J $500 1995 Lewis Carroll's "egg"head
J $200 2009 Perhaps too much eggnog threw off this character's equilibrium when he had a great fall off a wall
Little Boy Blue 8x 50.0% stumper $450 avg J:7 DJ:1
J $100 1987 Another version has him asleep under a haycock
J $1,000 2020 This fella was under a haystack, fast asleep
J $200 2016 The sheep's in the meadow because this colorful kid is fast asleep under a haystack
Georgie Porgie 8x $350 avg J:7 DJ:1
J $100 1996 This pudding & pie guy kissed the girls & made them cry
J $600 2009 He kissed the girls & made them cry (I smell a lawsuit)
J $200 2003 Rowley Powley seems to be an early aka for this kiss & run guy
Should-Know (11)
Simple Simon 7x 14.3% stumper $386 avg J:6 DJ:1
J $100 1996 He had to show the pieman his money before he could take a taste test
DJ $800 2006 He asked the pieman, "Let me taste your ware"
J $1,000 2018 Last known sighting of this person of interest: talking with bakery salesman while on way to festival
Old Mother Hubbard 7x $414 avg J:7
J $100 1989 Since she had a bare cupboard, hers certainly wasn't a lucky dog, lucky dog
J $500 1993 She went to the tailors to buy her dog a coat, but when she came back, he was riding a goat
J $300 1985 Her dog dies in the 2nd verse, probably from malnutrition
Little Bo Peep 7x $414 avg J:6 DJ:1
J $200 2020 This girl dreamt of her lost sheep bleating
J $500 1988 In the 2nd verse, she "fell fast asleep & dreamt she heard them bleating" but "they were still a-fleeting"
J $200 2010 This shepherdess "took her little crook" to find her flock
Little Miss Muffet 6x $300 avg J:6
J $200 2024 The sudden appearance of an arachnid frightens her off her stool
J $600 2003 She's the subject who sat for the John Everett Millais painting seen here
J $200 2023 Curds & whey are on the menu for this tuffet sitter
Old King Cole 5x $240 avg J:5
J $100 1993 He was "a merry old soul"
J $600 2007 He'd "called for his pipe" & bowl. I knew his 3 fiddlers'd bolt at the sight of my .44. It was time to make my move
J $100 1993 "Oh, there's none so rare as can compare with" him "and his fiddlers three"
Jack 5x 40.0% stumper $460 avg J:5
J $100 1985 Hurdler who was nimble & quick
J $600 2016 He's so fast & acrobatic, this character has no problem clearing a lit taper
J $400 2008 Animal Control today swarmed over "the house that" he "built", finding a tossed dog, a worried cat & a dead rat
Little Jack Horner 4x $325 avg J:4
J $200 2012 This small boy based the perception of his behavior on the removal of a fruit item from pastry
J $300 1996 He's been quoted as saying, "What a good boy am I"
J $400 2000 He indulged in self-congratulation after using his pollex to extract a fruit from a baked food
hodgepodge 4x 25.0% stumper $700 avg J:2 DJ:2
DJ $400 2012 A jumbled mixture; sometimes it's a "Jeopardy!" category
J $600 2021 It can be a heterogeneous mixture of stuff or a category on your favorite quiz show
J $1,000 2019 "Jeopardy! " categories include Potpourri & this 10-letter synonym for "potpourri"
a mai tai 4x 25.0% stumper $400 avg J:4
J $200 2016 Trader Vic is said to have created this cocktail that's made with rum & Curacao
J $600 2019 Let's go tropical with this Polynesian-style cocktail made with rum, Curacao & fruit juices
J $400 DD 2001 Restaurateur Trader Vic created this rum & curacao cocktail
the Three Blind Mice 4x $300 avg J:4
J $100 1994 "Did you ever see such a sight in your life, as" this trio
J $600 2007 Multiple traumas! The wife of a rural man had a carving knife... were these title rodents' tails packed in ice?!
J $100 1989 "They all ran after the farmer's wife"
Jack and Jill 4x $275 avg J:4
J $200 2007 Got this title guy & girl... guy has massive head trauma... girl has contusions from "tumbling after"
J $200 2006 Water was needed; these 2 answered the call... but at a price. This summer, the hill will be conquered... or they'll die trying
J $300 1996 Names shared by 2 blackbirds sitting on a hill & a boy & girl who went up a hill
Worth Knowing (90)
willy-nilly 3 Wee Willie Winkie 3 true blue 3 The Knave of Hearts 3 The Fly 3 the fair 3 the Dream Team 3 Swiss Miss 3 St. Ives 3 Polly 3 plain Jane 3 Jack Sprat & his wife 3 Jack Sprat 3 flower power 3 a mouse house 3 a green bean 3 a cookbook 3 Tom Tom the Piper's son 3 the moon 3 Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater 3 glee 3 Cree 3 a weird beard 3 a shoe 3 a pumpkin shell 3 Vinegar 2 tree 2 toad road 2 The Queen of Hearts 2 the queen 2 The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe 2 The butcher, the baker & the candlestick maker 2 Shake 'N Bake 2 Saturn's patterns 2 salt vault 2 rice price 2 ran away 2 Pumpkin 2 Porridge 2 Polly Flinders 2 pie 2 pickled peppers 2 one ton 2 old gold 2 nearly yearly 2 mutton glutton 2 Michael Finnegan 2 mayday 2 May Day 2 Little Tommy Tucker 2 Little Polly Flinders 2 Little Bo-Peep 2 lee 2 Jill 2 hobnob 2 hive 2 hanky panky 2 Hades' ladies 2 guru 2 Greene's beans 2 Fender bender 2 engrave 2 Dutch clutch 2 dingo lingo 2 contrary 2 chunky monkey 2 Christmas 2 chive 2 black 2 bingo lingo 2 bed head 2 an oyster cloister 2 a snob 2 a sinister minister 2 a mock sock 2 a mime 2 a hobo 2 a half laugh 2 a French trench 2 a freed Swede 2 a fat bat 2 a dapper flapper 2 a chill pill 2 a brown gown 2 a better letter 2 a backpack 2 "Hey Diddle Diddle" 2 Tom, Tom 2 to prime 2 the calico cat 2
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