| BEAT | "...___ the traffic" (avoid traffic) |
| BEAT | "Beauty and a ___" (2012 Justin Bieber song) |
| BEAT | "Beauty and a ___," song by Justin Bieber featuring Nicki Minaj |
| BEAT | "Don't ___ around the bush" |
| BEAT | "Don't ____ --> |
| BEAT | "Feel the ___," 2020 movie about a young dancer named April Dibrina |
| BEAT | "Hollywood ___," influential police show during the '80s |
| BEAT | "I am ___!" ("That completely exhausted me") |
| BEAT | "If you can't ___ 'em, join 'em" |
| BEAT | "My heart skipped a ___ when I saw her" |
| BEAT | "My heart skipped a ___" |
| BEAT | "My heart skipped a ___..." |
| BEAT | "Sunset ____" |
| BEAT | "Turn the ___ Around" (Gloria Estefan song) |
| BEAT | "Turn the ___ Around" (Vicki Sue Robinson song) |
| BEAT | "Turn the ___ Around" (classic disco hit song) |
| BEAT | "Turn the ___ Around" (classic disco hit) |
| BEAT | "Turn the ___ Around" (classic disco song) |
| BEAT | "We Got the ___" (Go-Go's hit from 80s) |
| BEAT | "We Got the ___" (Go-Go's hit of 1982) |
| BEAT | "We Got the ___" (The Go-Go's song covered in Disney's 2020 film "Stargirl") |
| BEAT | "With clues that are difficult to ___..." (2/5) |
| BEAT | "You Can't Stop the ___" ("Hairspray" finale) |
| BEAT | "___ It" (#1 hit for Michael Jackson) |
| BEAT | "___ It" (Michael Jackson hit) |
| BEAT | "___ It" (Michael Jackson song) |
| BEAT | "___ It", Michael Jackson's hit single |
| BEAT | "___ It," 1982 dance anthem by Michael Jackson which surprisingly has a lullaby version |
| BEAT | "___ It," a hit single from Michael Jackson's album in 16a that won a Grammy for "Record of the Year" |
| BEAT | "___ It," song from 14a that won the Grammy for Record of the Year in 1984 |
| BEAT | "___ Street," 1984 musical dance-drama starring Guy Davis, directed by Stan Lathan |
| BEAT | "___ a retreat" (withdraw) |
| BEAT | "___ the Clock" (old game show) |
| BEAT | A drummer keeps it |
| BEAT | About ready to drop |
| BEAT | All in |
| BEAT | Assault physically |
| BEAT | Backing for bars |
| BEAT | Backing track for a rapper |
| BEAT | Be victorious over |
| BEAT | Best in a competition |
| BEAT | Blender speed |
| BEAT | Bone-tired |
| BEAT | Boy to assimilate drum pattern |
| BEAT | Brief pause |
| BEAT | Bushed |
| BEAT | Completely exhausted |
| BEAT | Completely pooped |
| BEAT | Conquer |
| BEAT | Cop's milieu |
| BEAT | Cop's path |
| BEAT | Cop's rounds |
| BEAT | Cop's route |
| BEAT | Dancing stimulus |
| BEAT | Dead tired |
| BEAT | Defeat |
| BEAT | Defeat at a meet |
| BEAT | Defeat in a contest |
| BEAT | Defeat in a match |
| BEAT | Defeat in battle |
| BEAT | Defeat in competition |
| BEAT | Defeat someone |
| BEAT | Defeat, or a word that rhymes with "defeat" |
| BEAT | Defeated |
| BEAT | Defeated in a contest |
| BEAT | Do better than |
| BEAT | Dog-tired |
| BEAT | Done in |
| BEAT | Drubbed or whipped |
| BEAT | Drum emanation |
| BEAT | Drum rhythm of a song |
| BEAT | Drum verb |
| BEAT | Drummer's output |
| BEAT | Drummers keep it |
| BEAT | Drummer’s responsibility |
| BEAT | Edge out |
| BEAT | Electronic musician's composition |
| BEAT | Exhausted |
| BEAT | Exhausted after a long day |
| BEAT | Extremely tired |
| BEAT | Finish ahead of |
| BEAT | Finished ahead of |
| BEAT | Flap wings |
| BEAT | Flatfoot's circuit |
| BEAT | Get off |
| BEAT | Get the better of pulse |
| BEAT | Hammer metal into a shape |
| BEAT | Heart rhythm |
| BEAT | Heart sound |
| BEAT | Heart's rhythm |
| BEAT | Heart's rhythm? |
| BEAT | Hit again and again |
| BEAT | Hit repeatedly |
| BEAT | Homophone for a winter vegetable |
| BEAT | In need of a nap |
| BEAT | Instruction in a meringue recipe |
| BEAT | Jack Kerouac or Allen Ginsberg |
| BEAT | Journalistic sector |
| BEAT | Kerouac or Burroughs |
| BEAT | Kerouac, e.g. |
| BEAT | Knocked out |
| BEAT | Length of a quarter note in 4/4 time |
| BEAT | Lick |
| BEAT | March to the ___ of a different drummer |
| BEAT | Measure of time, in music |
| BEAT | Michael Jackson hit "___ it" |
| BEAT | Michael Jackson's "___ It" |
| BEAT | Mix (eggs) briskly |
| BEAT | Mix, as eggs |
| BEAT | Mixer speed |
| BEAT | Musical cadence |
| BEAT | Musical pulse |
| BEAT | Musical rhythm |
| BEAT | Needing a nap |
| BEAT | Needing to knock off |
| BEAT | Newswriter's specialty |
| BEAT | Outplay |
| BEAT | Outplay, as an opponent |
| BEAT | Outscore |
| BEAT | Overcome |
| BEAT | Pace kept by a drummer |
| BEAT | Patrol found on the borders of 17-, 34-, 43- and 64-Across |
| BEAT | Patrolman's rounds |
| BEAT | Patrolman's route |
| BEAT | Pause in a script |
| BEAT | Play, as a drum |
| BEAT | Play, as drums |
| BEAT | Plumb tuckered out |
| BEAT | Policeman's assigned route |
| BEAT | Pooped |
| BEAT | Pound with hammer |
| BEAT | Pound, like a drum |
| BEAT | Prevailed over |
| BEAT | Pulsate |
| BEAT | Pulsate, like a heart |
| BEAT | Pulse |
| BEAT | Pummel |
| BEAT | Rap producer's creation |
| BEAT | Rapper’s backing track |
| BEAT | Ready for the sack |
| BEAT | Ready to collapse |
| BEAT | Ready to crash |
| BEAT | Ready to drop |
| BEAT | Ready to hit the hay |
| BEAT | Ready to sit down |
| BEAT | Ready to turn in |
| BEAT | Really tired |
| BEAT | Really wiped out |
| BEAT | Recipe direction |
| BEAT | Recipe instruction |
| BEAT | Regular drumming |
| BEAT | Reporter's assignment |
| BEAT | Rhyming synonym for "defeat" |
| BEAT | Rhyming synonym for “defeat” |
| BEAT | Rhythm |
| BEAT | Rhythm for a drummer |
| BEAT | Rhythm of a rap song |
| BEAT | Rhythm of a song |
| BEAT | Rhythm of music that you would listen to during a day of dance classes |
| BEAT | Rhythmic and basic unit of time, in music |
| BEAT | Rhythmic pulse |
| BEAT | Rhythmic sound |
| BEAT | Rhythmic unit that you may keep in mind while composing a disco number |
| BEAT | Rock and roll prerequisite |
| BEAT | Score more points than |
| BEAT | Score more than |
| BEAT | Shellac |
| BEAT | Smack repeatedly |
| BEAT | Something dropped by a DJ |
| BEAT | Something to rap over |
| BEAT | Song's rhythm |
| BEAT | Strike again and again |
| BEAT | Strike repeatedly |
| BEAT | Subdued |
| BEAT | Super exhausted |
| BEAT | Switch |
| BEAT | Tanned |
| BEAT | Tempo |
| BEAT | The B in BPM |
| BEAT | The conductor keeps it |
| BEAT | Thoroughly exhausted |
| BEAT | Thrash |
| BEAT | Throb |
| BEAT | Throb, like a heart |
| BEAT | Thump |
| BEAT | Tired |
| BEAT | Top |
| BEAT | Totally drained |
| BEAT | Totally exhausted |
| BEAT | Totally wiped |
| BEAT | Triumph over |
| BEAT | Trounce |
| BEAT | Trounced, perhaps |
| BEAT | Tuckered out |
| BEAT | Utterly exhausted |
| BEAT | Utterly tired |
| BEAT | Vanquish |
| BEAT | Vanquished |
| BEAT | Verb for heart or drum |
| BEAT | Verb in egg recipes |
| BEAT | Very tired |
| BEAT | Wager has a pulse |
| BEAT | What a drummer keeps |
| BEAT | What a rap producer provides |
| BEAT | What you do to a drum |
| BEAT | Whip |
| BEAT | Whipped cream recipe verb |
| BEAT | Whisk eggs |
| BEAT | Whisk, as eggs |
| BEAT | Wiped out |
| BEAT | With 32-Down, 1950s counterculture figures |
| BEAT | Worn out |
| BEAT | Your heart has a rhythmic one |
| BEAT | ___ a dead horse |
| BEAT | ___ a hasty retreat (leave quickly) |
| BEAT | ___ around the bush |
| BEAT | ___ around the bush (avoid saying something directly) |
| BEAT | ___ around the bush (be evasive) |
| BEAT | ___ around the bush (talk about unimportant things) |
| BEAT | ___ someone to the punch, phrase that originated in boxing that means to anticipate someone's actions |
| BEAT | ___ the heat (stay cool in summertime) |
| BEAT | ____ Generation (Kerouac et al.) |
| BEAT | “If that don’t ___ all!” |
| BEAT | “Turn the ___ Around” (1994 Gloria Estefan hit) |