| 100% | BOYS | 4 | "The ___ Are Back in Town" (Thin Lizzy hit) |
| 85% | ARE | 3 | The Boys __ Back in Town, hit for Thin Lizzy |
| 76% | BOYS | 4 | Thin Lizzy’s “The ___ Are Back in Town” |
| 50% | REAREND | 7 | Hit in the back |
| 49% | ARMY | 4 | "Gee, I Wish I Was Back in the ___" (song from "White Christmas") |
| 49% | FILES | 5 | They might be backed up in the cloud |
| 49% | ARE | 3 | "The Boys __ Back in Town" |
| 47% | KNIFED | 6 | __ in the back, is to be traitorously betrayed |
| 45% | GALLUP | 6 | New Mexico town mentioned in the hit "Route 66" |
| 45% | RETURN | 6 | Hit the ball back after a serve in tennis |
| 45% | NET | 3 | What the ball is hit over in table tennis |
| 45% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose first hit in the US was "Waterloo" |
| 45% | OLDIE | 5 | Hit song from back in the day |
| 45% | PLYMOUTH | 8 | Town in Massachusetts that is known to have celebrated the "First Thanksgiving" |
| 45% | LOSALAMOS | 9 | Town in New Mexico, US, where the first atomic bomb was developed |
| 45% | SIA | 3 | Australian whose first big hit in the US was "Chandelier" |
| 44% | REOPENED | 8 | Was back in business |
| 44% | REOPEN | 6 | Be back in business |
| 44% | PARADEREST | 10 | Drill position in which the hands are clasped behind the back |
| 44% | BUTE | 4 | Island in the Firth of Clyde whose only town is Rothesay |
| 44% | ARLEN | 5 | Fictional Texas town in which "King of the Hill" is set |
| 44% | YMCA | 4 | Song that was a hit for a spell in the 1970s? |
| 44% | RESPECT | 7 | #1 song hit whose title is spelled out in the lyrics |
| 44% | RESPECT | 7 | 1967 #1 hit whose title is spelled out in the lyric |
| 44% | BLOODY | 6 | To be hit in the face may cause this secreting nose |
| 44% | LOB | 3 | Shot where a tennis ball is hit high in the air |
| 44% | SEDATED | 7 | What the Ramones wanted to be in a 1978 hit song |
| 44% | BOYS | 4 | They're "back in town," per a 1976 hit |
| 43% | SINGLE | 6 | The hit in the baseball mantra "A walk is as good as a hit" |
| 43% | DONTYOUWANTME | 13 | The Human League song that was a No. 1 hit in 1982 (4 wds.) |