| 100% | JOY | 3 | ___ Division ("Love Will Tear Us Apart" band) |
| 80% | JOYDIVISION | 11 | “Love Will Tear Us Apart” band . . . and a hint to each set of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 69% | APART | 5 | "Love Will Tear Us ___" (Joy Division song) |
| 69% | APART | 5 | “Love Will Tear Us ___” (Joy Division song) |
| 62% | INXS | 4 | "Never Tear Us Apart" rock band |
| 61% | APART | 5 | Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us ___" |
| 61% | APART | 5 | Joy Division song "Love Will Tear Us ___" |
| 59% | TEAR | 4 | "Love Will ___ Us Apart" (Joy Division song) |
| 44% | SADE | 4 | "Your Love Is King" band |
| 44% | INXS | 4 | Australian band with the 1988 hit "Never Tear Us Apart" |
| 42% | BEEGEES | 7 | "How Deep Is Your Love" band |
| 41% | PARACHUTE | 9 | US pop band fronted by Will Anderson |
| 41% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose first US hit was "Waterloo" |
| 40% | ROXETTE | 7 | It Must Have Been Love band |
| 40% | MAROON5 | 7 | Band with the 2004 hit "She Will Be Loved" |
| 40% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose first hit in the US was "Waterloo" |
| 39% | REM | 3 | Band whose first hit single was "The One I Love" |
| 39% | VANHALEN | 8 | "Why Can't This Be Love" band, 1986 |
| 39% | GEES | 4 | The Bee ___ ("How Deep Is Your Love" band) |
| 39% | HALEN | 5 | Van ___ ("Why Can't This Be Love" band) |
| 38% | MYGUY | 5 | Fellow "I can't be torn apart from," in a 1964 #1 hit |
| 38% | GUNSNROSES | 10 | US rock band whose 1987 debut album was Appetite for Destruction |
| 38% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose only US #1 hit is 1976's "Dancing Queen" |
| 38% | REM | 3 | Band whose first top-10 hit was "The One I Love" |
| 38% | ABBA | 4 | Swedish pop band whose first US hit was "Waterloo" |
| 37% | THESMITHS | 9 | Band with a 1985 U.K. #1 album titled "Meat Is Murder" |
| 37% | OKLAHOMA | 8 | "People Will Say We're in Love" musical |
| 36% | DRAWINGBOARD | 12 | "After we delineate this sales chart, our stockholders will love us." |
| 36% | SOW | 3 | What Tears for Fears will do to "The Seeds of Love" |
| 36% | EYED | 4 | The Black ___ Peas, band with the hit "Where Is the Love?" |