| 100% | HIP | 3 | 1980s hit "___ to Be Square" |
| 77% | HIP | 3 | "___ to Be Square" (Huey Lewis & the News hit) |
| 76% | HIP | 3 | "___ to Be Square" (Huey Lewis and the News hit) |
| 76% | HIP | 3 | "___ to Be Square" (Huey Lewis & the News hit song) |
| 73% | HIP | 3 | "___ to be square," a hit song by Huey Lewis and the News |
| 65% | POISON | 6 | 1980s hair band whose first Top 20 hit was "Talk Dirty to Me" |
| 61% | HUEY | 4 | "Hip to Be Square" singer Lewis |
| 61% | HUEY | 4 | "Hip to Be Square" rocker Lewis |
| 60% | HIP | 3 | "___ to Be Square" (Huey Lewis & the News song) |
| 58% | TEED | 4 | Ready to be hit |
| 58% | TARGETAREA | 10 | Location to be hit |
| 57% | HUEY | 4 | "Hip to Be Square" rock band ___ Lewis and the News |
| 56% | REAL | 4 | "Got to Be ___" (Cheryl Lynn hit) |
| 56% | TEED | 4 | Ready to be hit or kicked |
| 55% | MEANT | 5 | "___ to Be" (Grammy-nominated Bebe Rexha hit song) |
| 54% | TEED | 4 | Ready to be hit, as a golf ball |
| 54% | INLAND | 6 | Less likely to be hit by a hurricane |
| 54% | BLACKJACK | 9 | Activity in which people ask to be hit |
| 54% | PITCH | 5 | It has the potential to be a hit |
| 54% | SEESTARS | 8 | React to being hit on the head, perhaps |
| 54% | NOONE | 5 | "___ Is to Blame" (1986 hit) |
| 53% | BLOODY | 6 | To be hit in the face may cause this secreting nose |
| 53% | TOTO | 4 | 1980s band whose biggest hit was "Africa" |
| 52% | AUTUMNLEAVES | 12 | *The sole piano instrumental to be a #1 Billboard hit |
| 52% | SLEEPER | 7 | Stage show that turns out to be an unexpected hit |
| 52% | TEE | 3 | Cannon projectile that you might want to be hit by |
| 52% | THATCHER | 8 | The only person to be UK PM in the 1980s |
| 52% | ROOT | 4 | Square ___ (what 4 is to 16, for example) |
| 52% | TORPEDOED | 9 | To have been hit with an underwater weapon |
| 51% | MEANT | 5 | "___ To Be," pop-country hit by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line |