| 100% | REGREW | 6 | Came back, as a severed head of the Hydra |
| 52% | RETURNTOTHEFOLD | 15 | Come back as part of a community |
| 46% | REHEEL | 6 | Fix, as the back of a shoe |
| 46% | ENDORSES | 8 | Signs, as the back of a check |
| 46% | ENDORSE | 7 | Sign, as the back of a check |
| 46% | HATHOR | 6 | Egyptian goddess depicted as a woman with the head of a cow |
| 45% | ENDORSED | 8 | Signed for deposit, as the back of a check |
| 45% | FRONT | 5 | Be the head of, as a band |
| 44% | ERASE | 5 | To rub out, as with the back of a pencil |
| 44% | JACKDAW | 7 | Bird of the crow family with a silvery sheen to the back of its head |
| 44% | THOTH | 5 | Egyptian deity depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon |
| 43% | RECUR | 5 | Come back, as a dream |
| 43% | HEEL | 4 | Back part of a golf club head where it bends to join the shaft |
| 42% | REGREW | 6 | Came back, as a lizard’s tail |
| 40% | REENTER | 7 | Come back into, as the atmosphere |
| 40% | REOPEN | 6 | Come back to, as a case |
| 40% | REREAD | 6 | Come back to, as a good book |
| 40% | BHUTAN | 6 | Himalayan country with a head of state known as the Dragon King |
| 40% | CHAIR | 5 | Head, as a committee ... or a word that can follow the ends of 16-, 29-, 36-, 47- and 61-Across |
| 40% | NINE | 4 | Number of heads of the Hydra, in myth |
| 40% | OPERA | 5 | Peter Benchley described it as "where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings" |
| 39% | TAMED | 5 | Subdued, as a messy head of hair |
| 39% | OCCIPUT | 7 | Back of the head |
| 39% | REJOIN | 6 | Come back to, as a club one previously left |
| 39% | ICES | 4 | Treats, as a bump on the head |
| 39% | PRINCIPAL | 9 | The head of a school |
| 39% | CEO | 3 | The head of a company |
| 38% | OVAL | 4 | Shape of the head of a tennis racket |
| 38% | STATS | 5 | Much of the back of a baseball card |
| 38% | WITHERS | 7 | Highest part of the back of a horse |