| 100% | DUCK | 4 | Lower the head to avoid being hit |
| 53% | SEESTARS | 8 | React to being hit on the head, perhaps |
| 46% | NECK | 4 | "I connect the head to the rest of the body. Who am I?" |
| 45% | IMMUNITY | 8 | Privilege sought by castaways on 47-Across to avoid being "voted off the island" |
| 44% | HIP | 3 | "___ to Be Square" (Huey Lewis & the News hit) |
| 43% | KNELT | 5 | Lowered oneself to the ground in order to be knighted |
| 43% | HIP | 3 | "___ to Be Square" (Huey Lewis and the News hit) |
| 43% | HIP | 3 | "___ to Be Square" (Huey Lewis & the News hit song) |
| 43% | DRUMSTICK | 9 | Wooden piece used to hit the batter head |
| 43% | NEWYORK | 7 | US city to which the Titanic was headed |
| 43% | BLOODY | 6 | To be hit in the face may cause this secreting nose |
| 42% | UPPERCUT | 8 | Boxing blow that starts low to hit the chin |
| 42% | DOLDRUMS | 8 | In low spirit, to be in the __ |
| 42% | WIT | 3 | Sarcasm is said to be the lowest form of it |
| 42% | STEPPENWOLF | 11 | Rock band with the 1968 hit "Born to Be Wild" |
| 42% | ORA | 3 | British singer Rita ___ with the hit "How to be Lonely" |
| 42% | SEDAKA | 6 | Neil with the hit "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" |
| 41% | HIP | 3 | "___ to be square," a hit song by Huey Lewis and the News |
| 41% | WIT | 3 | A pun is said to be the lowest form of this |
| 41% | CLOSETOYOU | 10 | Where the Carpenters "long to be" in a 1970 #1 hit |
| 41% | BEBE | 4 | ___ Rexha, pop singer with the 2017 #2 hit "Meant to Be" |
| 41% | INEEDLOVE | 9 | 1987 hit said to be the first hip-hop love song |
| 41% | SEDATED | 7 | What the Ramones wanted to be in a 1978 hit song |
| 41% | DOITAGAIN | 9 | *Steely Dan hit that was the opening track to their debut album |
| 40% | PITCH | 5 | It has the potential to be a hit |
| 40% | GONG | 4 | A massive bell that is hit with a mallet, usually used to signify the start of something |
| 40% | NAIL | 4 | Something to hit on the head |
| 40% | BREAK | 5 | Oof the exams are behind you! Time to head home for the spring ___! |
| 40% | AROD | 4 | Former Yankee who was the youngest MLB player to hit 600 home runs |
| 40% | OTT | 3 | Mel who was the first N.L.'er to hit 500 home runs |