| 100% | ABATTUTA | 8 | Music notation for returning to tempo, to the beat |
| 44% | ATEMPO | 6 | Returning to the previous speed, in music |
| 40% | PER | 3 | Beats ___ minute (what the music term "BPM" stands for) |
| 40% | PER | 3 | Beats ___ minute (what the dance music term "BPM" stands for) |
| 40% | DEION | 5 | ___ Sanders, NFL player who retired in 2001 but returned to play for the Baltimore Ravens in 2004 |
| 40% | LYNCH | 5 | Marshawn ___, NFL player who retired in 2016 but returned to play for the Oakland Raiders in 2017 |
| 40% | CUNNINGHAM | 10 | Randall ___, NFL player who retired in 1996 but returned to play for the Minnesota Vikings in 1997 |
| 39% | SEATURTLE | 9 | Creature that returns to the beach where it was born for laying eggs |
| 39% | PER | 3 | Beats ___ minute (what the dance music term "BPM" is short for) |
| 39% | MOSS | 4 | Randy ___, NFL player who retired in 2011 but returned to play for the San Francisco 49ers in 2012 |
| 39% | ROB | 3 | ___ Gronkowski, NFL player who retired in 2019 but returned to play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2020 |
| 39% | ALANSILVESTRI | 13 | American composer and conductor who scored music for "Back to the Future": 2 wds. |
| 37% | RADIO | 5 | It was used to play music for the first time in 1906 |
| 37% | BRICUSSE | 8 | Leslie —, winner of a Best Music, Original Song Oscar for Talk to the Animals from Doctor Dolittle |
| 37% | PRESTO | 6 | Music term for very fast tempo |
| 37% | RISEUP | 6 | Return to life from the ashes |
| 37% | INSTEP | 6 | Marching to the beat |
| 37% | DANCE | 5 | Move to the beat |
| 37% | BOP | 3 | Groove to the beat |
| 37% | DANCE | 5 | Groove to the beats |
| 36% | CROSSING | 8 | Spot for pedestrians to get to the other side |
| 36% | SAAR | 4 | Area governed by the League of Nations for 15 years and returned to Germany in a 1935 plebiscite |
| 36% | QUEEREYE | 8 | Reality show whose cast appeared in the music video for Taylor Swift's "You Need to Calm Down" |
| 36% | BACKTOFRONT | 11 | Returned to battlefield in the wrong direction |
| 36% | GROOVED | 7 | Shook it to the beat |
| 36% | ZAYN | 4 | British singer Malik who's the only person to win the "Billboard" Music Award for Top New Artist twice |
| 36% | CHICKS | 6 | The ___, country music group that won a Grammy for their hit song "Not Ready to Make Nice" |
| 36% | SCENE | 5 | Return to the ___ of the crime |
| 36% | EBB | 3 | Return to sea, as the tide |
| 36% | NORMALIZING | 11 | Returning to the standard |