| 100% | SYNTHS | 6 | Prominent instruments in the Pet Shop Boys’ “West End Girls” |
| 45% | PET | 3 | ___ Shop Boys ("West End Girls" band) |
| 45% | PET | 3 | ___ Shop Boys ("West End Girls" duo) |
| 44% | END | 3 | Pet Shop Boys song "West ___ Girls" |
| 44% | EAST | 4 | "___ End boys and West End girls" (Pet Shop Boys lyric) |
| 43% | END | 3 | "West ___ Girls" (1986 #1 hit for the Pet Shop Boys) |
| 43% | PET | 3 | "West End Girls" band ___ Shop Boys |
| 41% | PLEASE | 6 | The Pet Shop Boys' politely named debut album |
| 41% | NEIL | 4 | Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys |
| 41% | NEIL | 4 | Singer Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys |
| 41% | ETC | 3 | "Love ___," song by the Pet Shop Boys |
| 39% | PET | 3 | ___ Shop Boys (duo who sang "West End Girls") |
| 37% | WEST | 4 | With 56-Across and 57-Across, Pet Shop Boys #1 song with the lyrics "In every city, in every nation / From Lake Geneva to the Finland Station" |
| 37% | LOOS | 4 | Johns in the West End |
| 37% | END | 3 | "West ___ Girls" (1984 Pet Shop Boys song) |
| 37% | SOHO | 4 | Thus laugh in the West End |
| 36% | WEST | 4 | "___ End Girls" (No. 1 hit for Pet Shop Boys) |
| 36% | LIBRA | 5 | Andreas Vollenweider, Jon Secada, or the Pet Shop Boys' Chris Lowe, say (all born on October 4) |
| 35% | ALICE | 5 | The girl who ended up in Wonderland |
| 35% | CAT | 3 | Mungojerrie, or Rumpleteazer, in the 1981 London West End production |
| 34% | DUO | 3 | Indigo Girls or Pet Shop Boys, for example |
| 33% | DOMINODANCING | 13 | Pet Shop Boys Top 20 song with the lyrics "Watch them all fall down (All day, all day)" (2 wds.) |
| 33% | ROSALIND | 8 | Girl in the play As You Like It disguised as a boy |
| 32% | END | 3 | "West ___ Girls" (Pet Shop Boys hit) |
| 32% | TEEN | 4 | Boy or girl in the throes of adolescence? |
| 32% | ITSASIN | 7 | Pet Shop Boys song |
| 32% | END | 3 | "West ___ Girls" (Pet Shop Boys hit song) |
| 32% | DUO | 3 | Pet Shop Boys, e.g. |
| 32% | POPDUO | 6 | Pet Shop Boys, e.g. |
| 32% | SITAR | 5 | Prominent instrument in raga music |