| RHYTHMSTICK | 'Hit Me With Your -- --', hit for Ian Dury and the Blockheads (6,5) |
| SHAKEIT | 1979 hit for Ian Matthews |
| MAN | I'm Your - - -, hit for Wham! |
| HIT | ___ Me with Your Rhythm Stick, Ian Dury and the Blockheads song (3) |
| HITME | ___ with Your Rhythm Stick; song by Ian Dury and the Blockheads (3,2) |
| RHYTHM | Type of stick Ian Dury and The Blockheads sang about in 1978 (6) |
| WHATAWASTE | 1978 single by Ian Dury and the Blockheads |
| CHEERFUL | Reasons to be ___, Part 3, 1979 single by Ian Dury and the Blockheads (8) |
| REASONS | _ to be Cheerful, Part 3 1979 song by Ian Dury and the Blockheads (7) |
| LAUGHTER | Third studio album by Ian Dury & The Blockheads, released in 1980 (8) |
| IANDURY | Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick was a hit for ... and the Blockheads (3,4) |
| GENEVINCENT | The man of whom Ian Dury asked, "Shall I mourn your decline with some thunderbird wine/And a black handkerchief?"(4,7) |
| LUCKYSTRIKE | "Your Hit Parade" sponsor |
| GARDENS | "In the deserts of Sudan and the ___ofjapan" , from Ian Dury's "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" (7) |
| MILAN | "From _ _ _ _ _ to Yucatan, every woman, every man", from Ian Dury's "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" (5) |
| BENATAR | "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and "Love Is a Battlefield" singer |
| KARAOKE | Activity where you may take a shot at "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and then take a shot |
| PAT | "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" singer Benatar |
| SHOT | Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best __" |
| LORDEPATBENATAR | *Line 3: "Royals" / "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" |
