| IANDURY | Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick was a hit for ... and the Blockheads (3,4) |
| HEROD | The man with the stick was a child hater (5) |
| AROUSED | Purpose encompassed by a stick was stirring |
| LATHI | A heavy stick was left at home by first individual (5) |
| HIT | ___ Me with Your Rhythm Stick, Ian Dury and the Blockheads song (3) |
| MILAN | "From _ _ _ _ _ to Yucatan, every woman, every man", from Ian Dury's "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" (5) |
| HITME | ___ with Your Rhythm Stick; song by Ian Dury and the Blockheads (3,2) |
| KARAOKE | Activity where you may take a shot at "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and then take a shot |
| BENATAR | "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and "Love Is a Battlefield" singer |
| RHYTHMSTICK | 'Hit Me With Your -- --', hit for Ian Dury and the Blockheads (6,5) |
| ASKAWAY | "Hit me with your questions!" |
| ANGELOU | Poet who wrote "You may shoot me with your words, / You may cut me with your eyes" |
| ASSURES | Guarantees the blockhead will take us round again (7) |
| PATBENATAR | 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot' singer |
| BEST | "Hit Me with Your ___ Shot" |
| PAT | "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" singer Benatar |
| SHOT | Hit me with your best ___ |
| LORDEPATBENATAR | *Line 3: "Royals" / "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" |
| RHYTHM | Type of stick Ian Dury and The Blockheads sang about in 1978 (6) |
| CHEERFUL | Reasons to be ___, Part 3, 1979 single by Ian Dury and the Blockheads (8) |
