| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| REPEL | Force back | |
| REPULSE | Force back | |
| REVULSE | To pull back with force. | |
| EMPRESS | Take me back to exert force on imperial wife | |
| CONSTRAIN | To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress. | |
| ARMADA | First man and Egyptian god send back Spanish invasion force | |
| NEILARMSTRONG | Mr Alien came back in full force for the man on the moon | |
| RESTEM | To force back against the current; as, to restem their backward course. | |
| BACK | To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen. | |
| REVERBERATE | To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace. | |
| REBOUND | To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. | |
| RESTRAIN | To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb. | |
| MINCE | To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of. | |