| LIAO | Ashley of "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes" |
| SNOW | "Pure As the Driven ___" (song featured in "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes") |
| VIOLA | The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes actress Davis |
| TISDALE | Ashley of the "High School Musical" franchise |
| BALLAD | "The Hunger Games: The ___ of Songbirds & Snakes" (2023 film) |
| THE | "___ Hunger Games: ___ Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes" |
| CORIOLANUS | With 31-Across, protagonist of "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" |
| AND | "The Ballad of Songbirds ___ Snakes" (May, 2020, Suzanne Collins prequel to the "Hunger Games" trilogy) |
| AGEOF | Series of strategy video games. the first version of which was released in 1997 and covered the period from the Stone Age to the Iron Age (3.2.7) |
| EMPIRES | Series of strategy video games. the first version of which was released in 1997 and covered the period from the Stone Age to the Iron Age |
| DICE | Small objects (polyhedrons) used as implements for gambling and the playing of social games. The most common form is the cube, with each side marked with from one to six small dots (spots). (4) |
| GAELIC | ...... games. the sports played under the auspices of the GAA(6) |
| OSCINE | Of the suborder of songbirds with specialised vocal apparatus (6) |
| OLDHAT | "So... this is what Dumbledore sends his great defender: a songbird and an ____" (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, film version) |
| TEMPLEOFHERA | Before each Games, the Olympic torch is lit using sunbeams at this structure in Greece, which honors the queen of the gods |
| MYTH | Series of computer games, the first of which, published in 1997, was subtitled The Fallen Lords |
| OLSENS | Mary-Kate and Ashley of "Full House" |
| OLSENTWINS | Mary- Kate and Ashley of "Full House" |
| LUIGI | In video games, the brother of Mario (5) |
| MATCHPOINT | In certain ball games, the shot that wins the game (5,5) |
