| DUTY | Call of ___ , video game franchise that first appeared in 2003 (4) |
| DREDD | Judge, comic book franchise that first appeared in 1977 (5) |
| DOOM | Video game franchise that debuted in 1993 |
| SIMS | With "The," video-game franchise that uses a diamond-shaped "plumbob" to mark a selected character |
| WASP | Insect that first appeared in the Jurassic era |
| EVIL | Resident ___, video game franchise (4) |
| BROS | Super Mario ___ (video game franchise) |
| AUTO | Grand Theft ___ (video game franchise) |
| ALIG | ___ Indahouse, 2002 film featuring a character that first appeared on The 11 O'Clock Show (3,1) |
| LEGEND | ____ Of Zelda, video game franchise that began in 1986 (6) |
| ASONG | English nursery rhyme that first appeared in print in 1744, Sing ... Of Sixpence (1,4) |
| MORTALKOMBAT | Best-selling, violent video game franchise that started in '92 |
| ZELDA | "The Legend of ___" (video game franchise) |
| PERSIA | Prince of ___, video game franchise (6) |
| WAR | "God of ___" (video game franchise) |
| GTA | Video-game franchise that involves stealing cars, familiarly |
| NUMSKULLS | The ___, comic strip, about a team of tiny human-like technicians who live inside heads, that first appeared in The Beezer in 1962 |
| QUESERASERA | --- ---, --- (Whatever Will Be, Will Be), song that first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's film The Man Who Knew Too Much (3,4,4) |
| ICECASTLE | Temporary structure that first appeared in 1740 in St. Petersburg |
| DUNGEONS | ____ & Dragons, fantasy tabletop role-playing game that first appeared in 1974 (8) |
