| VEGAS | Home of Bally's and the Venetian |
| TITIAN | Born near the foot of the Dolomites circa 1490, the Renaissance master of the Venetian school whose works include his seven-metre-high Assunta, Bacchus and Ariadne and the Danae series (6) |
| POUSSIN | French classical artist who painted A Dance to the Music of Time, the Venetian-inspired The Nurture of Bacchus, the pastoral Et in Arcadia ego and The Four Seasons series (7) |
| LOTTO | Artist of the Italian Renaissance trained in the Venetian school who painted Susanna and the Elders and Portrait of a Woman Inspired by Lucretia (5) |
| HOO | Bally's trailer |
| SLOTS | Bally's machines |
| PARKPLACE | Bally's Atlantic City casino encompasses it |
| LAS | Bally's ___ Vegas (casino hotel) |
| GHETTO | This word is derived from the Italian dialect form gheto, "foundry," which refers to the Venetian island where Jews were forced to live during the 16th century. The English term came into use by 1611. |
| GIUDECCA | Island in the Venetian lagoon separated from the main part of the city (8) |
| DECOUPAGE | Derived from an ancient Chinese practice, the art of glueing paper cutouts to wooden furniture to simulate paintings that was popular with the Venetians and later the Victorians (9) |
| UDINE | City at the foot of the Venetian Alps |
| MURANO | Islands at the centre of the Venetian 12 industry (6) |
| KHAN | Kublai -; Chinese emperor of the Yuan dynasty who was served by the Venetian merchant Marco Polo (4) |
| TINTORETTO | Byname of Jacopo Robusti, Mannerist painter of the Venetian school (10) |
| FRANCESCOGUARDI | Italian painter of the Venetian School whose works include the Doge's Feasts series |
| LASVEGASSTRIP | Home to Circus Circus, the Venetian, and Mandalay Bay (3 wds.) |
| LEON | Donna ___, creator of the Venetian detective Guido Brunetti (4) |
| TENTATIVENESS | A bit of hesitation with the Venetian tests (13) |
| BASSANO | Jacopo ___, Italian painter of the Venetian School (7) |
