| RPGS | Pastimes featured in "The Adventure Zone," for short |
| ADDER | The "band" in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" |
| PHILEAS | - Fogg; protagonist in the adventure novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (7) |
| AFOOT | Come, Watson, come! The game is ___: Sherlock Holmes first words in The Adventure of the Abbey Grange. (5) |
| BIBLIOPHILE | Role played by Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Empty House" ... |
| SICKMAN | ... in "The Adventure of the Dying Detective" ... |
| WOMAN | ... and in "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone" |
| DERN | Actress best known for her performance as Dr Sattler in the adventure movies, Jurassic Park 1 and 3; |
| PLUMBER | ... in "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" ... |
| SAWYER | Tom -; character in the adventure novels also featuring Huckleberry Finn (6) |
| VENT | Garment slit in the adventure (4) |
| LEDGER | This Aussie actor got his start in the adventure series Roar (Heath ------) |
| SLC | Delta Air Lines hub in the Mountain time zone, for short |
| ESP | Eerie gift in "The Dead Zone," for short |
| TDS | Scores in the end zone, for short |
| INTERLAKEN | Dubbed as the adventure sports capital of Switzerland, a town in the canton of Bern between the lakes of Brienz and Thun, near the Jungfrau mountain region (10) |
| QUICKSAND | The adventure hero was trapped and sinking in this deceptive granular material in Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull |
| AGATHA | Forename of the "Queen of Crime" who wrote the story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and the novel Hercule Poirot's Christmas (6) |
| NAM | Across"The Deer Hunter" war zone, for short |
| TDRUN | Dash to the end zone, for short |
