| WILMA | Soviet sprinters saw plenty of her gold-medal-winning back at the 1964 Rome Games, ___ Rudolph (5) |
| PSEUDOEPHEDRINE | Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan was stripped of her gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics after testing positive for this decongestant drug |
| BORZOV | Valery, Soviet sprinter who won gold in the 100 and 200 metres at the 1972 Munich Olympics (6) |
| BANKVAULT | Where Simone Biles might keep her gold medals? |
| SNELL | At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, which Peter won the gold medal in both the 800m and 1500m races? (5) |
| TOKYO | Dawn Fraser won her third gold medal for the 100m freestyle at the 1964 Olympics, held in this Japan |
| EDDIE | & 9D Driver born in Pennsylvania, US, who died in a crash at the 1964 Indianapolis 500 (5,5) |
| MOLLY | English pole vaulter who won a silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, _ Caudery (5) |
| UPEND | Winning back position the other way (5) |
| GIJOE | He debuted at the 1964 Toy Fair (2 wds.) |
| LENNY | Rock star who plays Cinna in The Hunger Games, ___ Kravitz (5) |
| QUOIT | Ring used for games ___ leave nothing in the middle (5) |
| PEETA | "The Hunger Games" ___ Mellark (homophone of an animal rights group) |
| AFOOT | Can you complete this quote from Shakespeare's Henry V? "The game's _" (5) |
| BEGIN | Let the games ___! |
| SHEIK | The ___ (Rudolph Valentino movie) |
| UNTIL | "It' s all fun and games___ |
| MASON | Steelers quarterback ___ Rudolph |
| PACKER | Ann - - -, British former athlete who won a gold medal in the 800m and a silver in the 400m at the 1964 Olympics (6) |
| ANNPACKER | British athlete who won gold in the 800m and silver in the 400m at the 1964 Olympics (3,6) |
