| ADIL | ___ Ray. British actor who hosts the word-based game show Lingo (4) |
| LINGO | Word-based game show hosted by Chuck Woolery from 2002 to 2007 |
| SCRABBLE | Word-based game played on a board of 225 squares (8) |
| DRAW | Word after Win, Lose Or gives the title of a 19903 Pictionary-based game show (4) |
| DROP | The 100K _, quiz-based game show with Davina McCall (4) |
| SONG | Antique based game show, Going For A _ (4) |
| PETS | ___ Win Prizes, 1990s animal-based game show (4) |
| NAME | "___ That Tune" (music-based game show) |
| TUNE | "Name That ___" (music-based game show) |
| RUSE | Word, based on a hunting term for a detour, turn or other trick made by the quarry to escape the hounds, for a cunning artifice or stratagem (4) |
| DOER | Perpetrator, in cop show lingo |
| PERP | Crime doer, in cop show lingo |
| VICS | Corpses, in cop show lingo |
| PUNS | Word-based jokes (4) |
| READ | Old English deed of "advising, counselling, explaining a dream/riddle", today a spell of bookish perusal, literary immersion, textual interpretation or word-based absorption; or, the printed matter du |
| PATTONOSWALT | Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire actor who hosts the Amazon/Fox game show The 1% Club: 2 wds. |
| DIBS | Knuckle-bones-based game whose name is used as a childish or informal way to assert a prior claim (4) |
| ALANALDA | M*A*S*H and The West Wing actor who hosts the podcast Clear Vivid: 2 wds. |
| STEPHENFRY | Actor who hosts the UK version of quiz show Jeopardy! in its 2024 revival (7,3) |
| KENO | Number-based game of chance |
