| WINNERTAKESALL | ITV game show originally hosted by Jimmy Tarbuck |
| SISSONS | Former Question Time presenter who attended Dovedale Junior School with John Lennon and Jimmy Tarbuck (5,7) |
| PETER | Former Question Time presenter who attended Dovedale Junior School with John Lennon and Jimmy Tarbuck (5,7) |
| LETSMAKEADEAL | Game show originally hosted by Monty Hall |
| BLANK | Blankety-_, game show originally hosted by Terry Wogan (5) |
| CRYSTAL | The _ Maze, resurrected game show originally hosted by Richard O'brien (7) |
| CLUE | Give Us A _, charades game show originally hosted by Michael Aspel (4) |
| GOLD | Going For _, game show originally hosted by Henry Kelly (4) |
| SALE | _ Of The Century, game show originally hosted by Nicholas Parsons (4) |
| DATE | Blind _, game show originally hosted by Cilla Black (4) |
| KRYPTON | 'The - Factor', game show originally hosted by Gordon Burns (7) |
| ITSAKNOCKOUT | Long-running BBC TV game show originally hosted by McDonald Hobley in 1966 (3,1,8) |
| BLINDDATE | ITV show originally hosted by Cilla Black (5,4) |
| KNOCKS | Opportunity --; talent show originally hosted by Hughie Green (6) |
| EGGHEADS | BBC television quiz show originally hosted by Dermot Murnaghan (8) |
| ASKTHEFAMILY | Quiz show originally hosted by Robert Robinson |
| READY | Old BBC cookery show originally hosted by Fern Britton, ----- Steady Cook (5) |
| YOUR | This Is _ Life, biography show originally hosted by Eamonn Andrews (4) |
| FIFTEENTOONE | General knowledge quiz show originally hosted by William G Stewart |
| TRL | Long-running MTV show originally hosted by Carson Daly, for short |