| POKEMON | Media franchise originally released as a pair of interlinkable Nintendo Game Boy games in 1996 |
| LESMIS | Musical originally released as a French concept album, for short |
| ATLANTA | City of the south-eastern US that hosted the 26th Summer Olympic Games in 1996 (7) |
| ALIDIA | Southampton striker for one game, in 1996, against Leeds (3,3) |
| ALBERTBRIDGE | Boy game to help people across the Thames (6, 6) |
| IWILLSURVIVE | Gloria Gaynor hit originally released as the B-side to a cover version of the Righteous Brothers song Substitute |
| PENDANT | Adornment such as a locket suspended from a necklace; a ceiling light such as a chandelier; or, one of two paintings intended as a pair (7) |
| ALTER | Take in or rehem, as a pair of pants |
| YOURETHEWORST | Dramedy that starred Chris Geere and Aya Cash as a pair of terrible people |
| ASKMEWHY | Song by the Beatles originally released as the B-side of their 1963 hit single Please Please Me (3,2 |
| FADED | Lost color, as a pair of jeans |
| RESOLE | Update, as a pair of shoes |
| UNYOKE | Disjoin, as a pair of oxen |
| SYNC | Align as a pair of audio tracks |
| STEPINTO | Don, as a pair of pants |
| DON | Step into, as a pair of slacks |
| UNYOKES | Releases, as a pair of oxen |
| SHINE | Spiff up, as a pair of shoes |
| OUTGROW | Get too tall for, as a pair of jeans |
| REHEM | Make even shorter, as a pair of pants |
