| 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 |
| ASKMEWHY | Song by the Beatles originally released as the B-side of their 1963 hit single Please Please Me (3,2 |
| ALTER | Take in or rehem, as a pair of pants |
| FADES | Lightens in color, as a pair of jeans |
| MRBRIGHTSIDE | Which song, originally released in 2003, has spent a record 265 weeks in the UK singles chart? (2,10) |
| YOURETHEWORST | Dramedy that starred Chris Geere and Aya Cash as a pair of terrible people |
| SKELETOR | Arch-enemy of He-Man in Mattel’s Masters of the Universe media franchise |
| NINJA | In a popular media franchise, what type of teenage mutant turtles were Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Donatello? (5) |
| NINTENDO | Game Boy established which company as a leading computer game producer? (8) |
| SHAGGY | Character in the Scooby-Doo franchise originally voiced by radio DJ Casey Kasem (6) |
| DARTH | Character in the Star Wars franchise originally voiced by James Earl Jones, _ Vader (5) |
| 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 |
