| GRAHAMSWIFT | Novelist whose "Last Orders" won the 1996 Booker Prize |
| SWIFT | Author of the 1996 Booker Prize winner Last Orders, Graham _ (5) |
| LAST | 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel by Graham Swift (4,6) |
| LASTORDERS | 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel by Graham Swift |
| REDNECK | Les Murray won the 1996 TS Eliot Prize for his work Subhuman ... Poems |
| BARBELL | Pub last-orders signal for the biceps builder (7) |
| ALES | "Co-stars" in the Brit drama Last Orders. |
| ALE | Caine & Co. drank much of this in the touching Last Orders. |
| OFWINTER | Novel by Helen Dunmore that won the 1996 Orange Prize for Fiction (2,6) |
| ASPELL | Novel by Helen Dunmore that won the 1996 Orange Prize for Fiction (1,5) |
| TONI | Kukoc who won the 1996 NBA Sixth Man Award |
| LOMAS | Jonathan ___, English golfer who won the 1996 Chemapol Trophy Czech Open (5) |
| RIIS | Bjarne ___, cyclist who won the 1996 Tour de France (4) |
| NEWYORK | Baseball team that won the 1996 World Series (3,4,7) |
| YANKEES | Baseball team that won the 1996 World Series (3,4,7) |
| DETTORI | Frankie, horserace jockey who won the 1996 Japan Cup on Singspiel (7) |
| ROBERT | Allenby, Australian golfer who won the 1996 English Open (6) |
| TOMLEHMAN | US golfer who won the 1996 Open Championship (3,6) |
| LEHMAN | Golfer Tom who won the 1996 British Open |
| PANIS | French driver who won the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix (5) |
