| EKLUND | Per, winner of the Swedish Rally in the 1976 World Rallying Championships (6) |
| BENCH | Johnny, Cincinnati Reds baseball player who was the 1976 World Series MVP (5) |
| LENIN | A Red Square rally in the centre moving left |
| QATAR | Country's queen at a rally, in the front (5) |
| STIGBLOMQVIST | 1984 world rallying champion (4,9) |
| HANNU | Mr. Mikkola, 1983 world rallying champion (5) |
| ARI | Mr. Vatanen, 1981 world rallying champion (3) |
| ORACLE | Co-founder of the company Larry Ellison saw a $26 billion surge in net worth after a stock rally in June 2024, making him the world's second-richest person. (6) |
| ANDERS | First name of the Swedish physicist and astronomer Celsius (6) |
| CROWNS | Meaning of the Swedish kronor and Danish/Norwegian kroner (6) |
| FINLAY | Frank, actor who starred in the 1976 TV version of Bouquet Of Barbed Wire (6) |
| AUGUST | First name of the Swedish composer Strindberg (6) |
| ASTRAL | Fast rally in part of the stars (6) |
| ACIDLY | Fellow describing police at end of rally in a caustic manner (6) |
| HAMILL | Dorothy ___, U.S. skater who won gold in the women's figure skating in the 1976 Winter Olympics at Innsbruck (6) |
| REMICK | Lee, U.S. actress who played Damien's mother in the 1976 horror film The Omen (6) |
| LAUREN | ****** Bacall, US actress who starred in the 1976 western 'The Shootist' (6) |
| ALBERT | First name of Ronnie Barker's Arkwright in the 1976-85 BBC sitcom Open All Hours (6) |
| RANDLE | _____ McMurphy, institutional inmate in the 1976 film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (6) |
| PER | 1976 Swedish Rally winner in the World Rally Championships (3,6) |
