| FAREWELLADDRESS | George Washington composition, 1796 |
| LODI | 1796 Napoleonic battle site |
| OLIVER | 1796-1800 Chief Justice Ellsworth |
| SMALLPOXVACCINE | Discovery by Edward Jenner in 1796 |
| PAPALSTATES | Napoleon I conquered them in 1796 |
| HIGHSPEEDCHASE | Supreme racer (1796-1811) |
| COROT | French landscape painter, 1796-1875 (5) |
| OPPONENT | Adams, to Jefferson, in 1796 |
| BURNS | Tam o' Shanter poet, d. 1796 (5) |
| THRO | 1796 song, "Comin' ___ the Rye" |
| CATHERINETHEGREAT | Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796 |
| LITTLECORPORAL | What nickname did Bonaparte gain after the battle of Lodi in 1796? (6,8) |
| LIEUTENANT | Major-General John Graves Simcoe (b.1752 - d.1806) ...from 1791 to 1796, the first ___ Governor of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario) |
| THEOMEN | 1796 horror film starring Lee Remick and Gregory Peck (3,4) |
| CAMILLA | Novel by Frances Burney, first published in 1796 (7) |
| JOSEPHINE | Empress of France as wife of Napoleon Bonaparte from 1796 to 1809 |
| OCONNOR | Feargus --, 1796-1855, a leader of the Chartist movement (1'6) |
| JENNER | Edward ___, English surgeon who discovered a vaccination for smallpox in 1796 (6) |
| STRATHCLYDE | Scottish university founded in 1796 as the Anderson Institute (11) |
| FRANKLIN | Massachusetts birthplace of Horace Mann (born May 4, 1796) |