| Iditarod team |
Eugene Sheffer |
10 Aug 2026 |
| see 1 Down (4) |
Mirror Quiz |
05 Aug 2026 |
| Canines |
USA Today Quick |
28 Jul 2026 |
| Spaniels and poodles |
Newsday |
28 Jul 2026 |
| Feet, slangily |
LA Times Mini |
17 Jul 2026 |
| See 6-Across |
The Washington Post Mini |
18 Jun 2026 |
| Lady and the Tramp, for two |
|
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| Pointers, perhaps |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
06 Jun 2026 |
| Prairie ___, social rodents that impress their mates by leaping up and letting out an energetic "yip" |
|
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| Hounds and beagles |
Commuter |
01 Jun 2026 |
| Domesticated canines |
Mirror Classic |
29 May 2026 |
| Pets who share 99% of their DNA with gray wolves |
New York Times Midi |
25 Apr 2026 |
| Slang for "feet" |
USA Today |
09 Apr 2026 |
| Pursues - let sleeping ones lie (4) |
The Guardian Quick |
09 Apr 2026 |
| Beagles and bassets |
Thomas Joseph |
31 Mar 2026 |
| Follows party girls on vacation (4) |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Feb 2026 |
| Hounds |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Feb 2026 |
| see 11 Down (4) |
Mirror Quiz |
14 Jan 2026 |
| "War ___" (2016 comedy film starring Jonah Hill) |
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| Follows relentlessly |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Oct 2025 |
| "Reservoir ___," 1992 movie set largely in one location, a warehouse where the characters met after a heist |
|
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| Chihuahuas and collies |
Commuter |
06 Sep 2025 |
| Canines |
The Times Concise |
29 Aug 2025 |
| Pooches |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Aug 2025 |
| Barking pets (4) |
Puzzler |
04 Aug 2025 |
| Beagles and bassets |
Thomas Joseph |
21 Jul 2025 |
| Pointers and poodles |
Newsday |
16 Jul 2025 |
| Poodles and labradors, etc |
|
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| P0 ular pets |
|
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| Activities without popular pets (4) |
|
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| ? pursues note concluding Mikado (G & S) |
|
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| Shadows on the hearth (4) |
|
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| "Reservoir ___," 1992 crime film starring Quentin Tarantino that began as a short film |
|
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| Kibble munchers |
|
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| Canines |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Jun 2025 |
| Follows the hounds |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Jun 2025 |
| Barking animals (4) |
|
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| (& 14-down) What a boxer eats in mess? (4,9) |
|
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| Pet animals |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
15 May 2025 |
| Solves owners' canine problems (___- Behaving (Very) Badly) |
|
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| Certain park rangers? |
|
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| Hit from the Baha Men, Who Let The ... Out? |
|
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| Follows |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Mar 2025 |
| Setters? Mean scoundrels! |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Mar 2025 |
| Raining cats and __ |
Newsday |
03 Mar 2025 |
| Rin Tin Tin and Lassie |
|
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| Animals that the Canary Islands are named after, surprisingly |
|
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| Walked creatures |
|
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| They cause no problems when they sleep |
|
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| Follows pets (4) |
|
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| Pointers, e.g. |
|
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| They have their own Isle, pets (4) |
|
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| Lassie, Scooby-Doo and Toto, e.g. |
The Telegraph Mini |
08 Jan 2025 |
| Poodles and labradors |
|
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| Animals whose "snoots" may be "booped" |
Universal |
04 Jan 2025 |
| "Bluey" characters |
USA Today |
27 Dec 2024 |
| Word that follows For The Love Of to give the title of the show that was presented by Paul O'Grady from 2012 until 2023 (4) |
|
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| Chihuahuas and schnauzers |
|
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| Pursues tenaciously |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Dec 2024 |
| Top ones get the best sausages, presumably (4) |
|
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| Pugs, Poms, and poodles, for example |
|
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| Follows closely and persistently |
|
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| Benji and Rin Tin Tin |
|
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| Pets that are often leashed |
Universal |
29 Nov 2024 |
| Even the gods are disturbed by their wagging ways (4) |
|
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| "Cry Havoc! and let slip the _ of war": Mark Antony, in Julius Caesar (4) |
|
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| Basenjis, beagles, etc. |
USA Today |
29 Oct 2024 |
| Goofy and Pluto |
|
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| Ruination befalls those who go to them (4) |
|
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| Alsatians, say |
|
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| The Netherlands claims it has no stray what? (4) |
|
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| Barking pets |
Puzzler Backwords |
08 Oct 2024 |
| Ruination is the lot of those who go to them (4) |
|
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| Pooches |
Commuter |
26 Sep 2024 |
| They might have bones to pick |
New York Times |
21 Sep 2024 |
| See 4 Down |
Mirror Quiz |
19 Sep 2024 |
| Stalks, shadows (4) |
|
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| Scoundrels perform leads in Gilbert and Sullivan (4) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
16 Sep 2024 |
| Dobermans and Pugs, e.g. |
|
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| Hounds |
Universal |
07 Sep 2024 |
| Torments setters? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Sep 2024 |
| Poodles and cocker spaniels |
|
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| Terriers and hounds |
|
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| Beagles and bassets |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Aug 2024 |
| Corgis, say (4) |
|
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| Dachshunds and Dobermans |
Commuter |
21 Aug 2024 |
| Feet, slangily |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 Jul 2024 |
| Canine pets |
Commuter |
13 Jul 2024 |
| Adult puppies |
|
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| Certainly not champions at Crufts! (9) |
|
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| Second song on the 1977 Pink Floyd album Animals (4) |
|
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| Boxers, for example, perform with good seconds |
|
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| Party guys on vacation - they go where they like! |
|
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| Persistently follows (4) |
|
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| "Reservoir ___" (Tarantino movie) |
|
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| Tail-wagging pets (4) |
|
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| Pointers, perhaps, one follows (4) |
|
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| Raining cats & ... |
|
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| Poodles and boxers |
|
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| Churls |
Wall Street Journal |
21 May 2024 |
| Followers, possibly at sea |
|
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| Dalmatians poodles |
|
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| Canine animals (4) |
|
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| For The Love Of _, ITV show hosted by Alison Hammond (4) |
|
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| (& 4-down) Idiomatic mess (4,9) |
|
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| "All ___ Go to Heaven"; 1989 movie |
|
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| Follow with small domesticated animals (4) |
|
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| They often try to make fetch happen |
|
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| Labs and Basset Hounds |
|
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| Mad _ And Englishmen, Noel Coward song first performed in 1931 (4) |
|
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| Animals initially deprived of good sustenance (4) |
|
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| See 15 Across |
Mirror Quiz |
06 Mar 2024 |
| Cat's enemies |
|
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| Corgis and collies |
LA Times Daily |
12 Feb 2024 |
| Huskies, e.g. |
Premier Sunday |
28 Jan 2024 |
| Hot ___ (barbecue fare) |
|
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| Pets that say "woof" |
USA Today |
13 Jan 2024 |
| TV show that takes place in a small town in the Muscogee Nation |
|
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| Follows relentlessly |
Newsday |
05 Jan 2024 |
| Mutts |
Commuter |
02 Jan 2024 |
| Andirons; animals "for life, not just for Christmas"; or, frankfurters (4) |
|
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| Pursues pets |
Mirror Cryptic |
20 Dec 2023 |
| Mongrels |
Mirror Quick |
20 Dec 2023 |
| Feet, so to speak |
Newsday |
16 Dec 2023 |
| The connection between Straw and Strays (4) |
|
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| Pound inmates |
|
|
| Service animals that attended a relaxed performance of 'Billy Elliot' to learn proper theater behavior |
USA Today |
16 Aug 2023 |
| Prosecute case of gutless scoundrels |
The Telegraph Toughie |
11 Jul 2023 |
| Pooches |
Universal |
15 May 2023 |
| "Reservoir ___," 1992 crime film starring Harvey Keitel as "tough guy" Mr. White |
|
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| Corgis and chow chows |
USA Today |
12 May 2023 |
| Kennel barkers |
LA Times Daily |
01 May 2023 |
| Boxers and pugs |
Newsday |
23 Apr 2023 |
| Iditarod runners |
LA Times Daily |
16 Apr 2023 |
| Feet, facetiously |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Feb 2023 |
| Baha Men's "Who Let the ___ Out" |
|
|
| Hounds, e.g |
LA Times Daily |
08 Jan 2023 |
| "Who Let the ___ Out" (Baha Men song) |
|
|
| "Who Let the ___ Out" |
Universal |
13 Dec 2022 |
| Dachshunds and Dalmatians |
Universal |
06 Dec 2022 |
| __ age |
Newsday |
19 Nov 2022 |
| Pink Floyd song that was originally composed as "You've Got to Be Crazy" and is around 17 minutes long |
|
|
| Some four-legged friends |
Newsday |
21 Oct 2022 |
| Tracks over time |
Newsday |
15 Oct 2022 |
| Follows |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Sep 2022 |
| Shih Tzus, for example |
USA Today |
24 Sep 2022 |
| Some boxers |
LA Times Daily |
21 Aug 2022 |
| Canines |
USA Today |
10 Jul 2022 |
| Relentlessly pursues |
Wall Street Journal |
30 Jun 2022 |
| Feet, slangily |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Jun 2022 |
| Boxers and retrievers, e.g. |
|
|
| The Isle of ___, misnomer for a peninsula in London |
|
|
| Certain park rompers |
|
|
| Hounds those arrested by Boris Godunov, on reflection |
|
|
| What cynophobia is the fear of |
New York Times |
23 Dec 2021 |
| Bassets and beagles |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Dec 2021 |
| Franks |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Dec 2021 |
| They might be gathered by the pound |
New York Times |
26 Nov 2021 |
| Hounds those arrested by Boris Godunov on reflection |
|
|
| Canines |
The Telegraph Quick |
07 Sep 2021 |
| Kennel occupants |
New York Times |
06 Sep 2021 |
| Huskies and such |
USA Today |
04 Sep 2021 |
| Borzoi and Brittany |
LA Times Daily |
19 Aug 2021 |
| Borzoi and Brittany |
|
|
| Hounds |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 Jun 2021 |
| Hounds |
Universal |
20 Jun 2021 |
| Labradors and pugs, for two |
|
|
| Obedience school students |
USA Today |
31 May 2021 |
| Pointers and poodles |
Newsday |
20 Apr 2021 |
| Some are adopted from shelters |
Universal |
10 Apr 2021 |
| Boxers, for example |
Wall Street Journal |
01 Mar 2021 |
| They're in charge (think "top") |
Universal |
09 Feb 2021 |
| Feet, facetiously |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Jan 2021 |
| Many service animals |
USA Today |
22 Jan 2021 |
| Occupants of kennels |
New York Times |
11 Jan 2021 |
| Harasses |
|
|
| Pooches |
Newsday |
25 Oct 2020 |
| Beagles and spaniels |
Newsday |
20 Oct 2020 |
| Hounds, e.g |
|
|
| Hounds, e.g |
LA Times Daily |
11 Oct 2020 |
| Canines |
The Telegraph Quick |
18 Aug 2020 |
| Shadow-boxes the ultimate boxers |
|
|
| Pekes and pugs, e.g |
USA Today |
21 Jun 2020 |
| Pooches |
|
|
| Pooches |
LA Times Daily |
28 Apr 2020 |
| Pooches |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 Apr 2020 |
| Boxers and pugs |
LA Times Daily |
14 Apr 2020 |
| Boxers and pugs |
|
|
| Bassets and beagles |
Thomas Joseph |
16 Mar 2020 |
| Shih Tzus and poodles, e.g. |
|
|
| Pursues relentlessly |
Newsday |
01 Dec 2019 |
| Chow chows and chihuahuas |
New York Times |
21 Oct 2019 |
| Chow chows and chihuahuas |
|
|
| Snoopy and Scooby-Doo |
USA Today |
24 Sep 2019 |
| Ballpark fare |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Sep 2019 |
| Follows pointers? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
18 Jul 2019 |
| Baha Men's "Who Let the ___ Out?" |
|
|
| Feet, slangily |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 May 2019 |
| Creatures featured in 'Best in Show' |
|
|
| Canines |
Family Time |
04 Mar 2019 |
| Feet, informally |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Feb 2019 |
| "Raining cats and ___," weather related idiom that means to rain excessively |
|
|
| Setters and spaniels |
Newsday |
09 Jan 2019 |
| Ballpark fare |
|
|
| Snoopy and Scooby-Doo |
|
|
| Feet, informally |
|
|
| Dalmatians and doberrmans |
Newsday |
03 Dec 2018 |
| Shadows relentlessly |
|
|
| Kennel barkers |
LA Times Daily |
21 May 2018 |
| Kennel barkers |
|
|
| Canines |
Universal |
10 May 2018 |
| Pluto, Scooby-Doo, and 12a, e.g. |
|
|
| Dalmatians, e.g |
LA Times Daily |
05 Mar 2018 |
| Dalmatians, e.g |
|
|
| Feet, slangily |
New York Times |
27 Feb 2018 |
| Some sled-race participants |
Newsday |
23 Feb 2018 |
| Barking pets |
Premier Sunday |
11 Feb 2018 |
| Follows persistently |
|
|
| Barking lot? |
New York Times |
08 Feb 2018 |
| Barking lot? |
|
|
| Canines |
|
|
| Shadows relentlessly |
|
|
| Follows persistently |
|
|
| Kennel barkers |
|
|
| Feet, slangily |
|
|
| Beethoven and the like |
|
|
| Canines |
New York Times |
30 Oct 2017 |
| Poodles and pugs |
Newsday |
10 Sep 2017 |
| Canines |
|
|
| A few pointers, say |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Aug 2017 |
| Beagles and bassets |
Thomas Joseph |
09 Aug 2017 |
| Understands one's love for these pets |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
12 Jul 2017 |
| Ballpark fare |
LA Times Daily |
01 Jun 2017 |
| Ballpark fare |
|
|
| Chases Maltese boxer, possibly |
The Telegraph Toughie |
12 May 2017 |
| Feet, in slang |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Jan 2017 |
| Doing things at the sides for the boxers |
|
|
| Chases sausages when hot |
|
|
| Ballpark fare |
|
|
| Canines |
|
|
| Follows closely with the hounds |
|
|
| Some four-legged friends |
Newsday |
04 Dec 2016 |
| Tracks persistently |
Universal |
22 Nov 2016 |
| Boxers and retrievers |
Universal |
29 Oct 2016 |
| Iditarod team |
Eugene Sheffer |
18 Oct 2016 |
| Sore feet, in slang |
Universal |
29 Aug 2016 |
| Follows relentlessly |
Newsday |
21 Aug 2016 |
| Follows relentlessly |
USA Today |
17 Jul 2016 |
| Feet, in slang |
New York Times |
01 Apr 2016 |
| Some boxers |
|
|
| Follows relentlessly |
|
|
| Tracks persistently |
|
|
| Sore feet, in slang |
|
|
| Boxers and retrievers |
|
|
| Barkers |
Eugene Sheffer |
16 Nov 2015 |
| Snoopy and Scooby-Doo |
|
|
| Lady and the Tramp, e.g |
New York Times |
06 Oct 2015 |
| Feet, slangily |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Sep 2015 |
| Pugs and poodles |
New York Times |
08 Jun 2015 |
| Shih Tzus, e.g |
USA Today |
10 May 2015 |
| Ballpark fare |
New York Times |
22 Jan 2015 |
| Franks |
New York Times |
12 Jan 2015 |
| Lady and the Tramp, e.g. |
|
|
| Pugs and poodles |
|
|
| Feet, slangily |
|
|
| Shih Tzus, e.g. |
|
|
| Franks |
|
|
| Snoopy and Scooby-Doo |
|
|
| Danes, e.g. |
|
|
| Ballpark fare |
|
|
| Isle we go to in hard times |
|
|
| Poker players in tacky paintings |
|
|
| Feet, facetiously |
|
|
| Collies and such |
|
|
| Poodles and pointers |
|
|
| Follows relentlessly |
|
|
| Enthusiastic face-lickers |
|
|
| __ age |
|
|
| Pugs and poodles |
|
|
| Kind of life |
|
|
| Feet, or four-footed friends |
|
|
| Pound group |
|
|
| Boxers who don't box |
|
|
| Vizsla and Weimaraner |
|
|
| Shepherds, perhaps |
|
|
| Pound group |
|
|
| Follows relentlessly |
|
|
| Malamute and mastiff |
|
|
| Hounds |
|
|
| Dalmatian and dachshund |
|
|
| They may be measured by the pound |
|
|
| Feet, in slang |
|
|
| Feet, so to speak |
|
|
| AKC animals |
|
|
| Users of a certain type of park |
|
|
| Westminster entrants |
|
|
| Boxers and others |
|
|
| Tracks |
|
|
| Collies and corgis |
|
|
| Dalmatians and dobermans |
|
|
| Follows persistently |
|
|
| A few pointers, say |
|
|
| Shar-Peis, e.g. |
|
|
| Poker players in kitschy paintings |
|
|
| See 15-Down |
|
|
| Boxers and others |
|
|
| Malamute and mastiff |
|
|
| Malamute and mastiff |
|
|
| Follows persistently |
|
|
| Boxers and bloodhounds |
|
|
| Bassets and spaniels |
|
|
| Canines |
|
|
| Example, for boxers |
|
|
| Canines |
|
|
| Follows closely |
|
|
| They might perform the commands at the starts of 17-, 25-, 41-, and 55-Across |
|
|
| Dalmatian and dachshund |
|
|
| Some boxers |
|
|
| Feet, in slang |
|
|
| For what animals are the Canary Islands named? |
|
|
| Pooches |
|
|
| Cynophobe's fear |
|
|
| Boxers and bloodhounds |
|
|
| Setters and pointers |
|
|
| Feet, in slang |
|
|
| Pointers, say |
|
|
| Kuvasz and borzoi |
|
|
| Shar-Pei and Shih Tzu |
|
|
| Follows |
|
|
| Follows |
|
|
| Pursues relentlessly |
|
|
| Bedevils |
|
|
| Pugs and boxers |
|
|
| Shar-peis, e.g. |
|
|
| Some boxers |
|
|
| Tracks relentlessly |
|
|
| Some boxers |
|
|
| Follows persistently |
|
|
| Scooby-Doo, Benji and Beethoven |
|
|
| Beethoven and Benji |
|
|
| Dalmatians and dobermans |
|
|
| Recipients of the cries seen at the starts of 20-, 36- and 50-Across and 7-Down |
|
|
| Tails relentlessly |
|
|
| Fox-hunt beasts |
|
|
| Boxers and pugs |
|
|
| Pesters persistently |
|
|
| Word with top (head honchos) |
|
|
| Let sleeping ___ lie |
|
|
| Hounds |
|
|
| Failures, in slang |
|
|
| Kind of life |
|
|
| Tracks |
|
|
| Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo |
|
|
| Ruff and Daisy, for two |
|
|
| Lady and the Tramp |
|
|
| Tracks |
|
|
| Kuvasz and komondor |
|
|
| 'All -- Go to Heaven ('89 film)' |
|
|
| Pekes and poodles |
|
|
| Pugs and pekes |
|
|
| "Who let the __ out?" |
|
|
| Boxers and bloodhounds |
|
|
| Follows |
|
|
| Sore feet, slangily |
|
|
| Kind of life |
|
|
| Feet, or four-footed friends |
|
|
| Lead a ___ life |
|
|
| Straw ____ |
|
|
| Feet |
|
|
| Shih Tzus, e.g. |
|
|
| Half of this puzzle's competitors |
|
|
| Snoopy, Odie et al. |
|
|
| Hounds |
|
|
| Boxers or pugs |
|
|
| Pug and pom |
|
|
| Sirius? |
|
|
| Benji and Cujo |
|
|
| Let sleeping ____ lie |
|
|
| Hounds one's footsteps |
|
|
| Hounds |
|
|
| Sore feet |
|
|
| Labradors and Yorkshires |
|
|
| Bedevils, in a way |
|
|
| Franks |
|
|
| Pursues relentlessly |
|
|
| "Franks” |
|
|
| Feet |
|
|
| Popular pets |
|
|
| Follows hostiley |
|
|
| Shadows |
|
|
| ___ breakfast (hodgepodge), in Canada |
|
|
| Barkers |
|
|
| Basenjis and Samoyeds |
|
|
| Malamutes, e.g. |
|
|
| Vizsla and Shih Tzu |
|
|
| Samoyeds and schipperkes |
|
|
| Bassets and spaniels |
|
|
| Follows at heels |
|
|
| Cynologist's specialty |
|
|
| "It's a ___ life!" |
|
|
| "Let slip the ___ of war": Shak. |
|
|
| Salukis, e.g. |
|
|
| Chihuahuas |
|
|
| ___ age (long time) |
|
|
| Pointers, for instance |
|
|
| Pets |
|
|
| Follows constantly |
|
|
| Walker's charges |
|
|
| Pursues. |
|
|
| Whippets. |
|
|
| Kerry blues. |
|
|
| Pointers. |
|
|
| Retrievers. |
|
|
| Salukis. |
|
|
| Symbols of fidelity. |
|
|
| Follows closely. |
|
|
| Tray and others. |
|
|
| Samoyeds. |
|
|
| Hounds. |
|
|
| Andirons. |
|
|
| A ___ age. |
|
|
| Follows insidiously. |
|
|
| Hot ___. |
|
|
| Beagles. |
|
|
| Members of the K-9 Corps. |
|
|
| Boxers. |
|
|
| Boxers, borzois, etc. |
|
|
| Heroes of Terhune's stories. |
|
|
| Borzois. |
|
|