| INTERNET | "On the _____, nobody knows you're a dog" (from a Peter Steiner New Yorker cartoon) |
| DOG | "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a ___" (punchline of a classic New Yorker cartoon) |
| ADOG | "On the internet, nobody knows you're ___" (classic New Yorker cartoon caption) |
| BALL | Great fun - if you're a dog (4) |
| UNLEASH | Let go, as a dog from a restraint |
| DESCENDINTO | As a tense scene from a Peter Pan production would do, if a harness broke? (7,4,5) |
| EQUUS | Richard Burton and Jenny Agutter movie of 1977, adapted from a Peter Shaffer play (5) |
| ADOPTED | Like a pet dog from a pound |
| SIBERIANHUSKY | Dog from a cold region of Russia |
| SNAIL | Animal that falls in love with a tape dispenser, in a classic New Yorker cartoon |
| BALALAIKA | One's played with a dog from the south and a dog from Moscow |
| CASTAWAY | Figure in many a New Yorker cartoon |
| STPETER | Figure in many a New Yorker cartoon |
| WASP | Target of many a New Yorker cartoon |
| RETRIEVE | Recover like a dog from the bulk of the River Tees (8) |
| ANDALUSIA | Entering sauna, Dali stewed, and worked on a picture of a dog from here? (9) |
| DESERTED | Like the islands in many New Yorker cartoons |
| SECRETSERVICE | The China nobody knows about is hidden from those doing the snooping (6,7) |
| KNIFEEDGE | On a --- ---, in a situation in which nobody knows what is going to happen next (5-4) |
| MEMO | I didn't get the ___ (Nobody told me) |