| CRUFT | Charles ___, English showman who initiated a now-annual dog show in London in 1886 (5) |
| AVON | Cosmetics company founded in London in 1886 (4) |
| KENNELCLUB | The ____ , body founded in 1873 that oversees canine welfare and dog shows in the UK (6,4) |
| HARRYTRUMAN | He initiated a policy to provide aid to countries threatened by Communism (#33, 1945-53): 2 wds. |
| STARTED | Began or initiated a project or event. (7) |
| FDR | He initiated a new deal |
| READE | Charles ___, English author best known for the historical romance The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) (5) |
| MARKS | One of the two founders in Leeds in 1884 of a (now international) retail chain, d. 1907 (5) |
| DARIO | Ruben ___, Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo |
| LEVEN | Loch near Kinross with a now ruined castle where Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned in 1567 (5) |
| CHONG | Longtime MP Michael who initiated the Reform Act |
| MONET | His house in Giverny is a now a museum |
| FAXES | Transmits a document in a now-obsolete phone-based way |
| SMALT | Glass coloured blue with cobalt oxide; or, its pulverised powder as a now chiefly historical pigment (5) |
| ARIEL | A now controversial statue of prospero and ___ by Eric Gill has adorned the BBC's Broadcasting House since 1933 (5) |
| CHARLES | British showman, originator in 1891 of a famous annual dog show (7,5) |
| EATEN | Like the pizza in a now-empty pizza box |
| MINIATUREPOODLE | Sage, who is this breed of dog, won Best in Show on May 14 at the Westminster Kennel Club's 148th annual dog show |
| ORLON | DuPont's Fiber A, now |
| SAMOA | Islands primarily supporting a now extinct bird |
