| SCOOBYDOO | Clue in Bow and the dog who might solve it? (6,3) |
| DETECTIVE | Investigator who might solve mysteries (9) |
| BORDERTERRIER | Dog who might have engaged in action near the Tweed? |
| WONTONTON | 1976 film directed by Michael Winner, '-, The Dog Who Saved Hollywood' (3,3,3) |
| FARLEYMOWAT | The Dog Who Wouldn't Be author (6,5) |
| AMIDSHIPS | Halfway between the bow and the stern |
| REDSETTER | Trot with me and the dog (3,6) |
| SPARETIME | When you might solve a puzzle |
| ASCHAM | Author of Toxophilus ("Lover of the Bow") and The Schoolmaster who tutored Lady Jane Grey, Mary I and Elizabeth I in their youth (6) |
| ENIGMA | Game to get in and solve it? (6) |
| CURATE | It belongs to the clergyman and the dog swallowed it! |
| LIES | "The check is in the mail" and "The dog ate my homework," famously |
| PUBS | The Woolpack, the Queen Vic, and The Dog, for example (4) |
| RIDDLE | Having a brain like a sieve, can you solve it? (6) |
| GROWLER | A cab and the dog angered by it? |
| ROOSTER | Chinese Zodiac sign situated between the Monkey and the Dog |
| FORSYTH | Author who wrote Day of the Jackal and The Dogs of War (7) |
| ENGINE | On track to solve it? (6) |
| PENCIL | In ___ (How some might solve the Star's puzzles) |
| NAMASTE | Greeting said with a bow and the palms together |
