| CURT | In short, a mongrel has not much of a tail |
| EEYORE | "It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it" speaker |
| CROSS | A monument in a market square; a mongrel dog; a mark symbolising a kiss in a letter; or, a gesture with one's fingers when wishing for good luck (5) |
| ONEHORSE | The sort of town that has not much power (3-5) |
| MAINE | US state that has not much drama in entertainment (5) |
| MANX | ___ cat, breed with a small stub of a tail (4) |
| BITOFALAD | Youthful rogue has not much ham, lettuce etc - no seconds (3,2,1,3) |
| HABIT | Hospital has not much custom (5) |
| MOG | A tattle, imitative of the chatter of a pie; the pyot itself; a halfpenny; a long-tailed titmouse; or, in short, a glossy or the element with atomic no. 12 (3) |
| PREHENSILE | Of a tail, adapted for grasping (10) |
| BITSER | Australian slang for a contraption or a mongrel dog, made up of "pieces of this and pieces of that" (6) |
| MUTE | Dumb tailless mongrel has energy (4) |
| CURFEW | Mongrel has hardly any prohibition on going abroad |
| INCUR | Popular mongrel has to suffer (5) |
| WAG | Bit of a tail flip |
| MUTATE | Genetically modify a mongrel without a sign of energy (6) |
| MUTT | A slang term for a dog, especially a mongrel (4) |
| CONCUR | Agree it's a reason for not getting a mongrel (6) |
| MUTTER | Grumble about the dog getting more of a mongrel? (6) |
| CURIO | A mongrel at Number Ten? That's a rare thing (5) |
