| GASTROPOD | Pat dogs or different creature |
| SHAPESHIFT | Become a different creature, as someone might in a horror movie |
| SNAKE | Makes rancher become someone with control over a different creature (5,7) |
| CHARMER | Makes rancher become someone with control over a different creature (5,7) |
| CLASSPETS | Fish or hamsters, sometimes (but never dogs or horses!) |
| TRUFFLES | Underground fungi traditionally found by hunters using pigs or dogs; or, cocoadusted chocolates resembling such (8) |
| DOUBLEATEAM | Tennessee Smokies or Portland Sea Dogs ... or what the answers to the starred clues comprise? |
| COTERIE | A clan of prairie dogs; or, a French word, originally for a number of peasants holding land jointly from a lord, that has come to mean an exclusive circle or clique (7) |
| TOYS | Playthings; miniature or "teacup" dogs; or, decorative articles in the 18th century, such as snuffboxes (4) |
| LURCHERS | Greyhounds/sighthounds crossed with collies, terriers or other working dogs; or, an old word for skulkers waiting in concealment (8) |
| YIPS | High-pitched barks of small dogs; or, with definite article, wrist spasms of golfers or other athletes, similar to the "dartitis" of darts players (4) |
| LEADS | A word for chief roles; frames holding the glass of stained-glass or lattice windows; lodes; millraces; principal news stories; sinkers; tethers for dogs; or, wires (5) |
| STAS | Places to buy hot dogs or lemonade |
| SLEDS | Vehicles powered by dogs or gravity |
| RACETRACK | Course for dogs or cycling? (9) |
| PUPS | Young dogs or seals |
| HEIST | Focus of "Reservoir Dogs" or "The Italian Job" |
| COURSER | One hunting with dogs or horse? |
| ATE | Had hot dogs or hamburgers |
| PAWS | Feet of dogs or cats |
