Possible Clues:

• Runs to escape bad-tempered elk
• What a European would call these flipping feckless displays!
• Low energy following small animal
• Mascot of the Winnipeg Jets
• Pitcher Mike Mussina's nickname
• Star athlete in Archie Comics
• Elk wants fluffy dessert, we hear
• Tick seen on old south-east American deer
• Squirrel's cohort, in old toondom
• North Woods denizen