Possible Clues:

• HINT FOR SOUNDALIKE #2
• Anti-cruelty movement, and what the answers to the starred clues literally have
• Ram is halting, in trouble -- what is called upon to stop the beast suffering?
• They make sure The Three Bears, for instance, aren't exploited by 7 down and 9 across
• Beasts' legal entitlements
• 9 across is not wrong - school is for those who have Tom's best interests at heart
• Beastly sort has authority to publish book of what Tom can and can't do perhaps
• Brute has authority to publish book of what Tom can and can't do perhaps
• Beast has authority to publish book of what Tom can and can¿t do perhaps
• I'm fine for one spell in a new society's welfare politics