Possible Clues:

• How the southern layer comes up for the living
• They make aliving with all the tricks in a turn of them
• Statesman? I'm also a keeper of wildlife!
• Figurines, often
• Bovines
• Take all tricks in a turn for the living
• Raise criticism in a wild act
• Brutes
• 1-, 2- and 3-Down, e.g.
• Pink Floyd album with the songs "Dogs" and "Sheep"