Possible Clues:

• Pig trotter finally taken from cut of meat
• It's soothed by music, perhaps
• Beauty's mate
• Cruel fellow
• It's very good to be about a creature like this
• Lion, e.g.
• 'Got for pause, by the sound of it, to go with beauty (5)'
• Horror-flick staple
• One soothed by music, perhaps
• Nasty type to get canonised?