Possible Clues:

• Republican rule upset American creature
• Animal with tusks and whiskers
• The ___ and the Carpenter (Lewis Carroll)
• Rule about safari initially trapping game creature with big tusks
• The ___ and the Carpenter
• Tusked pinniped mammal
• Right statute upset US Arctic dweller
• Run rule over American big beast
• Sea creature spotted around site of net heading west
• Sea mammal, the morse