Related Clues:

• A low worthless dog
• Inferior dog or one of mixed breed
• Worthless or bad-tempered dog
• It might have a tail that you could cut short
• It may have a tail, only to shorten it
• If it had a tail one might shorten it
• See you are nothing like 7 down
• To have has its tail cut off would have made the brute shorter
• It may have had its tail cut short
• If what's in 23 across has a tail, cut it short
• See how brutal you are, by the sound of it
• The brute has its tail cut short
• With a tail to make the brute shorter
• In short, the tail is off the poor brute
• It may keep its tail, even when one shortened it