Related Clues:

• Worthless or bad-tempered dog
• A rotter, by Jove
• He behaves dishonourably
• 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
• How one might aver that the rotter is no more
• A pestiferous half-century of this in Yorkshire (5)
• See you are nothing like 7 down
• Behold, employment for a miserable sucker!
• To have has its tail cut off would have made the brute shorter
• It may have had its tail cut short
• Might the rotter aver that one is rotting? (3)
• If what's in 23 across has a tail, cut it short
• See how brutal you are, by the sound of it