Related Clues:

• In short, the tail is off the poor brute
• It may keep its tail, even when one shortened it
• 21 across is able to be treated
• E could make this brute well
• The poor brute is cut short without a tail
• Ed could have made it well
• Tiny tot
• Naughty kid
• Certainly not a purebred
• AKC outcast
• Nasty mongrel
• Short, tailless dog
• Mongrel locked in dirty kennel
• Scoundrel pinching half the collector's items
• Mongrel - coward