| CALABASH | 'Gourd', a little dog, is 'in the money' (8) |
| TAILPIECE | A little dog is put first, and that's the end! |
| PLUTOCRAT | Disney's dog is in the cart for being rich and powerful (9) |
| SQUASH | Word for a close crowd; a crushed mass; fruit cordial; a game named for one of its early rubber spheres that scrunched against a wall; a gourd; a social gathering; or, according to Shakespeare, an unr |
| PUMPKIN | A large edible gourd, a cultivar of the squash |
| PLUMPUP | Choice small dog is swell (5,2) |
| PIQUES | Sound made by little dogs is irritating (6) |
| LAB | Small dog is scalable, but not to scale (3) |
| CASSETTE | Conservative with a small dog almost revealing tape (8) |
| CASBAH | Graduate is in the money in place of the Arabs (6) |
| TANNIN | As ink-maker the girl is in the money |
| OPULENT | Leon put in and is in the money (7) |
| FLUSH | Why the poker player is in the money? (5) |
| SECURE | Spot the dog is in free from danger |
| PEKE | The dog is in top form, you say (4) |
| TITAN | Person of great importance that regularly is in the money (5) |
| LARCENIST | Thief after short escapade is in the money |
| ONE | An individual who is in the money (3) |
| TOUCHANDGO | Large-billed bird swallowed his head, and poor dog is in a critical condition (5,3,2) |
| DIAGNOSIS | Detection of disease as dog is in surgery. (9) |
