| GOVERNED | Ruled the stray dog should never run loose in it (8) |
| HOTCAR | Dogs should never be left in one ever: 2 wds. |
| POUNDCAKE | A treat for the stray dogs in the enclosure? (5,4) |
| PAYPACKET | Shrilly complain about boat N screw loose in it? |
| SYSTEMSANALYST | Natty lass, messy, let loose in IT post (7,7) |
| CASTAWAY | The stray, after the "Scat!" scampers off (8) |
| APERIENT | A cat or dog should eat nothing foreign as treatment for constipation (8) |
| TRUELOVE | What "never runs smooth," in a 1963 Gene Pitney hit |
| HABSBURG | Austrian royal house which ruled the Holy Roman Empire 1438-1740 (8) |
| ADAMSRIB | Hepburn and Tracy film with the line "Lawyers should never marry other lawyers" |
| TRUJILLO | Rafael _, dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930-61 (8) |
| HOSPITAL | All being well, this should never be used (8) |
| CUSTOMER | Order filed by general whose opinion one should never doubt? |
| MISALIGN | Dress badly, something actor should never do, we're told |
| QIANLONG | Emperor who ruled the Qing dynasty for more than six decades |
| ONESBEST | “One should never put on ____ trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth” (Ibsen) |
| ORGANGRINDERS | Erring dogs ran loose - they play in the streets (5-8) |
| TRAY | It carries the stray, having been headed off (4) |
| SOUGHT | The first of the strays should be searched for (6) |
| ATHEEL | Three articles (one Spanish) where trained dog should be (2,4) |
