| SELASSIE | See tailless canine hero, one revered as god |
| IDEALIST | A drug-taking artist: one revered as a visionary (8) |
| TSAR | Retired artist, one revered as authority (4) |
| LASSIE | Fictional canine hero (6) |
| BALTO | Canine hero of a '95 film |
| IDOL | From Greek for "form" or "shape", word for a false god, effigy, carving or image of a deity, revered as an object of worship; a phantom; or, a celebrity, hero, heroine, superstar etc, greatly admired, |
| TOOTH | In addition, the tailless canine |
| TERRIFIED | Dog's lead put on tailless canine I force inside, trembling? |
| ADOPT | Take up a point about tailless canine (5) |
| ALPACA | In a US city see tailless pack animal |
| CANADAGOOSE | Is lady able to travel round and see tailless bird? (6,5) |
| LOTIC | See tailless parasite in running water |
| SLEAZINESS | See tailless sloth's burying its head in squalor |
| RHODES | Colossus of -, statue once revered as one of the Seven Wonders of the World (6) |
| FINN | Twain's hero - one from northern Europe |
| UNDERTHEGREENWOODTREE | Unwed hero one regretted going off the rails in novel |
| COWARDLYLION | Would-be hero, one only Cold War could provide |
| IVANHOE | Literary hero - one who was terrible weed? |
| IQBAL | Poet and politician revered as the conceptual founder of Pakistan, Muhammad ... |
| OATES | Polar hero, one in old group that's recalled |
