| Maestro Riccardo ___ | 20 |
| Longtime La Scala music director | 32 |
| La Scala music director beginning 1986 | 38 |
| La Scala director who resigned in 2005 | 38 |
| Conductor Riccardo ___ | 22 |
| Conductor Ricardo | 17 |
| Chicago Symphony director | 25 |
| Acclaimed Philly conductor | 26 |
| Revolt in the ranks | 19 |
| Maritime crime | 14 |
| Kind of conspiracy | 18 |
| Sailors' uprising | 21 |
| Rebellion on the briny | 22 |
| Potemkin event | 14 |
| Mr. Christian's crime | 25 |
| Fletcher Christian's action | 31 |
| Bounty action | 13 |
| Bligh's problem | 19 |
| Pooch without papers | 20 |
| Pup with no papers | 18 |
| Jeff's partner | 18 |
| Jeff's cartoon comrade | 26 |
| Mongrel canine | 14 |
| Jeff's buddy | 16 |
| Purebred's opposite | 23 |
| Pup without papers | 18 |
| Pound hound | 11 |
| Jeff's pal | 14 |
| Jeff's friend | 17 |
| Canine with a questionable lineage | 34 |
| Pound pick | 10 |
| Paperless pet | 13 |
| Not the finest dog | 18 |
| Jeff's sidekick | 19 |
| Jeff's cohort, in comics | 28 |
| It's far from purebred | 26 |
| Unregistered sort | 17 |
| Unlikely dog for a registry | 27 |
| Unlikely dog for a canine registry | 34 |
| Rescue dog, usually | 19 |
| Pound pup, perhaps | 18 |
| Pound inmate, often | 19 |
| Pound hound, perhaps | 20 |
| Pooch in a pound | 16 |
| Paperless pup | 13 |
| Not Jeff, but his friend | 24 |
| No purebred pooch | 17 |
| Mongrel; cur | 12 |
| Mixed-breed pooch | 17 |
| Mix at the pound | 16 |
| Kennel Club wannabe | 19 |
| Kennel club rejectee | 20 |
| Kennel club reject, no doubt | 28 |
| Jeff's strip buddy | 22 |
| Jeff's partner in comics | 28 |
| Jeff's comic-strip pal | 26 |
| Jeff's comic strip cohort | 29 |
| Jeff's comic strip buddy | 28 |
| Jeff's comic partner | 24 |
| Jeff's cohort | 17 |
| It's part this, part that | 29 |
| It has no papers | 16 |
| Hybrid pooch | 12 |
| Hershfield's Homeless Hector, e.g. | 38 |
| Hershfield's Homeless Hector | 32 |
| Hardly a purebred | 17 |
| Half-and-half, maybe | 20 |
| Dog-show pariah | 15 |
| Dog-show crasher | 16 |
| Dog with no pedigree | 20 |
| Dog that's a little of this, a little of that | 49 |
| Dog for Jeff's friend | 25 |
| Disney's Tramp, for one | 27 |
| Def Leppard producer Robert "___" Lange | 49 |
| Cross that's not well regarded | 34 |
| Comic strip title character with the first name Augustus | 56 |
| Cockerdoodle, e.g. | 18 |
| Certain dog | 11 |
| Bud Fisher cartoon character | 28 |
| Benji, notably | 14 |
| American Kennel Club outcast | 28 |
| A purebred it's not | 23 |
| "Heinz 57" dog | 24 |
| Butcher-shop purchase | 21 |
| Sheep meat | 10 |
| Sheep dish | 10 |
| Oft-served dish in England | 26 |
| Londoner's dish | 19 |
| Unlikely dog show winners | 25 |
| Purebred alternatives | 21 |
| Pound occupants | 15 |
| Pooches sans pedigrees | 22 |
| Patrick McDonnell comic strip | 29 |
| Ones outside established lines? | 31 |
| Fido and friends | 16 |
| They're dispensed by the pound | 34 |
| Stray dogs | 10 |
| Snarleyyows | 11 |
| Purebreds' opposites | 24 |
| Pups without pedigrees | 22 |