Each of the bottom sentences contains a reference to a movie and a breed of dogs, and the solver must realize that each describes a movie title containing a dog breed pun. The blanks above help give enumerations of the titles and are in alphabetical order.
The movie title puns are:
| 1. | After a newly-wed actuary finds his wife cheating on his honeymoon, he finds himself falling in love with a Scottish herding dog. | ALONG CAME COL[L]IE |
| 2. | A small foxhound nicknamed "Beagle on steroids" repeatedly encounters his old college classmate and debates whether men and women can ever be just friends. | WHEN H[A]RRIER MET SALLY |
| 3. | A pointed ear and bushy tailed Alsatian is entangled in a murder investigation involving his former mistress and his driver in post World War II Berlin. | THE GOOD GERMAN [S]HEPHERD |
| 4. | A large, fluffy white dog with an intellectual disability and a brusque lawyer help each other become better parents. | I AM [S]AMOYED |
| 5. | A British spy faces off against a notorious assassin whose signature weapon is a large, long yellow haired dog known for fetching hunted animals. | THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN RETR[I]EVER |
| 6. | A moonlighting master thief pulls off the heist of a large German domestic dog traveling from London to Folkestone. | THE GREAT DAN[E] ROBBERY |
| 7. | A middleweight boxing champion with a wrinkled face and a pushed in nose deals with a violent temperament both inside and outside the ring over a twenty year career. | RAGING BULLD[O]G |
| 8. | An Italian cleaner bred to look like the crest of a German town cares for a twelve year old girl from a dysfunctional family, who becomes his protege. | LEONBE[R]GER: THE PROFESSIONAL |
| 9. | A black spotted dog travels overseas and struggles to fit in with her boyfriend's extremely wealthy family and his disapproving mother. | CRAZY RICH DALMATIAN[S] |
| 10. | A deadbeat Welsh dwarf dog who Got Plenty o' Nuttin' falls in love with a drug-addict and protects her from the local bully. | CORG[I] AND BESS |
| 11. | A literature major enters a contractual relationship with a business magnate involving a tall, slender, smooth-coated racing dog. | FIFTY SHADES OF G[R]EYHOUND |
| 12. | An aspiring actress and a jazz pianist meet and pursue their dreams together in the city of the smallest breed of dogs. | CH[I]HUAHUA LAND |
| 13. | A short-muzzled, curly tailed dog leads a group of misfits and his colony against a gang of marauders in this animated flick. | A P[U]G'S LIFE |
| 14. | A first year jazz student is pushed to his limits by an abusive music instructor when he rehearses a song about the fastest accelerating dog in the world. | WHIPPETLA[S]H |
When a pun is put in the appropriate blanks, the pawprint highlights one letter per pun. Taking these letters and ordering by the description order reveals a clue phrase: LASSIE OR SIRIUS. Lassie is a famous canine movie star and Sirius is nicknamed the “Dog Star”, so the answer is DOGSTAR.