1) Birth 2) Canine offspring 3) Canine young 4) Exclusively Saxon word 5) Exclusively Anglo word 6) Have a puppy 7) Have puppies 8) Impudent boy 9) Impudent youngster 10) Impudent youth 11) Litter mate 12) Newborn puppy 13) Puppy 14) Puppy or cub 15) Sassy kid 16) Sassy youth 17) To give birth 18) Western Aid for 27 Found on https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/whelp
• (n.) A child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt. • (v. t.) To bring forth, as cubs or young; to give birth to. • (v. i.) To bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog and some beasts of prey. • (n.) One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion`s whelps. • (n.) One of the longitudinal... Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/whelp/
Whelp intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Whelped ; present participle & verbal noun Whelping .] To bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog and some beasts of prey. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/28
Whelp transitive verb To bring forth, as cubs or young; to give birth to. « Unless she had whelped it herself, she could not have loved a thing better.» B. Jonson. « Did thy foul fancy whelp so black a scheme?» Young. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/28
Whelp noun [ Anglo-Saxon hwelp ; akin to Dutch welp , G. & Old High German welf , Icelandic hvelpr , Danish hvalp , Swedish valp .] 1. One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps . 'A bear robbed of her Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/28