Possible Clues:

• What a beastly way to get 'er to put 'er name to it, by the sound of it!
• Might one bear to be like this?
• Describing Pooh or Yogi?
• Like the 17 Across
• Like grizzlies and kodiaks
• Adjective that could be used to describe Paddington
• Like bear furs in enormous boxes
• Like Rupert, possibly, in old city function
• Like the bear in Russia, raised on the borders of Sierra Leone
• Resembling bears