Possible Clues:

• Webster and Beery
• And 14 down, what a beastly burden this bore!
• Just 'ark at it! Not an Ah there at all!
• The nautical family that lacked the ends of 22 across
• To have made this 27 across suffer 1 down would have meant a loss in the family
• And 14 down, where they came in 20 down
• ___ Dove (constellation near Canis Major)
• ''Whose ark?'' response
• There were more than two of this family on board 15 across
• -- Ark (biblical boat)