| RUMPLETEAZER | One of the cats in T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (12) |
| JELLICLE | Tribe of cats in T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (8) |
| TIFFANYHADDISH | Keanu actress who adopted one of the cats that played Keanu in the film: 2 wds. |
| CHEETAH | One of the cats, each with the cuckoo |
| LEOPARD | Organised pro-deal for one of The Cats (7) |
| ELECTRA | One of the Jellicles in T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (7) |
| NAMING | The - of Cats; poem in T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (6) |
| GINGER | The colour of Macavity in T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (6) |
| MACAVITY | ___ the Mystery Cat, character in T S Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (8) |
| CATS | T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical __" |
| POSSUM | T. S. Eliot's "Old ___'s Book of Practical Cats" |
| ELIOT | T,S, _ , poet who authored the book of light verse Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (5) |
| TSELIOT | Author of Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats (the work that was the inspiration behind the Lloyd Webber musical, Cats) (1,1,5) |
| GUS | "The Theatre Cat" in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T S Eliot |
| DOIDARE | Phrase repeated four times in T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| APRIL | The 'cruellest month' in T. S. Eliot's 1922 modernist poem The Waste Land (5) |
| THAMES | River that "sweats oil and tar" in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" |
| ELEGANT | Word rhymed with "intelligent" in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" |
| TSE | Monogram of author of "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" |
| DRSEUSS | Pen name of the author of The Cat In The Hat (2,5) |
