Referring Clues

• Jivers
• Jive men
• Long-running Broadway show
• Hipsters
• Familiars, often
• Siamese and Persian
• Notable opening of 10/7/82
• See 46-Across
• "Memory" musical
• Lions and tigers
• Be-boppers
• See 48-Down
• Noted debut of 10/7/82
• "Cool" ones
• Broadway debut of 10/7/82
• Noted Broadway debut of 10/7/82
• Alley tally
• Broadway hit with 7,000+ performances
• See 3-Down
• Jaguars, e.g.
• Musical based on poems by T. S. Eliot
• Longest-running show in Broadway history until 1/9/06
• Meowers
• Tabbies
• Cool guys
• Burmese and others
• Musical with the song "Mr. Mistoffelees"
• Lloyd Webber musical
• Panthers, jaguars, etc.
• Felines
• Black Halloween critters
• Musical featuring Mungojerrie and Rum Tum Tugger
• Rodent exterminators
• "Memories" show
• Longest-running Broadway show
• Andrew Lloyd Webber smash
• Beatniks
• Meowsical?
• Scratching post users
• Jazz devotees
• Broadway's Grizabella and Macavity
• Andrew Lloyd Webber hit
• Ailurophobe's fear
• Some Persians and Abyssinians
• Musical with Grizabella and Growltiger
• Andrew Lloyd Webber show that ran for 7,485 performances on Broadway
• Litter box users
• "Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer" musical
• "Phantom" surpassed it as the longest-running Broadway musical
• Musical with the character Jennyanydots
• Adult 43-Acrosses
• Felix, Garfield et al.
• Pets that purr
• Lloyd Webber score
• "Memory" musical
• Jazz lovers
• Household pets
• Cool dudes
• 1983 Tony best musical
• Broadway hit since '82
• Noted Broadway debut, October 1982
• Jellicle Ball attendees
• Once Broadway's longest-running show
• Cool guys, to Sammy Davis Jr.
• It debuted on Broadway in October 1982
• Lions, panthers and jaguars, e.g.
• Tigers and tabbies
• Play with "Memory"
• Webber musical
• It features "Memory"
• Musical that opened in London in 1981
• Musical based on Eliot poems
• They dig jazz
• Broadway's second-longest-running show
• Boppers
• Broadway debut of '82
• Broadway show about felines
• Popular pets
• Margays, e.g.
• Mew-sical?
• Felix and Sylvester
• Mousers
• Tigers, e.g.
• Broadway smash whose poster image consisted of just two eyes
• Mouse catchers
• 1982 Best Musical Tony winner
• Some pets
• Eliot-inspired musical
• Musical with Mungojerrie and Jennyanydots
• Eliot-based musical
• 'Memory' musical
• Alley prowlers
• Siamese and Siberian
• 1983 Tony-winning musical
• 'Memories' show
• Scratching-post users
• Long-running musical
• Record holder before 'Phantom ...'
• Its longevity was topped by 'Phantom'
• Purrers
• Olivier Award winner of 1981
• *Jazz devotees
• Long-popular musical
• Jazz players, slangily
• Musical with Mungojerrie
• Broadway musical hit
• Lynxes, e.g.
• Long-running Broadway musical
• Musical that introduced "Memory"
• Furry companions
• Persians and Angoras
• Musical with Grizabella and Macavity
• Some Siamese
• A clowder of ____
• Maine Coon and Manx
• Sylvester, Garfield, et al.
• Gillespie and Parker, slangily
• *Jazz devotees, informally
• Noted Andrew Lloyd Webber musical
• Sylvester and Garfield
• Lions and tigers, not bears (oh my!)
• Musical set in a junkyard
• Andrew Lloyd Webber musical
• Show with Eliot-ness
• "Jellicle Choice" musical
• Jazz musicians
• Broadway stage hit
• Musical based on a T.S. Eliot book
• Manx and Angora
• Some strays
• Household members
• Main Coon and Abyssinian
• Rat hunters
• Trouble causers in "Lady and the Tramp"
• House pets
• Garfield and Heathcliff
• Jazzmen
• Cool characters
• Jazzy animals?
• Rum Tum Tugger's musical
• Lions and leopards
• Feline musical
• Common pets
• Some house pets
• Mouse chasers
• Russian blue, Havana brown, etc.
• Burmese and Himalayans
• 'Cool' guys
• Long-lived Winter Garden hit
• Furry Persians
• Many household pets
• Webber play
• Musical with Rum Tum Tugger
• Pets that meow
• Musical with meowing
• Jellicle Ball musical
• Garfield and Felix
• Urban howlers
• Long-running Broadway play
• Broadway hit
• Musical inspired by T.S. Eliot
• Musical with the song "Memory"
• Subjects of many viral online videos
• "Alf's" favorite snack food
• Broadway musical
• Pets in viral YouTube videos
• Reflective semiprecious stone
• Cougars, e.g.
• Tigers and lions
• Some household pets
• Musical animals
• It left Broadway on Sept. 10, 2000
• Some common pets
• Some pet hotel visitors
• They're good at landing on their feet
• Garfield and others
• Persian and Siamese
• The Cure "All ___ are Grey"
• 1981 Lloyd Webber musical
• Beboppers
• Brian Setzer "This ___ on a Hot Tin Roof"
• Feline mammals
• Stray ___
• Siamese, Persian etc
• Show around back street
• Musical - characters associated, primarily, with Eliot
• Musical jazz singing star initially held back
• Gutsy pets?
• Dancing acts known for graceful agility
• Musical for jazz enthusiasts?
• Musical (felines?)
• Pets - musical
• Animals to kill in the mountains?
• Show animals
• Musical from TS Eliot
• Old radio component, not quite the best
• See 1
• Domestic pets
• Carnivores - stage musical
• Their lives appear many times here in musical
• Show whose characters include Pouncival and Jellylorum
• "The Jellicle Ball" musical
• Musical featuring the Jellicle tribe
• Raining ___ and dogs
• Popular musical
• Universities now
• Small scratchers
• Lloyd Webber hit
• Bird watchers?
• Friskies fans
• Sylvester and others
• Many YouTube stars
• Self-grooming pets
• Show whose characters include Macavity, Mungojerrie and Mr. Mistoffelees
• Men in cabarets strip off
• Broadway debut of October 1982
• Purring pets
• Kittens
• "Phantom ..." broke its Broadway-run record
• Musical with Grizabella
• Some do laps
• Its run topped "A Chorus Line"
• Best Musical Tony winner after "Nine"
• Title pets in a Lilian Jackson Braun mystery series
• Lloyd Webber Broadway score
• Laser light chasers
• 2019 musical film with a substantial C.G.I. component
• New cast for a show
• Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, recently and controversially made into a film
• Pumas and panthers
• Adult kittens
• Webber musical based on Eliot poems
• Wild acts by domesticated felines
• Felines on Broadway
• 2019 movie featuring Jennifer Hudson as Grizabella
• Musical with the characters Skimbleshanks and Mr. Mistoffelees
• Users of scratching posts
• Indoor or outdoor pets
• Musical centered around the Jellicle Choice
• Leopards and lynxes
• Musical with "Memory"
• Famous show with new cast
• Musical with feline characters
• Musical with Rumpleteazer
• Notoriously finicky pets
• 2019 film with "digital fur technology"
• Musical featuring the Jellicle Ball
• Gutsy pets?
• 2019 box-office flop described by one critic as "Les Meowsérables"
• Cute house critters
• Divine animals in ancient Egypt
• Litter box visitors
• Pumas, e.g.
• Scratching post visitors
• Pets who may squeeze into shoeboxes
• Meowing pets
• Some furry pets
• Musical whose name is an anagram of the members of a musical
• Animals that kill in the mountains?
• Pets in a Lilian Jackson Braun mystery series
• "Old Possum's Book of Practical ___" (T. S. Eliot collection)
• Animals revered in ancient Egypt
• Some humane society rescues
• Revered animals in ancient Egypt
• Subjects of many viral videos
• Musical with Rum Tum Tugger and Mungojerrie
• Creatures mummified in ancient Egypt
• Khao Manees, tabbies, etc.
• Purr producers
• Pets that, according to a meme, can have a little salami as a treat
• Pets that use scratching posts
• Movie musical starring Judi Dench and Idris Elba
• Scratching post scratchers
• Lions and tigers, but not bears
• Sphynx and Siamese
• Ragamuffins and Pixie-bobs, for two
• Much-maligned 2019 movie about which one review said "It's 'Battlefield Earth' with whiskers"
• T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical ___"
• Pets with toe beans
• Wild acts by spiteful women
• Feline animals
• Animals with righting reflexes
• 2019 film that one reviewer called "purr-fectly dreadful"