Historical clue formulations

• One dining on Friskies — 2026-08-31
• "Sleep is like a ___: It only comes to you if you ignore it": Gillian Flynn — 2026-07-08
• Garfield in the funny pages, e.g. — 2026-04-27
• "Human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a ___ does not": Ernest Hemingway — 2026-03-18
• Persian or Abyssinian — 2026-02-22
• One of three in the Horatio Henry Couldery painting "Curiosity" — 2026-01-31
• Hairball hacker — 2025-12-02
• Animal on a "Hang in there!" inspirational poster — 2025-08-06
• "You cannot look at a sleeping ___ and feel tense": Jane Pauley — 2025-08-01
• Hard animal to herd — 2025-07-24
• One pouncing at a laser pointer, perhaps — 2025-06-02
• Tabby — 2025-03-18
• Purring pet — 2025-02-11
• "All you need is love and a ___" (old saying) — 2024-12-30
• Garfield, for one — 2024-12-20
• Big name in construction equipment — 2024-03-08
• Edgar Allan Poe owned a black one, appropriately — 2023-11-22
• Pet that uses a litter box — 2023-05-08
• Dude in a jazz ensemble — 2023-04-27
• Furball, maybe — 2022-07-01
• Subject of many a funny TikTok — 2022-06-08
• Laser pointer chaser — 2022-01-16
• Only domestic species in the family Felidae — 2021-12-01
• Cool one — 2021-08-22
• Animal that, despite popular belief, is usually lactose intolerant — 2021-04-06
• "What greater gift than the love of a ___?": Charles Dickens — 2020-10-06
• Monopoly token elected by an internet vote — 2020-08-16
• Animal feared by an ailurophobe — 2020-08-02
• Attendee of the Jellicle Ball, on Broadway — 2020-06-14
• Siamese or Persian — 2020-05-05
• Tabby — 2020-02-24
• Object of veneration in ancient Egypt — 2020-02-21
• Cougar or cheetah — 2020-01-21
• "What greater gift than the love of a ___": Charles Dickens — 2019-11-03
• Pet said to have nine lives — 2019-10-14
• Pet asking for milk, purr-haps? — 2019-09-09
• Hipster — 2018-12-07
• Cool ___ — 2018-11-24
• Lion or tiger — 2018-08-26
• Felix or Fritz — 2018-08-08
• Sacred creature in ancient Egypt — 2018-05-09
• Purr-fect pet? — 2018-04-09
• Burmese or Persian — 2017-12-26
• "Cool" sort — 2017-11-26
• Monopoly token since 2013 — 2017-08-05
• Hipster — 2017-06-22
• "What greater gift than the love of a ___?": Dickens — 2016-11-10
• Cool ___ — 2016-10-29
• "Loco" sort — 2016-09-15
• Stealthy sort — 2016-07-08