One pouncing at a laser pointer, perhaps Crossword Clue

• One dining on Friskies

  New York Times · Monday, August 31, 2026 · 3 letters

• "Sleep is like a ___: It only comes to you if you ignore it": Gillian Flynn

  New York Times · Wednesday, July 8, 2026 · 3 letters

• Garfield in the funny pages, e.g.

  New York Times · Monday, April 27, 2026 · 3 letters

• "Human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a ___ does not": Ernest Hemingway

  New York Times · Wednesday, March 18, 2026 · 3 letters

• Persian or Abyssinian

  New York Times · Sunday, February 22, 2026 · 3 letters

• One of three in the Horatio Henry Couldery painting "Curiosity"

  New York Times · Saturday, January 31, 2026 · 3 letters

• Hairball hacker

  New York Times · Tuesday, December 2, 2025 · 3 letters

• Animal on a "Hang in there!" inspirational poster

  New York Times · Wednesday, August 6, 2025 · 3 letters

• "You cannot look at a sleeping ___ and feel tense": Jane Pauley

  New York Times · Friday, August 1, 2025 · 3 letters

• Hard animal to herd

  New York Times · Thursday, July 24, 2025 · 3 letters

More clues from this crossword

• 17-Across Grab a chair
• 18-Across "Go fly a kite!"
• 19-Down Superfan, in slang
• 20-Across Skewered meat dish
• 21-Down Accessibility law inits.
• 22-Across "Nature of a ___" (1991 Queen Latifah album)
• 24-Across Thick noodle in Japanese soups
• 25-Down "Negatory"
• 26-Across Grandma, in Guatemala
• 27-Down Only U.S. state whose capital has a three-word name
• 28-Across "Pipe down!"
• 28-Down Bear with a hard bed and hot porridge