Possible Clues:

• Feline of South and Central America
• Cat from beginning to end cherished by old fool
• Old Scot, perhaps, giving home to old cat
• Wildcat strike ending great deal after company goes belly-up
• O, 'e gets to be such a clot to be so feline!
• Cousin of a leopard
• Officer in charge finds Eliot missing one wild cat
• Animal whose name comes from Nahuatl
• Sounds as if there's a lot of this fur at last
• New World cat