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Harebrained feline put in a pen (6)

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I believe the answer is:

scatty

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'harebrained' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'feline put in a pen' is the wordplay.
'feline' becomes 'cat' (cat is a kind of feline).
'put in' indicates putting letters inside.
'a pen' becomes 'sty' (both can mean an animal enclosure).
'cat' going within 'sty' is 'SCATTY'.

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(Other definitions for scatty that I've seen before include "Slangily crazy or scatterbrained" , "Crazy - in jazzy way?" , "Slightly unpredictable" , "Mentally disorganised and absent-minded" , "dizzy" .)

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