He inspired "Cats" (5)
I believe the answer is:
eliot
'he inspired cats' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
This is the entire clue.
(Other definitions for eliot that I've seen before include "Middlemarch author" , "British poet, d. 1965" , "T S . . . . . wrote ''The Waste Land''" , "Murder in the Cathedral author" , "The Waste Land author" .)