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Most significant time to receive care of cat (5,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

maine coon

'cat' is the definition.
(I know that Maine coon is a type of cat)

'most significant time to receive care of' is the wordplay.
'most significant' becomes 'main' (I've seen this in another clue).
'time' becomes 'eon' (eon is a kind of time).
'to receive' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'care of' becomes 'co' (c/o can mean 'care of' when addressing mail).
'eon' going around 'co' is 'ecoon'.
'main'+'ecoon'='MAINE COON'

(Other definitions for maine coon that I've seen before include "Unusually big cat" , "Very large breed of cat" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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