Possible Clues:

• Area across pond wasting energy so?
• Put a blooming can over it like this
• Put a can over it like this to make it spiky
• Perfect husband described in this way
• As a result of
• So tail of halibut meets tailless fish
• Errant husband's caught in this way
• So thought 'Ought to drop by, ourselves'
• Put a can over this like this and put it in the shrubbery
• A can in that sort of way can be so prickly