Possible Clues:

• Relating to theft
• Liable to pinch uncle’s oar somehow?
• Inclined to appropriate correction for a cruel son
• Light-fingered clue, arson suspected
• With sticky fingers, cleans our act up
• A close run, maybe, for kleptomaniac
• Criminal needs to arrange counsel, a barrister, ultimately
• Unusually clear intelligence concerning certain crimes
• Like other crimes, arson must be sorted out with clue
• Thievish