Possible Clues:

• 1 across showed with his axe that he was no dove
• Cat and bird severed by a chopper
• Weapon taken from an aggressive man pursuing a cat
• Western weapon
• Battle-ax
• Cat takes a bird - its strike can be fatal
• You might get the chop from Thomas the Indian, who is no dove
• Amerindian hatchet
• War hatchet once wielded by native Americans
• Thomas goes flying in war in America