Possible Clues:

• Con quests?
• Sees about the headgear that gets away
• Slips of the pen?
• Does a runner see pace's changed when losing energy?
• Ducks in rising south-eastern headlands
• Avoids predicament, heading away when rounding headland
• Frees oneself from bounds of enormous cloaks
• Gets out
• Makes a getaway
• Takes off edges of enormous cloaks