Related Clues:

• First letter of the Greek alphabet
• Burrowing rodent with cheek pouches
• Rodent with large cheek pouches
• Hal comes first with his Pa
• One might bet a follower of this first
• Pa, that's the first letter from Hal
• Go softly with her, being only a little beast
• Might the little beast go for one, by the sound of it?
• It's a little beastly so to go around her softly
• Bet a follower of this?
• Sounds as if one might attack that rodent across the Atlantic
• How Hal and his Pa might have a bet for the letters
• The first one to go with Romeo was not Juliet, by the sound of it
• Go for the sound of the rodent (6)
• One might go for the sound of this in America