Related Clues:

• Inclined to steal things with illuminated digits?
• Hovered around scrappy fight, bent on nobbling
• Liable to pinch, but not heavy-handed?
• Likely to steal thunder from heavy-handed pianist
• Likely to steal electrical device that had been touched
• Inclined to steal and evidently not heavy-handed?
• Dipper is so frightened to fly after lying oddly
• Like a pickpocket
• Prone to thieving, but not in a heavy-handed way
• Given to stealing
• Liable to steal
• Is likely to lift something that's not heavy to chop, freeing what's on top of deadwood
• Given to thieving
• Liable to steal clear and end grief, possibly
• Prone to plagiarism? Presumably, a journalist with a typewriter!