Related Clues:

• Paw seen in hedge
• Be careful with pet dish out
• 'Though even the word Marsala will smack of preciosity/ Soon in the --------- West.' (D. H. Lawrence, Birds, Beasts and Flowers)
• Creep one of a pair booted on stage?
• Sort of willow — foundation for hedge
• One thing a falling cat lands on: hedge
• Tom perhaps with fine implement cut back hedge
• Move cautiously around the cat's paw!
• Act timidly as cat’s-paw
• Cat, very fine, climbing to sit on the fence
• Act overcautiously
• Go gingerly (around)
• Be non-committal in a catty sort of way?
• Act very cautiously
• Equivocate (informal)