Possible Clues:

• Craven writer and composer
• Timid fellow taking care of a minor
• That's a firm, not a bold way to draw up
• Faint-hearted person has care of district
• What is so fishy, and craven, about hostilities
• Yellow type
• Not so bold as to get fighting in a fish
• He's afraid there's someone sharing the tutelage
• A craven person
• Too timid as a fellow-guardian, it seems