Possible Clues:

• Iron rod with flattened end used as lever
• Opener caught - hubbub at the Tavern?
• Burglar's tool, perhaps, American people don't allow
• Bird put some chocolate on the lever
• Lever caught with things in line by counter
• How one might force entry and brag to the lawyers
• In America, one prizes Indian watering-hole
• Show off over counter, as one able to afford purchase
• Where the birds may drink so as to get the prize
• Leave her with this, by the sound of it, where the birds have a drink, perhaps (7)