Possible Clues:

• What to do with a plan, say? The axe?
• Sounds as if the hen must do this to the egg or get the chop from it
• Make the peace - bury the . . . . . . .
• Deck opening on extremely elegant cutter
• Chat about the shimmering axe
• Sounds like the way to produce the chicken and give it the chop
• Get the chop from this and get the chicken this way, by the sound of it
• It's buried after rowing
• Opening effort lacks heart and gets the axe
• See 1