Possible Clues:

• Act of avoidance or escape
• The first person set free, having climbed fencing
• Equivocal answer
• Act of avoiding
• Political tactic
• Deceptive action, but backfiring before one working
• So naive, silly excuse you try to get away with
• Act of escaping by trickery or illegal means
• Fencing I preserve, climbing and working
• Debater's ploy