Possible Clues:

• Bat defensively
• Use delaying tactics
• Pen gripping love novel to reveal nothing
• Cause obstruction and be evasive? Nothing original in that
• Be defensive in reactions to new allowances
• Try to hinder division in the countryside?
• Hedge surrounds united with hedge
• Doggedly obstruct rural division
• Duck recently born in box hedge
• Whatever you say, say nothing to single women in enclosure