Easily catching fellow on escape from the cops shifted blame (9)
I believe the answer is:
flammable
'easily catching fellow' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'on escape from the cops shifted blame' is the wordplay.
'on' means one lot of letters goes inside another (as in clothing 'on' a person).
'escape from the cops' becomes 'flam' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'shifted' indicates anagramming the letters.
'blame' with letters rearranged gives 'mable'.
'flam' inserted within 'mable' is 'FLAMMABLE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for flammable that I've seen is " Easily set on fire".)