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Goes carefully with wild snakes (6)

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I believe the answer is:

sneaks

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'goes carefully' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with social activities as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'wild snakes' is the wordplay.
'wild' is an anagram indicator.
'snakes' anagrammed gives 'SNEAKS'.

'with' is the link.

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(Other definitions for sneaks that I've seen before include "Moves craftily" , "Informers" , "In school slang, tells tales" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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