### Clue: Delicate and beautiful containing good colour – like a tea leaf? (5-8)
### Answer: LIGHT-FINGERED 
 ### Explanation: Definition: like a tea leaf
 LIGHT(delicate;gentle, as in "a light touch") + FINE(beautiful;excellent, as in "a fine figure") **containing**(containing) G(abbrev. for "good") + RED(a colour).
Defn: …, a thief in rhyming slang.