soft, stealthy steps

go / come

(idiomatic) go straight, quit a shady business, wash one's hands of some work or lifestyle which is less than respectable / (idiomatic, neologism) quit a business (regardless of its respectability)

area around a person's feet / footwear / suspension system of a car etc.

(taxonomy) a subspecies / variant

pawing at the ground (less common than the agaki reading) / a children's game played by hopping around on one foot

chalky

Ashgabat (the capital of Turkmenistan)

(medicine) athlete's foot

trot