Flaxen fibres gently touch hard walking surface (7)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

TOW (flaxen fibres), PAT (gently touch), H (hard). ‘Tow’ is sometimes used to describe very fair hair, as is ‘flaxen’. Debussy wrote a famous piano solo called La fille aux cheveux de lin which is usually translated as The Girl with the Flaxen Hair.