Possible Clues:

• Name better left unsaid, or a description of the answers to the starred clues
• I can't remember who wants standing orders
• Despicable person
• Young man receiving a medal is an unpopular person
• Awkward character who's apparently mediocre?
• Despicable individual as well in mediocre setting
• Person unknown or disapproved of
• Strange perch of Mortimer character
• Forgotten his name, but thus he is doubly unpleasant (2-3-2)
• Desert covering old, old, forgotten person