Possible Clues:

• Creative sort
• Person playing note on sitar, perhaps
• Stir tea, resolved to be entertainer
• Player cramming Mozart is terrible
• Performer tires at appearing in variety
• Pro performer
• 'The Entertainer' (with Archie Rice), initially based on a book by McCourt and Lawrence
• Performer's heart is tender and it shows
• Thespian, e.g.
• Person having brush with English entertainer?