Possible Clues:

• Girl set out with van, one that's utterly empty
• ...tailor Ravel composition to be covered by front-man for 22
• A player in a play, Heather supports diet
• Skinny specimen of bird seizing victory
• Athens tailor (AMND)
• Lean, hungry or weak person or animal
• Bird carrying piece of veal to famished child
• Ill-fed man's sharp pain, eating cooked laver
• Literary tailor's haphazard travels in Gloucester, initially
• Underprivileged person's goggle-eyed, gathering currency up