Possible Clues:

• Unjustifiably claimed an idiot's wrong — answers finally will get stuck in
• Reliable but losing heart — is worker, in terms of self-image?
• Distress is said not to be professed
• Self-styled saint is extremely odd, somehow
• Self-styled African dictator's worker, therefore comes to the fore
• Self-styled don is at assembly across island
• Self-styled
• Pretended much of territory's a long way off? That's not the end of it
• This is self-styled, and so it is not authentic