Possible Clues:

• I ate Tim! (anag.)
• Sincerely flatter?
• One couple takes it to reproduce
• Take off a couple without it
• I am after having it eaten, and you do likewise
• Parrot - I finish game without it
• Do Little?
• Mimic or follow as a model
• That's the thing I am, and eight more by the sound of it, but not originally
• Not what the Impressionists did, surely?