Possible Clues:

• Chicken and fish not properly cooked - put back in
• Author of 'Blithe Spirit'
• Retired medic consumes uncooked chicken
• Craven type whose encounter was brief?
• Chicken and fish having inside uncooked sent back
• Yellow room in a hospital is after a short bed
• Chicken causing a crowd disturbance
• Composer of 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen'
• Scaramouche's fellow protégé?
• Noel --, English actor, playwright, and composer