Possible Clues:

• Monkey about during pantomime, missing beginning of song
• Barbary ape, e.g.
• Staff of authority almost catching water animal
• Asian monkey
• Monkey with a short or no tail
• Long-faced monkey
• Monkey with a long face
• Rhesus monkey, e.g
• Medium-sized Old World monkey
• Coat, it being shed by a pretty monkey