Possible Clues:

• Hired help
• Domestic employee
• It's not the boss that tans the Rev.
• Butler or valet
• Menial type prepared to go round rear of inferior vehicle
• Member of house staff gives alert — the old boy has passed away
• It's not the boss that tans up about the muddled Rev.
• Taverns (anag)
• Lurch, to the Addams family
• Man crawling taverns