Possible Clues:

• Cager's credits
• Gives a hand to the silly one that sits here
• Gives help for a couple of seconds - first point
• Helps a fool go one way to Sweden
• Makes oneself useful
• Helps when a ship sits, listing
• Provides 13 across for guitar players, though no lead
• It's all to the good if the silly one is up the street
• Helps string-players after missing entry
• Gives a hand to be so silly before one sits all twisted