Possible Clues:

• Successful person
• Troops drop GI, taking odds for leader
• Turns up, the man upstairs got to post good books by local person whose best in their field
• Leader to follow after start of polling
• Principal in group
• Big cheese Father with container served up
• Head honcho at a kennel?
• Big wheel
• Head honcho, or a hint to the starred answers
• The best setter