Related Clues:

• Maintenance of good image by old expert
• Favouring the expert
• Something to smoke
• Something smoked
• Person, oddly enough, who gets paid to play?
• In Favour
• Golfer improvising somewhat
• Type of athlete
• Top player shows some improvement
• Smoke one's beginning to get between wheels
• In favour of curtailing concert
• In favour of; advantage
• Eg, a cheroot
• Smoke discovered by one beginning to get in vehicle
• Havana, for example