Related Clues:

• Budding
• Dreamer
• Hanger-on
• Pretender
• Hopeful
• Ad head
• Aspirant, informally
• One who dreams of fame
• Aspirer
• Emulator
• Aspiring
• Starstruck sort, maybe
• Hopeful to catch, breaking fall
• Hopeful catch will break fall
• Being no crank, I need no one else to get me going