Related Clues:

• Through the one-time artiste
• Artiste
• Salesman turns up with past actor
• Some supper for meritorious singer, perhaps
• One putting on an act
• Part of trapper for mercurial actor
• A retired actor?
• Theatre company set up by one-time actor
• Some whimper for mercy seeing clown possibly
• Actor in theatre upsetting for this person -- little right
• Contortionist, e.g., and, read syllable by syllable, a hint to the starred answers
• Agent set up one-time entertainer
• One doing something right, type to be embraced by fellow
• Agent recalled earlier entertainer
• It's improper for merriment to grip actor