Related Clues:

• German player finally leading out youth section
• Bird, a sort of dipper, a ratcatcher
• A sequence of blows from him finished off the vermin
• Colourful musician who was attractive to a lot of children
• Black-and-white musician from Norway
• Leading folk figure
• In German legend he rid the town of Hamelin of rats
• Musician who had a large following
• Presumably he was spotted playing for children
• Novel by Nevil Shute
• Hero of a Robert Browning poem, based on an old German legend
• Fruit item, perhaps bit of orange, eaten by the German folk hero
• One encouraging followers of Democrat to tweet in support
• Leader (from Hamelin?) who entices people to follow him to their doom
• Rat ridder