Related Clues:

• Trees toss red leaves over shelters
• Seasoned advisers accompanying betters?
• Senior officials
• Grown-ups, to kids
• Rulers in a gerontocracy
• Van leaves lavenders in the woods
• Church officers and small trees
• Better and wiser people?
• Respected tribe members
• Makeup of many a tribal council
• Yet they may be quite young trees!
• Lay church officials, perhaps
• They deserve respect
• Ones born before you
• Village VIPs