Related Clues:

• Copied someone else
• Tried hard to be as good as someone
• Did an impression of primate for director
• Flattered most sincerely
• Took off commercial about keep-fit exercises
• Copied reasonably
• A page editor cut was imitative
• Did the same when the department head retired
• Rivalled
• Appeared fruitless, but one did the same
• Took off with no rise in airspeed
• Parodied at the zoo?
• Ridiculed, perhaps
• Made like an impressionist
• Mimicked primate by entrance to deanery