Possible Clues:

• One writes the words of songs
• Rice, perhaps, strictly cooked with time once taken for one
• Does something to the air working on the tracks
• Wordsmith
• Menu accepting yen and rupees with single starter of 'Chinese Rice for one'
• Hammerstein, possibly? It's Cyril for a change
• Lorenz Hart, e.g
• Writer of a song’s words
• Wrote The Fields of Athenry for station ahead of the rest
• Writer of words of song