Possible Clues:

• Manager retains old craftsman
• Noisy pigeon set about quiet old Hollywood actor
• Barrel-maker in company work, retro, off and on
• Anderson of CNN
• CNN anchor Anderson
• Jilly __, author of the Rutshire Chronicles
• Mini maker, originally
• Craftsperson who makes wooden barrels
• One who always finds himself over a barrel?
• Yvette __, MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford