### Clue: Passage from Amiss targeting a leading performer (4)
### Answer: STAR 
 ### Explanation: Definition: a leading performer
  **Hidden in**(passage from) amisS TARgeting.  I was wondering: is there a surplus "s" in Amiss?  The clue reads much better with Amis (Kingsley or Martin), writer compatible with the surface "passage from", and there are probably more than one "leading performer" in their novels.  The only Amiss of note that I could find was Dennis, English cricketer.