### Clue: Director in love, thanks to diatribe beforehand (9)
### Answer: TARANTINO 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Director
A charade of TA ('thanks to') plus RANT ('diatribe') plus 'in' plus O ('love'), with 'beforehand' indicating the order of the particles; for the film director Quentin Tarantino (*Pulp Fiction* etc.).