Comedian and activist Conover (4)

I believe the answer is:

adam

(Other definitions for adam that I've seen before include "Biblical progenitor of human race" , "- - Bede, novel" , "Early man" , "Eves husband" , "who transformed Palladian architecture?" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal.

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