Usual charge covering male director (10)
I believe the answer is:
accustomed
'usual' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'covering male director' is the wordplay.
'covering' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'male' becomes 'tom' (tom can mean a male cat).
'director' becomes 'accused' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'tom' going into 'accused' is 'ACCUSTOMED'.
'charge' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may belong to another bit of the clue.
(Other definitions for accustomed that I've seen before include "familiar" , "Used to" , "usual" .)