Possible Clues:

• Old hand is cut in pieces to make sliced delicacy
• Badly cut, it's poor kind of meat
• Ham actor, losing lead, is put off love
• It's manufactured with poor cuts? On the contrary
• Poor cut — it's possibly sometimes smoked
• Top court is roughly hung out to dry in Italy - that shouldn't be hard to swallow!
• Sliced meat -- expert cut it so specially
• Proust travels around Channel Islands on foot - briefly it's a cure for starters?
• Experts to include one into chopped ham
• Experts over piece of meat bringing in one to make ham