Possible Clues:

• Sauce from naughty poets
• Word from the Italian for 'crush'
• Garlicky pasta sauce
• Political commentator's endless sauce
• Soaked up by escalope, stonking sauce
• Garlicky green sauce
• Something Italian chefs make in annoyance, adding nothing
• It's stuffed into grapes? Tomato sauce!
• Instruction to reader to preserve drained excess sauce
• Sauce pots Epicurean's holding up