Possible Clues:

• Skilled joiner
• The Taoiseach was one such producer of The Chippendales
• Chippendale perhaps giving an embrace with kit off!
• Blair could be a skilled craftsman
• Woodworker's nice bat, could one say?
• He joins ministers before God
• PM perhaps initially edgy at brink came up with reshuffle
• The prime minister is one, a skilled craftsman
• Tons stopping rifle manufacturer turning out its third craftsman
• Taoiseach perhaps is responsible for 4 across