Possible Clues:

• Kind of curry
• Often-plaid cloth
• Crazy artists demanding fiery dish
• Chennai, before 1996
• It's unreasonable for Irish race accompanying 23 down
• Crazy artists demanding curry
• Former name of Chennai, an Indian city on the Bay of Bengal
• Artist's after bananas for a curry dish
• Local bananas and grass found at the centre in old India
• Crazy artists making medium-hot curry