Possible Clues:

• Food traditionally served in newspaper
• Fast food
• Chap finds his cooked meal may be a takeaway
• Chap finds his badly cooked meal - a takeaway?
• Popular British meal
• Worker in the Treasury, formerly, has joints of 1 across
• Fellow serving spinach dish for dinner maybe
• The Italians make them for the Irish with the sharks as well as those close to Nick's
• Fine spinach dish replaced traditional meal
• The Italians make them for the Irish with the sharks, as well as those close to Nick's