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Awfully good dinner ... what ... what will the sticky bits left on the plates do? (2,4,3,5)

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I believe the answer is:

go down the drain

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'will the sticky bits left on the plates do?' is the definition.
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'awfully good dinner what' is the wordplay.
'awfully' indicates an anagram.
'good'+'dinner'+'what'='gooddinnerwhat'
'gooddinnerwhat' is an anagram of 'GO DOWN THE DRAIN'.

'what' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for go down the drain that I've seen before include "Run away" , "Sink into oblivion" , "be wholly unprofitable" , "be of no use?" , "as failures might?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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