Eats crow and louse, heartless café's condemned (5,4)

I believe the answer is:

loses face

'eats crow' is the definition.

'louse heartless cafe's condemned' is the wordplay.
'heartless' means to remove the middle letters.
'condemned' indicates anagramming the letters.
'louse' with its centre taken out is 'lose'.
'cafes' anagrammed gives 'sface'.
'lose'+'sface'='LOSES FACE'

'and' acts as a link.

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

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