Saving time, cook pasta sauce with end of sausages and vegetable (9)
I believe the answer is:
asparagus
'vegetable' is the definition.
(asparagus is a kind of vegetable)
'saving time cook pasta sauce with end of sausages' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'sauce' could be 'ragu' (I've seen this before) and 'ragu' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for asparagus that I've seen before include "cat in dramatic situation" , "Plant whose young shoots are cooked as expensive vegeable" , "The Theatre Cat (T. S. Eliot); an edible plant" , "may be seen on an allotment" , "Spears or shoots" .)