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Type of sauce produced by head, head of restaurant (5)

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I believe the answer is:

caper

'type of sauce' is the definition.

'by head head of restaurant' is the wordplay.
'by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'head' becomes 'cape' (I've seen this before).
'head of' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'restaurant' is 'r'.
'cape'+'r' is 'CAPER'.

'produced' is the link.

(Other definitions for caper that I've seen before include "Leap about" , "Something in the sauce" , "Escapade with an edible bud?" , "Frisk" , "Skip/dance about" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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