Possible Clues:

• ___ palm (plant that produces a powdery starch)
• Maybe start race, we hear, to provide pudding ingredient
• Palm starch used for puddings, etc
• Cereal-producing palm, small in the past
• Decline old pudding
• Drop round for some food
• Kind of tropical palm
• Starchy grain used in desserts
• Turn up gas ring for pudding
• Wise person cut down, wanting zero pudding?