Possible Clues:

• As one goes back to leave one's pudding
• Lose your figure, though having nothing for pudding
• Starch used in puddings
• Behind sink there's old pudding
• Pole gone to get food of sorts
• Old World palm
• Dash of a Manx antelope
• Having run out of fuel, reverted to pudding
• Asian culinary thickener
• Give way - love a pudding!