Possible Clues:

• Suffer extreme hunger
• Averts disaster, only to die of hunger
• Withhold cheer from staff? About right
• Weaken via deprivation
• Suffer from extreme hunger
• Fast line of music? That's about right
• The last five creatures turn up - must be very hungry!
• Fast look at a figure entered
• Go too far with the fast
• Not get nearly enough, of course