Possible Clues:

• Firecracker that doesn't fire
• Conclusions of board you dismissed as faulty
• Ineffectual thing/person
• Disappointing firecracker
• Just a palindromic flop
• One failing to work, explode
• Thing failing to work
• Not-so-functional firecracker
• It doesn't work, literally, listing predecessors of Eve
• Chocolate candy item, Milk ___