Possible Clues:

• Resort to desperate measures
• Vainly hope set of eggs and tarts was cooked
• Try something desperate as cat thrusts claw out
• Try anything, having cooked tarts after batch of eggs was cracked
• Make a desperate attempt to get chickens in basket?
• Hope against hope to try to grab drinking aids
• Show desperation when chickens are at the corn!
• Have little hope of putting the squeeze on some suckers?
• Young drinkers may seek desperate remedies