Possible Clues:

• Stereotypical inducement
• Stick alternative
• Stick's partner, in an idiom
• That's the root of the trouble with the motor
• 1dn vegetable
• 200 mg, say, of vegetable
• Bit of food a bishop gets in bed
• The vegetable for persuasion
• Treat for Bugs
• That's the ruddy weight of the start of 12 across, by the sound of it