Possible Clues:

• Get stick after this decline of the motor
• Nosh for Bugs
• What's the incentive as roman-?-clef opens up with local nonsense?
• Pot pie vegetable
• Kind of cake that's positively motivating
• Snowman's nose, perhaps
• Enticement
• Appetizer tray tidbit
• 'A -- for the Donkey', a novel by Les Roberts
• Sweetener in cuppa, rejecting hospital tosh