Possible Clues:

• Stock's cousin
• Thus up, it goes down first, of course
• Liquid - course
• Trouble, informally, with "the"
• First, of course, so it doesn't get you down
• Mulligatawny or consommГ©
• Dinner's first course
• Pot up nose: true? False!
• *Salad partner
• Liquid nourishment