Possible Clues:

• Crop pattern that is puzzling, you might say
• Corn cob
• - maybe staple puzzle that absorbs one
• Grass feature of Hampton Court I cut
• Early American menu item
• Tall cereal plant bearing grain on large pods
• Corn-cob cereal
• Crop of the month, might one say?
• Growth one finds in labyrinth
• Oil producer, one unknown in West