Possible Clues:

• Avoiding food
• Here's fine wine — no good abstaining!
• Eating nothing, following a painful little wound
• Refusing to eat following an insect bite
• Going without a bite after onset of fever
• Make it a quick gin when there's no more of this at 24 across
• Taking nothing in, beginning to feel a pain
• Having no food, isn�t worried. Takes cigarette out
• Note sharp pain when not eating
• Quick with the gin if there's little to eat