Related Clues:

• A scarcity of thread
• A severe shortage of food
• A great shortage as of food
• Scarcity of thread
• Severe shortage of food
• Shortage, paucity
• Hundreds get ground, yet there's such a shortage here
• There's not enough there, of course, underground at last
• Not much food with just a hole in the ground at last
• It's splendid around the morning to have nothing, of course
• When there's nothing left, of course, for me 32 across
• In time of scarcity things begin to get expensive
• Shortage may lead to things starting to be expensive
• It's not enough to remove the top and expose the soil
• A short age of five hundred for this planet