| OPUSCULE | A diminutive of Latin for "work", used to describe a small or petty artistic, literary or musical work (8) |
| OPUS | Creative work, used to designate the order of a composer's works (4) |
| BANQUETTE | French word used to describe a small often upholstered backless bench; a footbridge; or, a raised step or path behind a rampart (9) |
| HOODLUM | Which word, probably a German derivative, emerged in San Francisco in the 1870s to describe a small-time gangster? (7) |
| ESPARTO | Seaport works used to make paper etc (7) |
| WORK | An artistic, literary or musical composition; or, in physics, a form of energy measured in joules (4) |
| INCROWD | What describes a small group of people considered particularly fashionable or popular? (2-5) |
| GROVE | What word describes a small group of trees? (5) |
| SIGMA | Preliminary section of a book listing the symbols to be used therein; Latin, a diminutive of 'signs' (5) |
| MORCEAU | French word for a bite, crumb or fragment, thus for a short literary or musical composition (7) |
| CUP | Whether on a sideboard or a saucer or containing an acorn, boiled egg, caramel, claret, copra, culinary ingredient, golf ball, tea or victor's champagne, it is a small or miniature mug- or "tub"-like |
| ZUCCHINI | This is the name of a plant that produces a dark green cylindrical fruit. It's a variety of summer squash in the gourd family-which is important, because this word in Italian is a diminutive of "gourd |
| PUNCTILIO | From the Latin for "point", a word for a fine or petty point of conduct, etiquette or procedure, about which one is particularly scrupulous (9) |
| FLEABITE | A minor nip or sting inflicted by a small leaping siphonapteran or "lop", thus a term for any trifling irritation or petty inconvenience (4-4) |
| UVULA | Flap-like extension of the soft palate whose name is a diminutive of the Latin for 'grape' (5) |
| LEXEME | In linguistics, a basic unit of meaning in a language/vocabulary in the form of a word or several wo |
| CHIPOLATA | From the Italian meaning "flavoured with onions", a small or thin type of sausage, served in a casserole or as a party nibble (9) |
| URSULA | Female given name, derived from a diminutive of the Latin word for bear (6) |
| MERLOT | Wine grape variety whose name is thought to be a diminutive of the French word for blackbird (6) |
| CABAL | A clique, as in artistic, literary, or theatrical circles. (5) |
