| SHORTANDSWEET | A pithy 'A little honey' (5,3,5) |
| SHANGRILA | A Hilton invention is dropping a little honey, then a little lime, into wine punch |
| ROSEHIP | Fruit's ripe - so mix it with a little honey (7) |
| THELINE | To be clear, you need to mix a little honey in (3,2,2,3,4) |
| RAG | A farthing; a herd of colts; a pithy part of an orange or lemon; a prank; a scrap of cloth one figuratively loses when blowing one's top; or, something contemptuously compared to such a tatter, such a |
| MIMI | "Sunny little honey" in a Maurice Chevalier song |
| SWEETEN | Submachine-gun loaded by little honey |
| BABY | It means little, honey (4) |
| APHORISM | A metaphor is meant to contain a pithy observation (8) |
| PHRASE | Use a pithy expression, in a manner of speaking (6) |
| GNOME | A pithy saying about a banker in Zurich (5) |
| EPIGRAM | A witticism; or, a pithy poem (7) |
| HOLDON | Worn-out small honey bears stop! |
| GNOMIC | Coming (anag) - like a pithy saying (6) |
| SAW | Made an observation, a pithy one (3) |
| TERSELY | Restyle novel in a pithy way |
| HYMN | Godly song taken from a pithy mnemonic |
| MOT | Many older troopers start such a pithy remark |
| LIMERICK | A pithy humorous poem of five lines (8) |
| ONELINE | Length of a pithy joke |
