| MOONLET | Any one of the small natural satellites, minor orbiters, ring shepherds or diminutive Saturnian wanderers playing a role in ring dynamics (7) |
| CARME | Small natural satellite of the planet Jupiter (5) |
| ASTEROID | Minor orbiter |
| MANIKIN | A person or object that is delicate, dainty, or diminutive. (7) |
| LING | Marine fish or diminutive suffix? |
| EIGG | One of the Small Isles in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, to the south of the Isle of Skye |
| DRUPELET | One of the words for each one of the small fruits forming a bramble, raspberry or other syncarp (8) |
| RHEA | A nandoo; the plant rami/ramie or China grass; a Saturnian moon; or, the Greek counterpart of Ops (4) |
| MAUD | Traditional grey plaid of a Scottish shepherd; or, the title poem of a collection by Alfred Tennyson that also includes The Charge of the Light Brigade (4) |
| ANDORRA | Non-EU principality in the high mountains of the Pyrenees between France and Spain; one of the small |
| DRUPEL | Any one of the small fleshy subdivisions of a blackberry, raspberry or other aggregate fruit (6) |
| PHOBOS | Named after the Greek god personifying fear, the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites |
| STREAM | A beck, brook, burn, rivulet or other small natural body of running water; or, a flow of anything, such as gas, internet data, meteors, money into a business, people or words (6) |
| MANGANESE | Any one of the small, brilliantly coloured illustrations illuminated in gold or silver in a manuscript such as the Limbourg brothers' Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (9) |
| DEIMOS | One of the two natural satellites of Mars |
| ACINUS | Any one of the small drupes forming an aggregate fruit such as a blackberry or raspberry (6) |
| BORROWER | Any one of the small people in a series of books by Mary Norton (8) |
| MOONS | Natural satellites such as Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, Io or the one orbiting Earth studied in selenology (5) |
| VERTEBRA | One of the small bones of the backbone (8) |
| TESSERA | One of the small pieces of which a mosaic is made |
