| DRAGEE | Cake decoration in the form of a tiny silver ball or bead; sugar-coated nut; chocolate drop with a candy shell; or, a medicated sweet (6) |
| PIN | A modiste, seamstress or tailor's tiny silver fastener for securing a toile or textile, be it chambray, cord, frilled or gored; or, a virtual tack to digitally hoard an interest adored on one's cyber |
| BOOBYTRAP | Practical joke in the form of a tiny bra? (5,4) |
| COMFIT | Sugar-coated nut (6) |
| GLOBULE | Drop or bead |
| POMPOM | Quick-firing anti-aircraft gun; decoration in the form of a ball (3-3) |
| STOCKINGS | Items hung on Christmas Eve traditionally filled with small gifts, nuts, chocolate coins and the item revealed in the solution to 145 Across (9) |
| JORDANALMONDS | Sugar-coated nuts (6,7) |
| PRALINE | Caramelised sugar-coated nuts (7) |
| ICE | Do cake decoration in kitchen quite regularly |
| ANGELIC | Very good cake decoration in short supply (7) |
| MINNOW | Tiny silvery fish |
| SMELT | Tiny ,silvery, bait fish |
| STRAND | A string of pearls or beads; poetic word for a shore; or, one of the two chains forming the double helix of DNA (6) |
| POME | From the Latin meaning "apple", a fruit such as the aforesaid or any one of its relatives including pear, quince and medlar; or, priest's handwarming silver ball of hot water (4) |
| SKERRY | Although a linguistic cousin of a tiny scrap or minute shard, it is a word for a frightening-sounding giant rock or rugged reef, sheared or chipped off from a mainland (6) |
| POMANDER | How to name-drop with a ball of scent (8) |
| NOUVEAU | Art ____ , a style of decoration in the 1890s marked by flowing lines and patterns of flowers (7) |
| ARTDECO | Style of design and interior decoration in the 1920s and 1930s in Europe and the US (3,4) |
| BADGE | An item studied or collected with medals, orders of merit, ribbons and other decorations in the branch of numismatics known as phaleristics (5) |
