| LUNETTES | From "little moons", word for small semicircular partial horseshoes originally, later arched windows or other crescent-shaped things (8) |
| LUNETTE | Literally meaning "little moon", a crescent-shaped architectural recess occupied by a painting, window or relief sculpture; or, an old word for a half horseshoe (7) |
| LUNET | Little moon |
| CONFETTI | From Italian for "bonbons", word for little sweets or exploding white-cloud-forming balls of plaster flung at carnivals originally, later for pieces of colourful fluttering paper thrown over brides/gr |
| CUBICLES | From "lie down", a word for little places such as bedchambers for recumbency originally, now for booths, carrels, changing rooms, workstations or other small partitioned-off areas (8) |
| PICCOLOS | From Italian for "little", a word for small flutes aka ottavinos; organ stops of similar tone; ponies, quarter bottles, snipes or splits of champagne; or, in Sweden, bellboys or bellhops (8) |
| BITS | From "mouthfuls", word for little morsels munched off; the champed mouthpieces of bridles; binary digits forming nibbles; or, crumbs, grains or other small fragments generally (4) |
| CALCULUS | Branch of mathematics which comes from the Latin word for small stone (8) |
| REGULUS | Brightest star of the constellation Leo, named from Latin word for little king (7) |
| LIL | Small word for small |
| CRUMBS | Word for small morsels of biscuit, cake, bread or other baked food, also used as a euphemism for "Christ" (6) |
| CAPSULES | Word for small containers, such as the seedboxes of poppies and violets; miniature gelatinous cases enclosing doses of medicine; or, caches, buried for future discovery (8) |
| SNIPS | Word for small nicks made with scissors; or, hand-shears for trimming sheets of tin or other metal (5) |
| GROWLERS | Word for small icebergs aka "bergy bits"; hansom cabs that rumbled on cobblestones; grumbling people; snarling dogs; Yorkshire pork pies; or, in the US, jugs or pitchers for beer (8) |
| STREAMS | Word for small rivulets of running water, thus for continuous flows of digital data, money, tears, traffic, verbal abuse or anything else (7) |
| SECS | Little word for little moments |
| CORONETS | Word for little crowns, garlands or wreaths, hence diadem-like encircling things, such as bejewelled or floral circlets, heraldic supports for crests or cuticular bands around hooves (8) |
| SNIPPETS | Word for little pieces of cloth cut or scissored off, thus for brief extracts, scraps or shreds of something, such as information, literature or news (8) |
| NIBBLES | Word for little bits, bites, chumbles or murine gnaws of small tasty savouries or salted snacks, say (7) |
| ISLES | Poetic word for small land masses in ocean (5) |
