| AMORINO | Italian word, from "little love", for a putto representing a cupid in art, often with a bow/arrow or even a dove (7) |
| PUTTI | Representation of a cherub or a cupid in Renaissance art (5) |
| AMORETTO | In painting, a small chubby naked boy representing a cupid (8) |
| TROMPELOEIL | Illusion in art, often falsely suggesting three dimensions |
| PUTTO | Cupid in art |
| CUPID | Boy with wings, bow, arrow |
| CHERUB | Winged child-angel known as an amoretto or a putto when represented in a work of art (6) |
| ATTRIBUTE | In art, a conventional symbol associated with a mythical figure or saint, such as the bow/arrows of Diana, the dove of Aphrodite, the lyre of Apollo or the peacock of Juno (9) |
| SOFFIONI | Italian word, from "blows, breaths, puffs", for volcanic fumaroles, aka steam holes; light and fluffy ricotta cupcake puffs; or, the "puffballs" of the plant recalled in 10 Across, upon which one blow |
| ELO | Band with the 1979 hit Shine a Little Love for short |
| PATS | A little love for the labradoodle |
| AMORINI | Cupids (in art) (It.) |
| AMORETTI | Cupids in art |
| AMORS | Winged cupids in art |
| SHAFT | An arrow or spear; a sunbeam, lightning bolt or other column of light; the rachis or rib of a feather; one of a pair of thills of a carriage or cart; or, a well-like passage into a mine (5) |
| BARB | A jag of an arrow or a fish-hook; a beard-like filament of a cyprinid; a harl or ramus of a feather's vane; or, a pointed or wounding remark (4) |
| FLIGHT | Word for a bird or plane's airborne journey; a soaring of swallows or other avians; the trajectory of an arrow or dart; a wandering of fancy or imagination; or, an act of fleeing (6) |
| ROWEL | Word, from "little wheel" and sharing said root with "roulette", for a spur's spiky cog-like revolving disc; or, a flat ring on a bridle's bit (5) |
| TIDDLER | Word, from small fry's nickname for a stickleback, for a minnow, munchkin, tadpole, tot or other miniature being or tiny sprat (7) |
| HUSK | Word, from "little house", for the dry case, pod or shell of a fruit or seed (4) |
