| BOSONS | Small things working in head |
| EULER | Mathematician keeps things working smoothly, they say (5) |
| SYSTEM | Arrangement of things working together (6) |
| TRIALANDERROR | One way to get things working |
| OFFSWITCH | Cancelled change, it stops things working (3,6) |
| GUMSUP | Being self-satisfied stops things working |
| NIGHT | Time thing working (5) |
| BUGS | Software glitches ... and, in a broad sense, small things hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| STIRFRY | Mix small things and cook rapidly in pan |
| FOODCHAIN | Big things eating small things |
| SEEDSMAN | Dealer in small things is mad, sense abandoned (8) |
| ETUI | Small case for small things |
| ANTS | Small things in giant scenes |
| PUMPS | Blow up small things in a forecourt? (5) |
| ATOMS | First thirteen letters put with small, small things (5) |
| ONES | Small things in wallets |
| ARUNDHATIROY | Author of the novel "The God of Small Things", winner of the Booker Prize in 1997 |
| FROM | Proverb demonstrating that big things have to start from small things (6,4,4,6,6,4) |
| LITTLEACORNS | Proverb demonstrating that big things have to start from small things (6,4,4,6,6,4) |
| MIGHTY | Proverb demonstrating that big things have to start from small things (6,4,4,6,6,4) |
