| SONATINA | Little piece of boy, a girl (8) |
| PARTICLE | A little piece of some soft thing (8) |
| PRINCESS | She gives a blue-blooded boy a bit of a kiss (8) |
| ELECTRON | Adopt boy, a tiny little thing (8) |
| PERSONAL | For each boy a large kind of computer (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) |
| SPIKELET | Little piece of grass, possibly sleek tip |
| RONDINOS | Little pieces of iron dinosaur swallows (8) |
| AMORETTO | Chubby little boy, a tot unfortunately scoffing second helping? |
| OBSCURER | Less well-known old boy's a successful doctor (8) |
| PRETENCE | Show priests evenly breaking little pieces of bread |
| BOATRACE | Oxbridge competition upset old boy a bit |
| JILL | Historically, a generic name referring to a girl as opposed to "jack" for a boy; a female ferret; or, a series of pony books by Ruby Ferguson (4) |
| CLIP | From a box, getting a little piece of wire (4) |
| COX | From the Middle English for "boat boy", a short word for the skipper or helm of a lifeboat or racing shell; or, a cultivar of apple (3) |
| VICKI | She always gives a boy a bit of a kiss |
| SONIA | Her little boy's a bit of a liar, it seems! |
| HAMLET | Little piece of pork for Prince of Denmark? (6) |
| ISLET | Little piece of land has a tenant (5) |
| RUNT | A little piece of litter? |
