| SPRINKLING | Small or thinly distributed amount (10) |
| SETTLEMENT | A small or isolated community (10) |
| ASPARAGUS | Vegetable with spears or tips served in pasta primavera, risotto or quiches, or thinly sliced with a |
| DEALT | Distributed amount on time (5) |
| VELDT | Open, unforested, or thinly forested grassland in southern Africa (5) |
| SPARSE | Meager or thinly scattered (6) |
| RARE | Very thinly distributed |
| SPARSER | More thinly distributed (7) |
| SPARSEST | Most thinly distributed |
| TRADING | ____ post, a store established in a remote or thinly populated area (7) |
| MOPROBLEMS | Consequence of mo' money, per Biggie Smalls ... or what's afflicted the theme answers? |
| CUP | Whether on a sideboard or a saucer or containing an acorn, boiled egg, caramel, claret, copra, culinary ingredient, golf ball, tea or victor's champagne, it is a small or miniature mug- or "tub"-like |
| MODICUM | A small or moderate or token amount. (7) |
| FRACTION | Small or tiny part or amount (8) |
| NAGS | Related to "neigh", an informal or pejorative word for inferior, jaded, old, small or worn-out examples of the hinnying, nickering or whinnying beasts commonly called horses (4) |
| SLIP | A cutting, scion or shoot of a plant, thus a baby sole, child, chit, piglet, scrap of paper, young person or other small or immature thing (4) |
| MERE | Small or small lake |
| TRINKETS | Small or worthless ornaments or pieces of jewellery (8) |
| SPRATS | Small or inconsequential persons or things. (6) |
| TRINKET | Small or worthless ornament or piece of jewellery (7) |
