Clues for the word "LITTLE"
We've had 124 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 222 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 19, 2026.
Definition of little
- a. - Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill; a little distance; a little child.
- a. - Short in duration; brief; as, a little sleep.
- a. - Small in quantity or amount; not much; as, a little food; a little air or water.
- a. - Small in dignity, power, or importance; not great; insignificant; contemptible.
- a. - Small in force or efficiency; not strong; weak; slight; inconsiderable; as, little attention or exertion;little effort; little care or diligence.
- a. - Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
- n. - That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like.
- n. - A small degree or scale; miniature.
- adv. - In a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat; -- often with a preceding it.
Referring Clues
- Like rock 'n' roll's Richard
- Teensy
- "The ___ Mermaid"
- Chicken ___
- Rich with humor
- Hardly anything
- Small
- With 39-Across, a book by 42-Across (and the key to this puzzle's theme)
- With 5- and 21-Across, 2006 Best Picture nominee
- With 9-Down, toddlers
- With 9-Down, shavers
- Tiny
- Wee
- Pint-sized
- Like Red Riding Hood
- Picayune
- Like three famous pigs
- Slightly
- Chicken ___
- Part 5 of today's quote
- Part 2 of today's quote
- Small-scale
- Seldom
- Comedian Richard Carruthers ______
- Younger, as a sister
- Petite
- Miniature
- Insignificant
- With 116-Down, she sang 'The Loco-Motion'
- Kiddie size
- Peewee
- Petty
- Stuart____, 1999 Fox movie
- ______ York, Prince Edward Island
- Pint-size
- "Stuart ___"
- Miss Muffet's size
- Unimportant
- Minute
- Lead-in to Bighorn or Big Man
- Lilliputian
- Thrashers draftee Bryan
- "diminutive"
- Compact
- Hardly any
- Diminutive
- Not yet grown?
- Dwarfish
- Not big
- ___ Red Ridinghood
- League for youngsters
- There's not much for John in Sherwood
- Small (6)
- Queens of the Stone Age "___ Sister"
- Jobsworth?
- Tesla "___ Suzi"
- "The River" outtake "___ White Lies"
- Self-important authoritarian
- Piddling
- '80s double act taken to extremes? (6 and 5)
- Bear after it sees stars
- Trivial £1 book writer dismissed
- Pinkie
- See 1
- Not much like Nell?
- There's not much left but to change the title
- Tricky small title?
- Book by Dickens
- "Not Much Left." Strange title
- Novel by Dickens
- "Not Much Left": a strange title
- This by itself is only a gradual process
- Not much left but to change the title
- Very much the opposite
- Short or long title, initially reversed
- (Heroine of) Dickens novel
- Novel heroine born in the Marshalsea (6, 6)
- Short story about dry lake
- Small library opens with new title
- Fairies and leprechauns?
- See special instructions
- Letters were guide to gold - go slow!
- Dickensian letters induced alternative go-slow
- Set fire (a short story) to flag and call sailors with glossy fruit eaten by Queens' fellow having Christmas dinner?
- See 1 down
- See 2
- Minor left among offspring, having bottom wiped
- Left to let it out for a modest amount
- Small quantity
- About 50 piglets, endlessly reduced
- Paradoxical beings from the big red planet?
- Cat bit small bloke Ñ incorrect version of incorrect story?
- Short sentence from which 2 is extracted___
- Small, most of brood left within
- A merry 12, to tell it as it isn't
- See 8
- Braveheart still 8's epic, hence "not in front of the children"
- Grade sign after letters as book of 25 4 across
- Shepherdess getting letters to be involved with Pole - and letter
- Letters go to the French and bingo!
- Bony cod's head eaten by prole wandering in coastland
- See 3
- Cub stars?
- Peanuts stand stars
- Small amount
- Not large
- Small library's first new title
- Like the three pigs of fable
- Trivial
- Short novel ending with a new title
- Not much of a title, maybe, for the letter heading
- Richard or Eva descriptor
- Tell it differently, just a bit
- Wee bit
- Sterling title, maybe, but it doesn't mean much
- Caesar's pizza
- Pretty ___ Liars
- Not much like Nell?
- Itsy-bitsy
- In "title," amended the L, making it small
- Not much like Bo-Peep?
- Came down to half a bottle, which isn't much
- Itty-bitty
- Younger, as a sibling
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 19, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 13, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 07, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 01, 2026
- Daily Quick - December 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 11, 2025
- LA Times - November 20, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 26, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 04, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 24, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 21, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 25, 2025
- Mirror Mini - December 31, 2024
- LA Times - December 25, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 05, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 14, 2024
- Daily American - September 06, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 05, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 05, 2024
- USA Today - June 27, 2024
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