Minutiae
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

JOT
A slight but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic"

DOT
Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide

DAB
A light touch or stroke

BIT
Piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding; "the horse was not accustomed to a bit"

ACE
A serve that the receiver is unable to reach

4 letters

WHIT
A tiny or scarcely detectable amount

SPOT
An act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"

SNIP
The act of clipping or snipping

MOTE
(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

MITE
Any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods

ITEM
A whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection; "they reduced the price on many items"

IOTA
The 9th letter of the Greek alphabet

HAIR
A filamentous projection or process on an organism

GNAT
Any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies

FACT
An event known to have happened or something known to have existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell"

DROP
The act of dropping something; "they expected the drop would be successful"

DRAM
The basic unit of money in Armenia

DOLE
Money received from the state

CASE
A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the family brought suit against the landlord"

ATOM
(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

5 letters

THING
A separate and self-contained entity

SPECK
A very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky"

SCRAP
A small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used; "she jotted it on a scrap of paper"; "there was not a scrap left"

POINT
A contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs

PINCH
Irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear; "smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth"; "the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back"

OUNCE
A unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound

MINIM
A musical note having the time value of half a whole note

MIDGE
Minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water

GROAT
A former English silver coin worth four pennies

GRAIN
The smallest possible unit of anything; "there was a grain of truth in what he said"; "he does not have a grain of sense"

FACET
A distinct feature or element in a problem; "he studied every facet of the question"

FROTH
A mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid; "the beer had a thick head of foam"

FLECK
A small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red"

DWARF
A plant or animal that is atypically small

DATUM
An item of factual information derived from measurement or research

CRUMB
A very small quantity of something; "he gave only a crumb of information about his plans"; "there were few crumbs of comfort in the report"

COUNT
The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order; "the counting continued for several hours"

CHAFF
Foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure

6 letters

TITTLE
A tiny or scarcely detectable amount

SMITCH

REGARD
A long fixed look; "he fixed his paternal gaze on me"

PEBBLE
A small smooth rounded rock

MATTER
That which has mass and occupies space; "physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it"

LITTLE
(of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"

GOBBET
A lump or chunk of raw meat

FACTOR
Resolve into factors; "a quantum computer can factor the number 15"

DETAIL
An isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole; "several of the details are similar"; "a point of information"

ASPECT
The feelings expressed on a person's face; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face"

THRASH
A swimming kick used while treading water

TRIVIA
Something of small importance

TRIFLE
Something of small importance

7 letters

TINYBIT

SNIPPET
A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)

SMIDGEN
A tiny or scarcely detectable amount

RUBBISH
Nonsensical talk or writing

RESPECT
(usually preceded by `in') a detail or point; "it differs in that respect"

PINHEAD
The head of a pin

SCRUPLE
An ethical or moral principle that inhibits action

PEANUTS
An insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount; "her salary is peanuts compared to his"

MODICUM
A small or moderate or token amount; "England still expects a modicum of eccentricity in its artists"- Ian Jack

MINUTIA
A small or minor detail; "he had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code"

MINIMUM
The smallest possible quantity

MICROBE
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

HANDFUL
A small number or amount; "only a handful of responses were received"

GRANULE
A tiny grain

ELEMENT
An abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech"

DROPLET
A tiny drop

DRIBLET
A small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); "he had a drop too much to drink"; "a drop of each sample was analyzed"; "there is not a drop of pity in that man"; "years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet"--Kipling

DRIBBLE
The propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks

ARTICLE
One of a class of artifacts; "an article of clothing"

TRIFLES

DETAILS
True confidential information; "after the trial he gave us the real details"

8 letters

TRUMPERY
Ornamental objects of no great value

PITTANCE
An inadequate payment; "they work all day for a mere pittance"

SPOONFUL
As much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar"

PINPOINT
A very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky"

PARTICLE
A function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs

NUTSHELL
The shell around the kernel of a nut

MOLECULE
(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

MINUTIAE

FLYSPECK
A tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly

INSTANCE
An item of information that is typical of a class or group; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10"

FRAGMENT
A broken piece of a brittle artifact

FARTHING
A former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny

9 letters

BRICABRAC

SMALLBEER
Something of small importance

LITTLEBIT

10 letters

TRIVIALITY
Something of small importance

THIMBLEFUL
As much as a thimble will hold

PARTICULAR
(logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class

INSANDOUTS

INCIDENTAL
An item that is incidental

11 letters

SMALLCHANGE
A trifling sum of money

MINORDETAIL

GIMCRACKERY
Ornamental objects of no great value

CHICKENSHIT
A false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear

CHICKENFEED
A trifling sum of money

13 letters

MICROORGANISM
Any organism of microscopic size

SMALLPOTATOES

KNICKKNACKERY
Miscellaneous curios