Possible Clues:

• What little creature pecked?
• Garden bird nibbled morsel
• Dainty milk supplier pens Italian book
• A little something singer got teeth into
• Scrap suit in the end, its pockets black?
• Juicy piece of news — time it proved effective
• Fool commonly eats guts of fat bird as delicacy
• Bird accepted bait (small piece of food)
• Tasty piece of nipple?
• It backfired on the British leaders and it is a piece of juicy gossip