Possible Clues:

• With 4-Down, someone who might repossess your car when you go bankrupt?
• Gender-neutral name
• Encouraging gesture
• "___ the Bunny" (touch-and-feel book)
• Small butter square
• Some butter from shop attendant
• Unconvincingly tidy, as a novel's ending
• Serving of butter, as might go on top of several answers in this puzzle
• Down ___ (memorized)
• Soft touch on the head