Possible Clues:

• Being a little bird in the making of 21 across
• Just being tiny, for the most part
• That's being like tiny ET
• Being ET, it gets tiny
• It exists as a seperate thing (6)
• Being tiny is only part of it
• Is the Tyne being twisted around it up there?
• You turn up about the tint that's being mixed
• Presence
• Ye, being back about the mixed tint