Possible Clues:

• Centre point or core of a matter
• The point of giving up food
• The main thing is to get this back from the baker
• Gist (of a matter)
• Pencil, late in its life
• Tiny pencil
• Pencil that has seen better days
• Pencil at the end of its life
• Central point or gist
• Hairstyle swept up into small lump