Possible Clues:

• The first person, say, to rent out a hole
• Sounds as if there's little of this little hole in the water
• Hole in shoe through which lace passes
• Little hole for little 16 down, by the sound of it
• Small hole through which lace passes
• Little thing peeping at you from a hole?
• Aglet's target
• We hear small island is a hole
• A small opening I reportedly must have allowed
• Small hole in a shoe