Possible Clues:

• Mischievous child in blue found it was too small
• Suggesting not much on television, bad boy interrupts
• 'Heavens,' the rascal interposed. 'It's too small'
• Providing little coverage of novel agent's accepted
• Inadequate to see Philby infiltrating himself?
• Scanty (clothing)
• Agent holds Kipling's work to be slight
• Far from generous
• Espionage novel held to be short of substance
• To cream off pay with no answer is revealing