Possible Clues:

• Just mischievous? Myself, I never accept that
• Like Keebler's Ernie
• Small with a delicate frame
• Like little folk initially embraced by a German
• Impish female trapped by rising river
• Sprightly fishy at finish
• Like Keebler magic
• Sprightly in the end
• Describing Santa's helpers
• The Parisian holding up fishy part that's mischievous