Related Clues:

• Meagre in quantity (requiring 9 attention?)
• Paltry - with spots?
• Mean - trifling
• Mean — worthless
• Like a 3 percent tip
• It's contemptible to put me in with a clever one
• Slay me (anag)
• Barely worth bringing up
• Miserably paltry
• A crafty setter on top — but pretty feeble
• Poussins, say, given area — not where French like chicken feed
• Insulting Irish city, I therefore receive imprisonment
• Contemptible crony put to the test
• Mean attempt to hold up friend
• Spotted in bed, perhaps, quite inadequate