Related Clues:

• Lump
• Pencil stump
• Opposite of edge
• Surroundings
• Proximity
• Central position
• Much-used pencil
• One-inch pencil, say
• Gist of the matter
• Central part
• Small protuberance
• Pencil remnant
• Center of a crowd
• Pencil end
• Short piece of a pencil