Possible Clues:

• Cut the grass, protecting tops of daisies under cover
• Cut down
• On sale
• When it's chewed up in a rush it's smaller
• Cut grass going over short pipe
• In the German retreat, Mussolini needed to be cut down
• Cut the snooker ball, having miscued
• Opposite of enlarged
• Made less in size etc
• Mussolini owing money looked smaller