Related Clues:

• Perhaps remove the end - it's not important
• It's not essential so to cut the end off
• What the farmer's wife did to the mice is not important
• 'Dock this, perhaps, but that's not essential (6)'
• 'Dock, perhaps, but not an important one (6)'
• So to take off the end is unimportant
• Small, important part
• See 14
• Group of soldiers in particular
• Particular stump
• Item: 'Three volunteers - you, you and you!'
• Small part of military detachment
• Particular dock?
• Item: the devil's in it
• Point duty