### Clue: Worker, perhaps, holding up excessively small footwear (6)
### Answer: BOOTEE 
 ### Explanation: Definition: small footwear
 BEE(a social insect, perhaps one from the worker caste) **containing**(holding) **reversal of**(up, in a down clue) TOO(excessively;more than required, adequate or proper, as in "you're too smug").
Footwear for little people: