Being a girl, and small, gets delicacies (6)
I believe the answer is:
viands
'delicacies' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both things that one consumes for nourishment as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'being a girl and small' is the wordplay.
'being a girl' becomes 'vi' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'small' becomes 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size).
'vi'+'and'+'s'='VIANDS'
'gets' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for viands that I've seen before include "Provisions, victuals" , "Articles of food found under divans" , "Food items (archaic)" , "Supplies" .)