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Answer for the clue "Cockney’s custom? To an extent ", 5 letters:
a bit

Word definitions for a bit in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv : to a small degree; somewhat; "it's a bit warm"; "felt a little better"; "a trifle smaller" [syn: a little , a trifle ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. To a small extent; in a small amount; rather.

Usage examples of a bit.

He was a bit of a fop himself, but when his short Centauran-style chlamys parted, Hamid-Jones clearly saw the outline of a shoulder holster.

He informed the company, in a broad Yorkshire dialect, that he did a bit in furniture, and at first starting these brokers buzzed about him like flies, and pestered him.

The intermediate steps of Creation are a bit more complicated than that.

In fact, even Hamid-Jones could see that she had grown a bit tubbypigeon-breasted, a neutral observer might have said.

In actual fact, just a bit less than that to provide a small net motion toward Alpha Centauri and to satisfy the requirements of orbital mechanics as we worked them out.

I had to yet, wanted to enjoy them a bit, and it was easy, so easy, like this was just another excited homecoming.

Determined not to look as though I had anything to be ashamed of, I held my head a bit higher.

A question here, a bit of silence there, and he would have her spilling her guts.

His restraint was based on a bit of knowledge of which she was apparently unaware: that the two Peter androids would, after the manner of programmed machines, kill her instantly if they discovered she was the real Anita.