The term 'Like the Lilliputians' refers to the characters from the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. The Lilliputians were a race of tiny people who lived on the island of Lilliput. They were so SMALL that Gulliver, the protagonist of the novel, was able to tie them up with a single thread. The crossword solution for this term is SMALL, which accurately describes the size of the Lilliputians.