Clerk’s content - after small slummy pad it will be digs for him (9)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

Clerk’s content – after small slummy pad it will be digs for him S (=small, in sizes) + HOVEL (=slummy pad, i.e. shabby accommodation) + <c> LER <k> (“content” means middle letters only are used); the “digs” of the definition refers not to accommodation, but to excavation!