| Clue | Length | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| Can elks get loose? | 7 letters | slacken |
| ||
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- Let up
- Abate
- Slow down
- Become less tense
- ...... ease
- Make looser
- Loosen
- lose tautness
- Relax
- Can elks get loose?
- Release tension
- Loosen (a rope)
- Ease off
- Elks can somehow become loose
- Remit
- Mitigate
- Release
- Unbend
- Relent
- Divert
- Recreate
- Rest
- Enervate
- Unstring
- Worsen
- Weaken
- Become looser
- Allay
- Alleviate
- Anesthetize
- Appease
- Arrest
- Assuage
- attemper
- Attenuate
- backpedal
- Backwater
- bank-the-fire
- bate
- Benumb
- Block
- Blunt
- Bog down
- Bottle up
- Brake
- Chasten
- Check
- clip the wings
- Come apart
- Confine
- Constrain
- Control
- countercheck
- Curb
- Cushion
- Dam up
- Damp
- Dampen
- De-emphasize
- Deaden
- deaden the pain
- Decelerate
- Degenerate
- Delay
- Detain
- Deteriorate
- Die down
- Diffuse
- Dilute
- Diminish
- disimprove
- Disintegrate
- Disjoin
- Disperse
- dissolve into chaos
- downplay
- Drag
- draw rein
- Dull
- ease matters
- Ease up
- Ebb
- extenuate
- Fall
- Fall back
- Foment
- Free
- Get worse
- Give relief
- Grow worse
- Hang-up
- Hinder
- Hold back
- Hold in check
- Hold up
- Impede
- Inhibit
- Intercept
- Interfere
- Intermeddle
- Interrupt
- Intervene
- Keep back
- Keep in check
- Keep within bounds
- Lag
- Lax
- Lay
- lenify
- Lessen
- Let down
- Let go
- Let up on
- Lighten
- Loose
- Lose ground?
- Lose momentum
- Lose speed
- Lull
- make late
- Meddle
- Mire
- Moderate
- Modulate
- Mollify
- Numb
- Obstruct
- Obtund
- Oppose
- Pad
- Palliate
- Play down
- Poultice
- pour balm into
- pour oil on
- Reduce
- reduce-the-temperature
- Reef
- regress
- Rein in
- Relapse
- Relieve
- Repress
- Resist
- Restrain
- Retard
- retrograde
- Retrogress
- Salve
- Scatter
- Scotch ......
- Set back?
- Sicken
- Slack
- slack off
- slack up
- Slackening
- Slake
- Slip back
- Slow
- Slow up
- Smother
- Snub
- Sober
- sober-down
- Soften
- Soothe
- Stay
- "Stifle!"
- Stop
- Stupe
- Subdue
- Subside
- Suppress
- take in sail
- Tame
- Temper
- throttle down
- Tone down
- tune-down
- unbrace
- underplay
- unglue
- unlax
- Unleash
- unstick
- unstrain
- Untighten
- untune
- Unwind
- Wane
- Water (down)
- To loosen, relax
- slow down for release
- Have more play