| Make less tight |
New York Times |
15 Sep 2025 |
| Untie |
The Telegraph Quick |
31 Aug 2025 |
| Make easier to open, perhaps |
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| Unlace, say |
LA Times Daily |
12 May 2025 |
| Free toilets, with directions! (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
20 Apr 2025 |
| Untie, perhaps |
Thomas Joseph |
31 Mar 2025 |
| Turn a screw to the left |
USA Today |
28 Mar 2025 |
| Deliver places to go - went without wings (6) |
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| Free sole? No - cooked! (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
21 Feb 2025 |
| Undo, the knot |
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| No sole reformer to relax (6) |
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| Ease (6) |
The Guardian Quick |
10 Dec 2024 |
| Untie |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Nov 2024 |
| Relax when Leo's on bender (6) |
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| Slacken (6) |
Puzzler |
23 Oct 2024 |
| Relax; no sole (anag.) |
The Telegraph Quick |
05 Sep 2024 |
| Untie, perhaps |
Thomas Joseph |
21 Aug 2024 |
| Free toilets, with directions! (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
04 Jul 2024 |
| Make less tight |
Commuter |
01 Jul 2024 |
| Untie, undo (6) |
Puzzler |
29 Jun 2024 |
| Set free of restraints |
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| Relax on sole recreation (6) |
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| Undo a bit, as a tie |
LA Times Daily |
25 Mar 2024 |
| Lose no orders and relax (6) |
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| *(3/6) "Start with some warm-up exercises like light stretches to ___ up (ease up) the muscles!" |
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| There's no sole way to relax (6) |
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| It has no sole so you can slacken it easily (6) |
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| Ease up on sole revolutionary (6) |
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| Relax in Lucerne, they say (6) |
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| Let out a bit |
LA Times Daily |
17 Nov 2023 |
| Give some slack |
Universal |
14 Nov 2023 |
| Make less tight |
Universal |
28 Sep 2023 |
| Untie |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 Jul 2023 |
| Unlace, e.g |
Premier Sunday |
09 Jul 2023 |
| Slack off |
Newsday |
01 Jul 2023 |
| Relax, as a grip |
Universal |
09 May 2023 |
| Give some slack |
LA Times Daily |
08 May 2023 |
| Untie, perhaps |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Apr 2023 |
| Turn away from righty-tighty |
USA Today |
05 Apr 2023 |
| Make slacker |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Jul 2022 |
| Make less tight |
The Times Concise |
24 Mar 2022 |
| Turn left, as a screw |
Universal |
14 Jan 2022 |
| Relax the regulations for free association at the foundation |
Irish Times Crosaire |
28 Oct 2021 |
| Let out a notch, perhaps |
New York Times |
20 Oct 2021 |
| Work free; undo |
The Guardian Speedy |
04 Jul 2021 |
| Relax, having free gin at the end |
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| Untie |
Eugene Sheffer |
07 May 2021 |
| Ease up on salad on sole |
Irish Times Crosaire |
15 Apr 2021 |
| Broken lens, frames: glasses for free |
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| Relax |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Dec 2020 |
| Make less strict |
The Times Concise |
11 Nov 2020 |
| Slacken |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Oct 2020 |
| Slack off |
Newsday |
09 Jul 2020 |
| Relax in rest room, soon to be empty but will be occupied by Engineer |
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| Discarding diamonds upset one so old -- 27! |
The Telegraph Toughie |
05 Nov 2019 |
| Make less tight |
Newsday |
01 Oct 2019 |
| Ease |
LA Times Daily |
23 Aug 2019 |
| Ease |
The Washington Post |
23 Aug 2019 |
| Relax |
Thomas Joseph |
30 Jul 2019 |
| Make less tight |
Universal |
25 Mar 2019 |
| Free toilets just north of East Newton |
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| Make less tight |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Mar 2019 |
| Twist counterclockwise, as a nut |
The Washington Post |
13 Jan 2019 |
| Twist counterclockwise, as a nut |
LA Times Daily |
13 Jan 2019 |
| Twist counterclockwise, as a nut |
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| Make less tight |
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| Make less tight |
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| Ease |
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| Give slack to |
Premier Sunday |
25 Nov 2018 |
| Ease up on |
Newsday |
03 Oct 2018 |
| Can former nurse let go? |
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| Untie |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Jul 2018 |
| Relax, as restrictions |
Wall Street Journal |
14 May 2018 |
| Make less tight |
The Washington Post Sunday |
01 Apr 2018 |
| Relax |
Newsday |
23 Mar 2018 |
| Relax |
Premier Sunday |
04 Mar 2018 |
| Untie, perhaps |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Feb 2018 |
| Relax, as restrictions |
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| Ease up on |
New York Times |
25 Dec 2017 |
| Relax (with "up") |
Universal |
29 Jul 2017 |
| Release name behind general interpretation for instance |
Irish Times Crosaire |
11 May 2017 |
| Make less tight |
The Times Concise |
04 May 2017 |
| Unbuckle |
Newsday |
28 Apr 2017 |
| Relax, as a restriction |
Universal |
25 Apr 2017 |
| Unknot or unbuckle |
USA Today |
19 Mar 2017 |
| Ease up on |
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| Relax, as a restriction |
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| Relax (with "up") |
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| See one's pants go slack |
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| Give some slack to |
USA Today |
11 Jul 2016 |
| Undo, in a way |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Mar 2016 |
| Relax, as regulations |
USA Today |
19 Feb 2016 |
| Undo, as laces |
USA Today |
05 Feb 2016 |
| Undo, as laces |
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| Give some slack to |
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| Make slack |
The Sun Two Speed |
14 Nov 2015 |
| Free sole? No – cooked! |
The Sun Two Speed |
14 Nov 2015 |
| Give some slack |
LA Times Daily |
19 Jul 2015 |
| Make a belt or collar more comfortable |
USA Today |
02 Jul 2015 |
| Release name behind general interpretation perhaps |
Irish Times Crosaire |
01 Jun 2015 |
| Relax having free gin at the end |
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| Relax having free gin at the end |
|
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| Make a belt or collar more comfortable |
|
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| Give some slack |
|
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| Ease up |
|
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| Render removable, perhaps |
|
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| Ease |
|
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| Relax |
|
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| Untie |
|
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| Convenience of having guard partially relax |
|
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| Relax, as rules |
|
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| Untie |
|
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| Unknot |
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| Ease up |
|
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| Let out a few notches in |
|
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| Let out a bit, as a belt |
|
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| Let out a few notches in |
|
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| Untie or bend |
|
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| Undo, as laces |
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| Relax, as regulations |
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| Untie, as shoelaces |
|
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| Relax |
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| Undo, as laces |
|
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| Relax, as rules |
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| Free |
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| Relax |
|
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| Turn counterclockwise, maybe |
|
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| Aerate, as soil |
|
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| Relax |
|
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| Make less tight |
|
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| Unlace, perhaps |
|
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| Undo |
|
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| Let out a bit |
|
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| Make less tight |
|
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| Give some slack |
|
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| Untie |
|
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| Untie |
|
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| Uncinch |
|
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| Ease up |
|
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| Unlace, perhaps |
|
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| Unlace, perhaps |
|
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| Relax, with "up" |
|
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| Ease |
|
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| Relax |
|
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| Undo, as laces |
|
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| Relax, as restrictions |
|
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| Give some slack to |
|
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| Let out |
|
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| Bend, as rules |
|
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| Unbuckle |
|
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| Relax |
|
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| Relax |
|
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| Let out a bit, as a belt |
|
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| Let out a bit, as a belt |
|
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| Relax |
|
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| Relax, as regulations |
|
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| Give some slack |
|
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| "--up!:relax |
|
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| Give some slack |
|
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| Start to untie |
|
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| Relax, with "up" |
|
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| Free up |
|
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| Give some slack |
|
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| Untie |
|
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| Become less strict, with "up" |
|
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| Unfasten |
|
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| Disengage |
|
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| Untie |
|
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| Set free |
|
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| Unbind |
|
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| Let go a bit |
|
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| Detach |
|
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| Relax. |
|
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| Slacken. |
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| Untie. |
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| Free. |
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