Possible Clues:

• Happy after tenancy comes to stop
• Stop grant at university
• Easing off; breather
• The French applied to go north in relief
• Slacken off, as rainfall
• Abate into a drizzle (2 words)
• Grant at university came to an end
• Back off a bit
• Allowed out of bed? That's a relief
• Lull, with lease finishing