Possible Clues:

• Cut loose
• Remove from contact
• Tear, as a perforated part
• Separate note to a head about start of term
• In winter month that's hard, soldiers become cut off
• Take away section of home-made tachometer
• Remove heart from actor and replace with volunteers
• Remove from something else, say a coupon
• Separate date arranged by church
• How to separate the TD from his ache