Possible Clues:

• Inventory ___ (euphemism for shoplifting)
• The amount by which something diminishes
• Process of becoming less
• Quiet anger about writer's fluid waste allowance
• Wise in accepting hard area of ice will show effect of melting?
• First lady's old man hiding options
• Asking her out is a withering experience
• After a long life one does not get longer
• Loss of stock from years under psychiatrist?
• A gherkin's pickled, getting smaller