Related Clues:

• Trimmed, as a lawn
• The old man, looking hot, shaved
• ___ out (barely defeated)
• Beat out by a hair
• Palladium, introducing old character, cut back
• Featuring frills
• Ready for the cobbler, perhaps
• Just beat, with 'out'
• Trimmed privet maybe after spending hour with daughter
• Made thinner, as an Apple
• Reduced clergyman's department finally
• Barely avoided tying
• Spruced up, as a spruce
• Made a peeling?
• Went carefully arranging good deed