Related Clues:

• Extricated
• Cuts the lead
• Saved from danger
• Saved (from danger)
• Delivered notes — supplied prompt
• Rescued broken contracts
• Secured criminal to be released
• Cure's worked -- boy's recovered
• Secured when wandering or let loose
• Makes smaller
• Makes something less than what it was
• Adopted, as a shelter pet
• Extricated snooker ball, gripping top of 'snooker stick'
• Secured rebel is liberated
• Lowers taken aback in coarse cud eruption