Related Clues:

• Reduces one's speed
• Slackens the pace
• Daughter rejected Yale, beginning to stack shelves
• Obeys a yellow light
• Prepares to cross a speed bump
• Slayed (anag.)
• Slows someone or something down or make them late
• Periods in which the French may get held up — or anyone else
• Leans on the brakes
• Comes to a crawl