Related Clues:

• Chop off, as branches
• Paste's partner
• Remove, as branches
• Release from the team
• Make cuts at the branch
• Make a bough break?
• Action stopper
• Rib or short loin
• See 44 Across
• Amputate (with "off")
• Shear (off)
• Director's 'Stop!'
• Prune with an axe
• Director's command
• Severed