Related Clues:

• Pull strings?
• Loosen
• Loosen, in a way
• Break a tie?
• Prepare to remove a sneaker
• Loosen, as a shoe
• Get ready to take off
• Prepare to slip out of, perhaps
• Untie
• Prepare to remove an ice skate
• Break a tie?
• Prepare to slip off
• Loosen, as skates
• Not the sound of not, to boot
• Loosen a sneaker