Related Clues:

• Start to clear a cribbage board
• Release from being caught on a nail, say
• Remove a violin string, e.g
• Pick up stakes
• Allow to float, as currency
• Remove, as a violin string
• Pull out, as a dowel
• Out of bed around noon, for one’s release
• Remove, as a hat from a hat rack
• Detangle
• Clean a cribbage board
• Let off the hook perhaps by newsgroup losing rows
• A French president, for example, let off the hook perhaps?
• Break the tie between, as two currencies' exchange rates
• Pick up stake after stake