Related Clues:

• Remove from the freezer
• Feel less angry, so to speak
• Melt down
• Reduction in tension
• Turn slushy
• Prepare for cooking
• Treat leniently, with 'on'
• Ease, as hostilities
• Winter-to-spring transition
• Reduce the mineral content of, as water
• Make less hard
• Become less icy
• Lose iciness
• Cold-War-to-detente transition
• Grow less adamant