Related Clues:

• Gave for a time
• Cried ''uncle!''
• 40-day period
• Mardi Gras follow-up
• Fast forty?
• Mardi Gras aftermath
• Spring season
• Ratted
• Ash Wednesday kicks it off
• Something you did at the office, perhaps
• Gave away verbally
• Was a fink
• Penitent period
• Pre-Easter period
• It starts on a Wednesday