| Gradually break from a habit | 28 |
| Get the pups on solid food | 26 |
| Withdraw from dependency | 24 |
| Stop supplying with milk | 24 |
| Start giving formula to, e.g. | 29 |
| Remove, as from a habit | 23 |
| Reconcile to a severance | 24 |
| Introduce to solid foods | 24 |
| Introduce to solid food | 23 |
| Gradually withdraw (from) | 25 |
| Go from the bottle to the jar | 29 |
| Get used to solid food | 22 |
| Free from dependence on | 23 |
| Detach, as from a habit | 23 |
| Detach from dependence | 22 |
| Detach from a dependency | 24 |
| No longer on the bottle | 23 |
| Withdrew gradually (from) | 25 |
| Taken off a liquid diet? | 24 |
| Started giving the bottle to | 28 |
| No longer reliant on mother | 27 |
| Gradually stopped nursing | 25 |
| Gradually removed (from) | 24 |
| Gradually got off breast milk | 29 |
| Making independent (from) | 25 |
| Disengages from a habit | 23 |
| Trains to the cup, say | 22 |
| Takes off life support? | 23 |
| Removes dependency (from) | 25 |
| Makes independent, in a way | 27 |
| Helps off a dependency | 22 |
| Gradually withholds from | 24 |
| Gradually stops nursing | 23 |
| Disengages, as from a habit | 27 |
| Get folks to give stuff up? | 27 |
| Playmaker, metaphorically | 25 |
| Combatant's device | 22 |
| Category in the game Clue | 25 |
| Carrying a concealed ___ | 24 |
| Day-to-day deterioration | 24 |
| Deteriorate through use | 23 |
| Depreciation consideration | 26 |
| Show off, as on a runway | 24 |
| Partner of tear, sometimes | 26 |
| Follower of soft or hard | 24 |
| "What Not to ___" | 27 |
| Be ready to eat lobster | 23 |
| Not useless, as clothing | 24 |
| Emulate a trick-or-treater | 26 |
| Result of day-to-day use | 24 |
| Damage from ordinary use | 24 |
| Put on hidden recording gear | 28 |
| Shun others' advice | 23 |
| Win over by persistence | 23 |
| Prevail by persistence | 22 |
| "--- the World" | 25 |
| "#1" follows it | 25 |
| "___ not amused" | 26 |
| "All ___" Warlock | 27 |
| "___ the Champions" | 29 |
| "__ not amused" | 25 |
| '-- the World' | 22 |
| 1979 Sister Sledge hit | 22 |
| Nudist's antithesis | 23 |
| Lacking the usual oomph | 23 |
| Winning over by persistence | 27 |
| In charge, as in a family | 25 |
| Passes slowly, as a day | 23 |
| Is the head of the household | 28 |
| Stops being funny, say | 22 |
| Starts to become tiresome | 25 |
| Try one's patience | 22 |
| Animal in a kid's song | 26 |
| 'Pop Goes the --' | 25 |
| Pop maker in a nursery rhyme | 28 |
| Kind of equivocal word | 22 |
| Ferret, stoat or ermine | 23 |
| Evade, with "out" | 27 |
| Critter in a pop song? | 22 |
| Creature in a pop song? | 23 |
| Animal in a kids' song | 26 |
| ___ words (equivocations) | 25 |
| Was purposely ambiguous | 23 |
| Animals not to be trusted? | 26 |
| Dodges, as an obligation | 24 |
| Sneakily ambiguous term | 23 |
| Equivocator's term | 22 |
| "Pop," for example? | 29 |
| Aids in artful deception | 24 |
| Potter's friend Ron | 23 |
| What everybody talks about | 26 |
| Safe conversation topic | 23 |
| Meteorologist's ken | 23 |
| Everybody's concern | 23 |
| Warning about wind chill, say | 29 |
| Like oceanfront houses, often | 29 |
| Storm-predicting agency | 23 |
| Meteorologists' workplace | 29 |
| Part of the evening news | 24 |
| Meteorologists' maps | 24 |