| ERODING | Eating away gradually as a shoreline |
| ERODES | Wears away gradually, as shoreline |
| ERODED | Wore away gradually, as shorelines |
| ERODE | Wear away gradually as soil |
| EROSE | Uneven, as a shoreline |
| EVASE | Enlarging gradually, as a chimney. |
| EASEOUT | Remove gradually, as a vintage LP from its sleeve |
| PHASEIN | Start gradually, as a program |
| EBB | Decline gradually, as a tide |
| FADEIN | Appear gradually, as a scene |
| FADINGIN | Appearing gradually, as a film scene |
| HOUSEGUEST | Visitor, as husband's away, gradually moves inside (5,5) |
| GROWNAPART | Cut ties gradually, as with a close friend or a family member |
| SLOWBURNING | Term meaning steadily combusting, fuming or smouldering, either literally or figuratively; or, unfolding contemplatively/ gradually, as in a film or a story (4-7) |
| CREEK | Narrow sheltered waterway, specially an inlet in a shoreline or a channel in a salt marsh (5) |
| PUGET | A wide indentation of a shoreline, or the body of water bounded by such a curve (5) |
| COASTGUARD | A drug a Scot turned out for a shoreline patroller (10) |
| WEAN | Detach gradually, as from a habit |
| ININSTALLMENTS | Gradually, as to pay off a loan |
| ROTATEIN | Add gradually, as crops to a field |
