| BUSPASS | Free or reduced-fare travel document (3,4) |
| FRIABLE | Easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder. |
| DRAWING | Represent arc-welding as enlarged or reduced version (5,7) |
| ELDERLY | Like someone paying a reduced fare, maybe |
| SENIORS | They get reduced fares (7) |
| RELEASE | From "stretch out again, slacken", a word for acquittance, emancipation, liberation, remission, a setting free or other real or figurative unshackling (7) |
| EARLOBE | Body part that may be "free" or "attached" |
| REHEATS | Set hare free - or puts in microwave, perhaps (7) |
| UNBOWED | Free or unconquered |
| STERILE | Germ-free or infertile (7) |
| UNLOOSE | Set free or tied up, it seems (7) |
| OPENAIR | A free or unenclosed space outdoors (4,3) |
| REFEREE | Before going in, break free or he will blow the whistle (7) |
| ACACIA | Genus of trees with compound or reduced leaves and small yellow or white flowers (6) |
| TONED | --- down (quietened or reduced in intensity) |
| COMPRESSED | Condensed or reduced in volume (10) |
| ABATED | Lessened or reduced in intensity. (6) |
| WANED | Ebbed or reduced in intensity |
| ANNULLED | Declared invalid, or reduced to nothing (8) |
| SLUG | Terrestrial gastropod mollusc having an absent or reduced shell (4) |
