- TAMES
- Breaks, as a bronco
- Tones down
- Domesticates
- Breaks, in a way
- Subdues
- Renders tractable
- Makes less unruly
- Makes more comfortable with human interaction
- Reins in
- Brings under control
- Controls
- Gets under control
- Busts broncos
- Breaks, as a stallion
- Makes docile
- Harnesses
- Breaks the bronco
- Emulates a horse whisperer
- Brings to heel
- Gets a handle on
- Gentles
- Makes manageable
- Calms down
- Softens
- Breaks
- Busts
- What Petruchio does.
- Masters.
- Handles, as a shrew
- Emulates Petruchio
- Breaks, as a horse
- Makes the wild mild
- Subdues a shrew
- Becomes docile
- Calms
- Breaks ... or an anagram of the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle
- Busts, as broncos
- Fixes, as unruly hair
- Takes the wildness out of
- Does some bronco-busting, e.g.
- Subdues, as wild hair
- Causes to be docile
- Instills docility in
- Breaks, as a bronc
- Pacifies
- Breaks in
- Makes less feral
- Makes less wild
- Quiets
- Breaks a bronco
- Curbs
- Civilizes
- Breaks on a ranch
- Breaks, at a ranch
- Busts, as a bronco
- Makes easier to control
- Breaks, perhaps
- Breaks, say
