- WANE
- Wax counterpart
- Wax's counterpart
- Decrease
- Ease off
- Slack off
- Ebb
- Decline
- Alternative to wax
- Begin to fade
- Diminish
- Draw to a close
- Fall-off
- Pull back
- Recede
- Drop off
- Subside
- Wind down
- Taper off
- Get closer to new
- Diminish gradually
- Peter out
- Wax's opposite
- Lose intensity
- Gradual decline
- Grow smaller
- Flag
- Shrink, as the visible part of the moon
- Fade away
- Tail off
- Die down
- Dwindle
- Decrease gradually
- Lose brilliance
- Wax remover?
- See 43 across
- Post-full moon occurrence
- Wax partner
- Diminish slowly
- Decrease in intensity
- Lose impact
- Gradually decrease
- Fade
- Grow faint
- Contract
- Lose influence
- Lose strength
- Decline gradually
- Decrease in strength
- Opposite of wax
- Lose energy
- Abate
- Dim
- Become less important
- Grow dim
- Lose power
- Lessen
- Flow back
- Decline in power
- Lose force
- Fall from power.
- Relative of wax.
- Fall in power
- Wax's partner
- Approach an end
- Pass one's heyday
- Become less brilliant
- Anagram for anew
- Antithesis of wax
- Wax antonym
- Go downhill
- Lessen in power
- Wax off?
- Go down
- Be on the way out
- Decrease, as the moon
- Become less bright, as the moon
- What moons do after full moons
- Lose oomph
- Draw to an end
- Decline, as in popularity
- Become less full, as the moon
- Start to go out
- Go down, in a way
- Stop waxing, say
- A full moon will do this
- Decrease in size, as the moon
- Die out
- Get smaller, as the moon
- Become progressively smaller
- Lessen in intensity
- Gradually decline
- Become less intense
- Get smaller gradually
- Languish
- Period of gradual decline
- Shrink, as the moon
- Go downhill, in a way
- Grow less visible, as the moon
- Lose zip
- Gradually become smaller
- Diminish over time
- Lessen gradually
- What full moons gradually do
- Get smaller
- Decrease in power