Related Clues:

• Heeded a 5 Across
• Made redundant by a cross editor
• Christian festival
• Given the chop
• Chopped off
• Got rid of, as an agency
• Took a hatchet to
• Fired — cut down
• Retired with difficulty
• Reduced drastically
• Thrown up in the air
• Got rid of, in a way
• Split, as a log
• Felled in the forest
• Cut from the roster