Related Clues:

• Reduce
• Shrink
• Make cutbacks
• Modern word meaning to reduce scale of activities in economy drive
• Reduce filler and stiffener
• Do some firing
• Fire some folks
• Reduce staff and sad, sad expressions might be heard
• Use feathers and glue to reduce workforce
• (Of company) shed staff
• Sell up and move to a smaller property
• Diminish the work force ... or a literal hint to the answers to the four starred clues
• Reduce a staff, and make seven squares in this puzzle smaller, in a way
• Move to a smaller residence
• Shed staff