Related Clues:

• Cuts short
• Make -- meet
• See 38-Down
• Calls a halt to
• Reaches a conclusion
• They can be made to meet
• Word with rear or book
• Climaxes
• Rings lack them
• Poles of a magnet, e.g.
• Denouements
• Fades to black
• Means justifiers, some say
• Word with front or rear
• Two slices of a loaf