Related Clues:

• Scale down
• Prune
• Whittle
• Strip a fruit
• Downsize
• Remove the rind
• Trim the excess
• Whittle away
• Whittle down
• Lessen, with 'down'
• Whittle (down)
• Homophone of 15-Across
• Remove, in a way
• Reduce, as expenses
• Shave