| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| DISCONTINUE | Desist | |
| LEAVEOFF | Desist | |
| STOP | Desist | |
| CEASE | Desist | |
| ABSTAIN | Desist, Refrain | |
| DESISTED | Of Desist | |
| DESISTING | Of Desist | |
| BLIN | To stop; to cease; to desist. | |
| SPARE | To desist; to stop; to refrain. | |
| LEAVE | To cease; to desist; to leave off. | |
| SLACKEN | To end; to cease; to desist; to slake. | |
| ABSIST | To stand apart from; top leave off; to desist. | |
| RELINQUISH | To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit. | |
| REST | To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion. | |
| RECEDE | To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition. | |
| DEPART | To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading. | |
| EXPOSTULATE | ...opriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed ... | |