| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| ABATEMENT | Mitigation | |
| ASSUAGEMENT | Mitigation; abatement. | |
| SELFDEFENCE | Plea in mitigation | |
| SELF DEFENCE | Plea in mitigation (4-7) | |
| FAVOR | Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity. | |
| ALLAYMENT | An allaying; that which allays; mitigation. | |
| PALLIATION | Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease. | |
| MITIGABLE | Admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated. | |
| ALLEVIATION | The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief. | |
| RIGOROUS | Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, ... | |
| MITIGATION | ...gated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity... | |
| EXTENUATION | ...xtenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of p... | |