Answer:

fasts

Answer	Crossword Clue
FASTS	Goes on strike, in a way
FASTS	Periods of self-denial
FASTS	Protestors' deprivations

FASTS	Observes Ramadan
FASTS	Extreme diets
FASTS	Observes Ramadan, in a way
FASTS	Abstains from eating
FASTS	Prepares for surgery, possibly
FASTS	Goes on a strike of a sort
FASTS	Does without, in a way
FASTS	More than diets

FASTS	Doesn't have a thing
FASTS	Observes Ramadan, e.g.
FASTS	Eschews food
FASTS	Some protests
FASTS	Doesn't put anything away for a while?
FASTS	Some religious observances
FASTS	Goes on a hunger strike
FASTS	Forgoes food

FASTS	Crash diets
FASTS	Conducts a hunger strike
FASTS	Ramadans
FASTS	Avoids food
FASTS	Doesn't take anything in
FASTS	Diets drastically
FASTS	Eats nothing
FASTS	Abstains from food

FASTS	Doesn't eat
FASTS	Doesn't eat for a while
FASTS	They're broken on Eid ul-Fitr
FASTS	Observes Yom Kippur
FASTS	Goes without nourishment
FASTS	Numerous periods in Gandhi's life.
FASTS	Gandhi's political protests.
FASTS	Gandhi's protests.

FASTS	Observes Ember days.
FASTS	Religious observances.
FASTS	Abstains from food.
FASTS	Lenten disciplines.
FASTS	Abstinences.