### Clue: Confine temper when the game is safe (5,6)
### Answer: CLOSE SEASON 
 ### Explanation: Definition: when the game is safe
  CLOSE(confine,shut as a verb) SEASON(to mitigate,moderate,temper as in "to season one's admiration with reticence")
Defn:  The period when hunters are not allowed to hunt, and, hence, when the game,their quarry is safe from them