| AUXIT | It grew and got bigger: sic crevit nasus Pinocchioni mentiti |
| KNOT | It shows where twig grew and might be a bow (4) |
| FLOURISHED | Powdery stuff I allowed to fall to ground grew and blossomed |
| CREVI | Cresco, crescere, ____, cretum: I was born, grew, and waxed |
| GREW | You and I stood by King George and got bigger (4) |
| SNOWBALLED | Had winter fun and got bigger quickly (10) |
| ENLARGED | The lad turned green and got bigger! (8) |
| EXPANDED | Deep and, around ten, it grew (8) |
| DAWNED | It grew light and the dew appeared |
| ROME | It grew from a small town on the Tiber River in central Italy into a vast empire. It is today Italy's capital. In Hamlet (act 2, scene 2), Hamlet says, "My lord, I have news to tell you. When Roscius |
| MULTIPLIED | Doctor lied: lump -- it grew (10) |
| GEOMETRY | What the acorn said when it grew up, in a classic math joke |
| ONELINER | "I used to hate facial hair, but then it grew on me," e.g. |
| STRAGGLED | Drags gelt out as it grew so untidily (9) |
| DADJOKE | 'I used to hate my beard. but then it grew on me," e.g. |
| OFLIFE | See 26, where it grew. Now stumped? God only knows? (4,2,4) |
| TREE | See 26, where it grew. Now stumped? God only knows? (4,2,4) |
| DARKENED | The end Drake turned to as it grew less light (8) |
| PORBEAGLE | Large predatory shark, Lamna nasus (9) |
| NARES | Nasus (f pl noun); corrugare ____ to sneer (Horace, according to Quintilian 11.3.80) |