| STENTORIAN | Loud, resonant it became (10) |
| WHANG | Loud, resonant sound |
| LEATHERLUNGED | With a loud, resonant voice |
| CLANG | Loud, resonant, metallic sound (5) |
| CLANGOUR | Loud resonant often-repeated noise (8) |
| CLANGOR | Loud, resonant sound |
| CLANGS | Loud, resonant metallic sounds (6) |
| COAGULATED | Glued with a coat it became quickly congealed |
| BOOM | A period of prosperity; or, the loud resonant sound of an explosion, thunder or of the bittern (4) |
| KISSMEKATE | An often-revived 1948 musical inspired by Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew; it became a 1953 film (3,2,4) |
| THEPENNYDROPPED | It became apparent, then it became a mother or a father? (3,5,7) |
| GUAM | Spain ruled it before it became a US territory |
| SPITTOON | It was missed even before it became outmoded. (8) |
| FIRSTIMPRESSION | What one thought of the book before it became a big seller? (5,10) |
| ENTWINED | Used wine and had to end it as it became interlaced (8) |
| BAIGNEUSE | It is a bathing cap, which corresponds to the "dormeuse," or sleeping cap. Originally a cap with a purpose, intended for sleeping or for bathing, it became part of a citizen's everyday wear with varia |
| CARBONARI | It is a felt hat with a wide brim and high crown, originally worn by the inhabitants of the Italian province of Calabria. Later it became an article of ladies fashion, particularly as a summer straw h |
| VERONA | It became a Roman colony in 89 BCE and rose in importance because it was at the junction of main roads between Italy and northern Europe. The poet Catullus was born there. In Romeo and Juliet (act 1, |
| PISA | It is a city on the Arno 50 miles (80 km) west of Florence. It became a Roman colony soon after 180 BCE. Its university was founded circa 1343. Its piazza includes a certain leaning tower. In The Tami |
| AXILLARY | It was to do with the jawbone but when meal starter was gone it became the armpit (8) |
