| NIFTIER | Smarter, finer it became (7) |
| AGITATO | A goat, it became hurried in movement notedly (7) |
| AUSTERE | Northern Australia before it became forbidding (7) |
| ERITREA | It became independent of Ethiopia in 1993 (7) |
| TAINTED | At end, it became corrupted (7) |
| INTENSE | In time it became strained (7) |
| ASEPTIC | Space, it became sterile (7) |
| TRAMCAR | It became obsolete when the market backed the automobile (7) |
| NAIROBI | Capital of Kenya, founded in 1899; it became the capital in 1905 (7) |
| MONSOON | New Zealand beat Scotland in one in 1975 - it became known as the Water Polo Test (7) |
| TRUANCY | After the churchyard gate was removed, it became truly chancy to indulge in class-skipping (7) |
| DROPPED | The old currency took a dive, then it became clear why (3,5,7) |
| MCCALLS | It became "Rosie" in 2001 |
| FORTORD | It became the campus of Cal State Monterey Bay |
| CROATIA | It became independent in 1991 |
| STENGUN | It became the standard light weapon used by British and Commonwealth armed forces in World War Two (4,3) |
| WETLAND | In what type of place did the Norfolk damselfly from England live, before it became extinct? |
| ASSYRIA | Emerging as an independent state in the 14th century BCE, it became a major power in Mesopotamia, Armenia, and sometimes in northern Syria, before declining after the death of Tukulti-Ninurta I about |
| 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 |
