Possible Clues:

• Potentially deafening build-up late around war torn area
• It could make you imperfectly aware and cross
• Swab's target
• Protects the listener from former partner covering a new form of war
• Protects the listener from former partner covering new form of a war
• Yellow stuff, some corn gets to grow bigger
• Substance accumulating in the lugholes
• Shell-like secretion
• Yellow bodily secretion
• Cerumen; war axe (anag.)