Possible Clues:

• By the sound of it, giant close
• Make more constrictive
• Sound of giant to be more constrained
• Strong person, we hear, to become tense
• Make more taut
• Wind up Cronus, maybe one might say
• Turn to the right, say?
• Contract, massive thing by the sound of it
• For the audience, draw a number -- get tense
• Powerful person's pronouncement put an end to slacking