Possible Clues:

• Striking hat? It might be Haydn's
• Forming response, Conservative shifts to the left
• God's act of bringing the universe into existence
• Brainchild of Theban king protecting a palmlike plant
• Making response, Charlie moves to the front
• Burning bodies Shechem at last removed in Genesis
• Piece of artistic handiwork
• Forming response, Conservative rises
• Something that's made Conservative irate, no wild!
• Beginning event