Related Clues:

• Changed formation, allowing soldiers to escape without much noise
• Muffled
• Couldn't be said it was turned down
• Belly up, journalist becomes less emphatic
• Softened, as sound
• Toned down, as a trumpet
• Quiet time, briefly, before playing duet
• Not bright, as colors
• Subdued, like a trumpet
• The heartless abuse goes round -- it must be suppressed
• In a softened tone
• Subdued; not bright
• Subdued, as colors
• Not loud
• Muffled, as a trumpet