Eventually landed in Dundee, for a change, on September 3rd (5,2)
I believe the answer is:
ended up
'eventually landed' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to change as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'dundee for a change on september 3rd' is the wordplay.
'for a change' indicates anagramming the letters.
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'september 3rd' becomes 'p' (3rd letter of 'september').
'dundee' with letters rearranged gives 'endedu'.
'endedu'+'p'='ENDED UP'
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ended up that I've seen before include "Arrived eventually" , "Finished" , "Reached final state (as)" .)