Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (answers vary in length from four to eleven letters, and six are capitalized) then enter them in the grid one after another in the same order as their clues, starting in the upper left corner. Across words that don't end at the right continue on the next row, and down words that don't end at the bottom continue in the next column. Eleven across words and ten down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is omitted. Those twenty-one letters, taken in order as they occur in across and down words, spell a seven-word message related to the mystery entry. Thanks to Kevin Wald for test-solving and editing this puzzle. (If you are having trouble printing these puzzles, you can download an Adobe Acrobat version of the puzzle and grid). [Want to see some hints?]

1. A dime could get cut to a twelfth
2. Mandarin has a point about rage
3. Minor fracas about English wool
4. Number of children in Eden
5. Author returned boy's badge
6. Keen to get new class of chemical compound
7. Massachusetts in 1620, eg: end of story
8. Modification turned louder around 5
9. Never goes back after Republican leaves flat
10. Revised dates for glacial time period
11. Evidence Peter started to drift
12. Beginning to read badly scored documents
13. Examination inside was cancelled
14. Small, pale bird
15. Starting another list of edible African succulent plants
16. Idle, broken-down toiler
17. Muffler license renewed before start of race
18. Kind of music Harry plays in company
19. Unlikely result for an overcoat
20. Finally seeing girl in mirror
21. Priest, fulminating about love, gets sharp retort

1. Sick lady swallows one every 24 hours
2. One welder encloses a vertical support
3. Messenger getting $1000 for rabbi and warrant officer
4. Frightening wound you opened
5. Google essentially redesigned trademark
6. Dakota Indian put nothing in damaged tent
7. Small living quarters and initially empty digs require this
8. Savonarola's rising star
9. Reviles birds
10. A passerine among passerines
11. Mean swindle gets 1000 for 500
12. A songbird is so nice in flight
13. Water's on for a period of time
14. Ruin debris and eastern waste
15. A thicket of fuzz and earth
16. Carbon & calx produce weather conditions
17. My uncle in Paris drops new eye piece
18. Sent back mugs and junk mail
19. Lift to reveal disorder
20. Fuss about the French blade
21. Italian port from very English city in France
22. Southern instructor's stretcher
23. Look small when gaining weight