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Puzzle #27 - August 2003. What is the title of this puzzle?

Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from three to eight letters), 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 margin continue on the next line below; down words that don't end at the bottom margin continue in the next column to the right. Seven across words and six down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is omitted. Those thirteen letters, taken in order, spell two words related to three other words hidden in the completed grid that solvers are invited to find. The three hidden words should suggest a title for this puzzle. Answers include three proper names and one two-word phrase. As ever, I am grateful to Kevin Wald for help with the clues. (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?]

Across

  1. Start of summer confusion and oppressive heat
  2. Make up for being in accord
  3. Jacob's wife stays in while ahead
  4. Destroy core of cedar tree
  5. Start copying tool for making holes in a jug
  6. Phosphorus in urine is an item of trade
  7. One mean, nasty coelenterate
  8. Pitches with pain in one's ears
  9. Start of good morning conversation
  10. Taken in by zero variance of reproductive glands
  11. Star seen initially up north
  12. Island Indian keeping time
  13. Removing first of three broken lunate bones
  14. The sea in France is less effective
  15. Understands what's said of oceans
  16. Make the best of one exam after another
  17. Hamlet, eg, grabs Claudius's head in jig
  18. Note in trail causes stupor
  19. Extreme in careful tracking
  20. Factual note ending with direction
  21. A name that malicious talk brought back
  22. Study injury-producing twist
  23. A mammal the panel reclassified

Down

  1. Strike interrupted by first half of long race
  2. Penny gets a measure of glue
  3. Poetically in the middle of what we enter
  4. Mineral from Korea
  5. Student Charles, confused, replacing number with zero
  6. Turn out a tennis star
  7. What's that about Art World?
  8. Rest at usual holding position
  9. Cleaned set off with lemon veneer
  10. Ether disrupted a crowd
  11. Change in general terms
  12. Turn money over, keeping quiet for a month
  13. Asks eastern stranger about time
  14. Report solitary indebtedness
  15. Writing involves money and time
  16. Woman has work cut out
  17. Every second of mangled time
  18. Impromptu closing: coming back around end of March
  19. Declare a lock-up
  20. Examine small container
  21. Standard metal fitting turned up in back
  22. No place for gas
  23. English fellow consumed by issue
  24. Relative of wild tuna

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