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).

1. Mystery entry
2. Desires, resurging within, increase in intensity
3. Mystery entry
4. Type of pasta boxed in European Alps
5. Excavation around ancient Sumerian city belonging to a family of rodents
6. Sell a quid a mixed tortilla
7. Gloomy, small creditors
8. Leave out, initially, one man in three
9. Cauchos of yule season
10. Pension plan man
11. Meets, regroups, distributes
12. Mystery entry
13. Reassessed trader's confusion about energy
14. Mystery entry
15. Steal essentially sacred pair of ibises
16. Fumes from five out of six brooks
17. Pueblo table has stain
18. Walled vineyard's partly enclosed
19. A Slav in Brussels
20. Help North Ireland's back country
21. Pertaining to raw data of cosmetics
22. Mystery entry
23. Fiber from retreating animal
24. Receipts from delegates
25. Mystery entry

1. Praiseworthy telegram contains radical rewrite
2. Calcium compound mixed; limed too
3. Brisk movement of fish you said escaped
4. Lulu's got heart of limp horseshoe crab
5. Condescend to hold small drawing
6. Unwilling to start nursing sick
7. Was initially present at the place
8. Chains of about ten atomic electrons
9. Buzz about acceptable nonsense
10. Distressed Ted "Oy" idled
11. Sibling hides letter in passage
12. Embarrassing outburst of obsceneness
13. Tropical birds in leaves
14. Mystical animal having two horns
15. Unnatural sound to play out
16. Retroactively forbid arrest
17. Projecting points in cans with errors
18. Cora went off with a bow
19. Portuguese navigator spoke back
20. Alternative chemical form is more volatile
21. Metal fabricators worked TN mine
22. National collection United States not available