Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (answers vary in length from three to eleven letters, and four 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. Ten across words and nine down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is omitted. Those nineteen letters, taken in order as they occur in across and down words, spell a four-word phrase 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. Hot sap rendered a kind of salt
2. Good tenant: one who cleans and tidies
3. Idle, wayward aunt goes after Teddy
4. Note very Irish gear
5. Fish gave off an odor
6. Claim of Mohave rancher
7. Exchange includes metal cracker
8. Margin of convergence
9. Vessel in burning cafe could be a hotspot
10. Move away from bad decree
11. Mystery entry
12. Dominion ruler imprisoning chief of police and head of embassy
13. Loses nuts in sedimentary deposit
14. A sudden stream expelled with energy
15. Bug in vehicle going back around Iran
16. Bird seen in Budapest or Krakow
17. Clunker returned by Earl for repair
18. One involved in illegal votes for governing council
19. Erica to run around noon
20. Remove fluid from partly wet appliance
21. Affirmation about lines and calls
22. A gaseous cloud's unconscious state
23. Réunion meat show

1. Prevent Charlie's taking part in opening
2. Stripped lug in defective spoiler is dangerous
3. Tonto recalled getting wounded
4. Generate energy in fish out of nothing
5. Endurance of flower organs
6. High-spirited aspect of expertise
7. Staff can start to exercise
8. Indigene is unsophisticated about time
9. Bump rudely jolts end
10. Randy, rich and so masculine, getting baptismal robe
11. Carved head of giant bird
12. City of Denver on Amazon
13. Back eliminating Sunday for worship
14. All about union having a spurious wing
15. Cleveland's great traveler
16. Confine around end of August
17. Noxious germ, for years inside of eye, will get out
18. The French ship is more limited
19. Opposed a bad serve
20. Warship wreck restored around end of May
21. Tell about iron shirt for security
22. Dig holes, randomly, around five