The enumerated clues lead to answers in alphabetical order:
| Clue A | Answer A |
|---|---|
| Hamilton frenemy | BURR |
| Numbered cube | DIE |
| Cheap bar | DIVE |
| Strongest of Thorin's companions | DORI |
| On fire | FLAMING |
| Water and lava do this | FLOW |
| Cheesy potato recipe | GRATIN |
| Basic time interval | HOUR |
| Bury | INTER |
| Bigger than mediums | LARGES |
| Outdoor rug | MAT |
| Not glossy | MATTE |
| Sumatran swinger, informally | ORANG |
| Sprinted faster | OUTRAN |
| Extremely minimal cover | PASTIES |
| Asiatic Centella | PENNYWORT |
| Purple fruit | PLUM |
| Prior to 1914 | PREWAR |
| Bon mot | QUIP |
| Searches by digging | ROOTLES |
| Sight, which we lack, is one | SENSE |
| Singer Amos | TORI |
| Setting for Gavin & Stacey | WALES |
| Exclamation on a roller coaster | WHEE |
What's gone wrong with the old clues? Because it's the Three Blind Mice, you need to "chop off the tails" – truncate at the end, in this case at word boundaries.
| Answer B | Clue B (after chopping) | Chopped from clue B |
|---|---|---|
| PASTIEST | Most white | rappers |
| PENNYWORTH | He attends the house of Wayne | Ellington |
| OUTRANK | A general usually does this | assignment |
| DORIS | Hitchcockian costar of Jimmy | Durante |
| HOURI | One of 72 | that orbit Jupiter |
| LARGESS | Generosity | has this benefit |
| MATH | Counting | everyone |
| GRATING | Awful quality of sound | cancelling headphones |
| DIEU | Jean-Paul Sartre's ""God | has abandoned us"" |
| QUIPU | Knotty record | of a thorny problem |
| ROOTLESS | Having no home | phone |
| BURRO | Regional name for a donkey | punch |
| FLAMINGO | Pink bird | egg |
| SENSEI | Karate teacher | dress code |
| FLOWN | Something birds have done | on my windshield |
| TORIC | Like a doughnut | fryer |
| MATTER | Liquid or gas | fuel |
| WHEEL | Simple machine | learning algorithms |
| WALESA | Polish President | Eisenhower's medals |
| PLUME | Feather, | to Yankee Doodle |
| PREWARM | Heat a little bit early | to qualify for the race |
| ORANGE | William's House | election predictions |
| INTERN | Employee who works for free | rides |
| DIVER | He's in the deep | South |
These answers match up with the answers from the first list, but only if you again "chop off their tails" – this time, just the last letter.
As an intermediate hint, in case it's needed, the first letters of the portion of the clues that were chopped off spells out "READ THE CHOPPED OFF LETTERS".
| Answer A | chopped letter | Answer B |
|---|---|---|
| BURR | O | BURRO |
| DIE | U | DIEU |
| DIVE | R | DIVER |
| DORI | S | DORIS |
| FLAMING | O | FLAMINGO |
| FLOW | N | FLOWN |
| GRATIN | G | GRATING |
| HOUR | I | HOURI |
| INTER | N | INTERN |
| LARGES | S | LARGESS |
| MAT | H | MATH |
| MATTE | R | MATTER |
| ORANG | E | ORANGE |
| OUTRAN | K | OUTRANK |
| PASTIES | T | PASTIEST |
| PENNYWORT | H | PENNYWORTH |
| PLUM | E | PLUME |
| PREWAR | M | PREWARM |
| QUIP | U | QUIPU |
| ROOTLES | S | ROOTLESS |
| SENSE | I | SENSEI |
| TORI | C | TORIC |
| WALES | A | WALESA |
| WHEE | L | WHEEL |
Reading those last letters spells out OUR SONG IN SHREK THE MUSICAL. In Shrek: The Musical, the Three Blind Mice are minor characters, and they sing the song MAKE A MOVE.