This being a puzzle from 2009, it has a solver’s blog at fifteensquared. I have corrected the error mentioned.
Letters falling to the bottom row spelled THE SCALES and initial letters of clues to jumbled entries spelled FROM MY EYES, implying ‘fell’ as the thematic verb. Four scales fell in the remaining four columns.
ACROSS
1 IMBRUTED: anag; entered DRETBIUM
6 ESTRO; E + orts (rev.)
10 AIGRET; a I (re)gret
11 CAUDEX; a c (rev.) + (cr)ude(ly) + X; entered EXCADU
12 ICER; (r)icer
13 DICHROMAT; anag. + mat; entered AHIRTOMCD
14 DUCKSHOVER; ducks hover; entered KHSOUEDCRV
17 SAD-IRON; anag.
20 ECHOES; E cho(s)es; entered SEEHOC
21 SALLOW; s allow; entered LOLASW
23 ORDERED; dere in ord
27 ASBESTOSIS; best OS in as is; entered STSOISEBSA
28 ACARIDIAN; a + anag; entered DIIARANCA
29 VAIL; 3 mngs.
30 SALOON; aloo in tin; entered LNSOAO
31 EDIBLE; (cr)edible
32 EIKON; I K in eon
33 YESTREEN; yes tree N; entered ETSENYER
DOWN
1 DAIKOS; KO in dais
2 EGESTED; e.g. (t)ested
3 T(E)RROR; t + 0 in 3 Rs
4 (S)ITHENCE; the N in ice
5 (C)UPIDS; I’d in ups
6 EXTR(A)DOS; X in anag.
7 TA(L)MA; a mat (rev.)
8 R(E)D CROSS; R + c in dross
9 (S)OUDAN; oud a N
15 TERMINI; te(a)r Mini
16 FORTRAN; fort ran
18 ALLICES; all ices
19 RAG-BABY; b in rag bay
22 WHALER; hale in w,r
23 (T)ODDLE; odd (a)le
24 DONUT; do nut
25 LEVIN; (s)nivel (rev.)
26 W(H)ISK; is in wk
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