PUZZLE #201: Crypticrostic 3

PUZZLE #201

CRYPTICROSTIC 3

This next puzzle is a Crypticrostic, a type of puzzle that has been notorious for being extremely difficult (after all, only four people managed to solve the first one of these). As usual, I first sent this one to my test-solver, Joseph DeVincentis, and while he did indeed solve it, he noted that it was even harder than usual and gave me a couple ideas of easing the pain, so to speak. One of them was slightly altering a couple clues, and the other one... well, read the directions and find out!

Below is an Anacrostic with no spaces. Using normal Anacrostic rules, work back and forth between it and the clues to completely fill it out. However, all the clues are in cryptic crossword style, meaning that each clue has two halves: a definition of the answer and an indication of the answer's literal makeup via wordplay. Either half may come first, but to make things easier, both halves have been divided by a gray vertical bar. For a list of cryptic clue types, you can get one through these links.

Once you're done, the Anacrostic will reveal a cryptic clue that will lead you to the FINAL ANSWER: A title with the pattern of [9, 4]

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48
__ __ __ __ __
49 50 51 52 53

Beheading very thin | American, for one [7]
   __ __ __ __ __ __ __
   08 45 20 34 04 29 16

Friends | belonging to Kate's sitcom partner [6]
   __ __ __ __ __ __
   06 43 33 48 11 50

Old Roman racer's | spirit protecting a really funny fellow [10]
   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
   10 47 22 17 28 51 24 37 42 01

Cowering | catcher going in a circle [8]
   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
   46 30 25 09 53 35 41 03

Shoot inside of an involved | Spanish dance [8]
   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
   36 13 52 07 32 05 19 40

Heading forward, bring back Robert E. Lee's | antenna [6]
   __ __ __ __ __ __
   14 27 31 38 21 44

Brood | claimed it ate fragment [8]
   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
   26 49 12 39 23 18 15 02

Once you think you know what the FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com (though I'm more likely to check the second one) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in about two weeks. You can also use those email addresses to give me some comments and feedback (or get a hint from me in exchange for a "hint star", more details for that are on the sidebar to the right) or send me the answer to last week's puzzle, if you haven't already figured it out. If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for a version you can print out!