"clean the mess" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it in a sentence such as: "I was tasked with cleaning the mess in the kitchen."
The state, spurred by the West Nile threat, is also acting to clean the mess.
The worst drawback is that it can't see what's in its path or assess if hoovering is the best way to clean the mess that confronts it.
She is about to clean the mess but he says: "Leave that to your mother … I never intended to involve you in any of this.
"Sometimes it's a good idea to open the tap in a calibrated fashion, lest you flood the place and then have to erratically close the tap or clean the mess," Mr. Chadha said.
Mr. Fredericks listed all the people who had spent hours trying to clean the mess the students had created in a matter of seconds: police officers, lawyers, teachers, principals, hundreds of families.
But replacing the old oil tank comes from another impulse, which is pure, blind fear — the fear of poisoning our little patch of green, of contaminating groundwater, of devastating wildlife and otherwise visiting ruin on something pristine and good and then depleting all our resources to clean the mess up.
