Possible Clues:

• Reduce size, getting private rooms into solid shape
• Shorten to ''Bamboozle the lame-brains''
• Study dull precis
• Make summary for criminal of little brain
• Shrink and send off, once freshly wrapped
• Study needs to be edited and cut down
• Remove water from
• Shorten 'Send off to get into shape'
• Reduce study with the intellectually challenged
• To put it briefly, shape the homes are in