Possible Clues:

• Men's assets put in order for valuation
• Masses sent millions to drop appraisal
• Evaluation of fools dispatched to capture capital of Malta
• Valuation
• Dunces beamed, perhaps, receiving marks for test
• Sanction admitting terrible mess in amount of tax due
• Rating, when hardened, accepts ship's crew
• Rating's permit includes ship's canteen, starter to finish
• Reckoning that one might agree to be about a muddled mess