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Special Puzzle - April 2002 "Jumping Genes"

Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from three to ten letters), then enter them in the grid one after another in the same order as their clues, starting in the upper left corner. Across words that don't end at the right margin continue on the next line below. Down words that don't end at the bottom margin continue in the next column to the right. Ten across words and ten down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is removed. Those twenty letters, taken in order, spell a two-word phrase related to the title of the puzzle. Answers include five proper names. Warning: The clues to this puzzle have been doctored in the following manner. Components of ten across and ten down clues have been exchanged. For example, a normal clue for FLAG might be "get weak signal," and for PREY "hear appeal of victim," but after an exchange of components, the result might be "get weak victim" and "hear appeal of signal." Exchanges are always a two-way affair between an across and a down clue. There are no three-way exchanges. If you are having trouble printing these puzzles, you can download an Adobe Acrobat version of the puzzle and grid. [Want to see some hints?]

Across

  1. Stick around city track
  2. Extensive group of falcons scattered
  3. Title around current overwritten manuscript
  4. Put it in when pale
  5. Small, secure, slow mover
  6. Left out of mobile, evolving African country
  7. Writes headless, incoherent essays
  8. Bad line stroke
  9. Caught in trap, near breathlessness
  10. Blow up seaside
  11. Take off for small voyage
  12. Proper houses essential for hanging
  13. Up-to-date blackbird
  14. Come to rest with right roomer
  15. Get up in Paris early
  16. Position in an animal
  17. Right out of state possession
  18. Infielders start training at an early stage
  19. Loose armor stays dry
  20. Tolerate small mass
  21. Gang of Burma or India
  22. Implement a St. Paul renewal
  23. Indecent Old Bailey admittance

Down

  1. Mischievous children figure in most pallid pavement
  2. Meal about over
  3. Course setting
  4. Bugle's first and final blow
  5. Ten real changes going on forever
  6. Fall in when mutually turned around
  7. Meadow bird
  8. Extraterrestrial in jungle mural
  9. Not as hard as Erie running
  10. Impression of pointed implement
  11. City in America, England, or France
  12. Oh, wow! A double curve
  13. Aboriginal people initiating most of brawls
  14. End of bad, unhealthy herb
  15. Feather state
  16. Body holds Muhammad in ecological community
  17. Time to muse
  18. Room without high arch
  19. Gather energy for security
  20. Fly after flushed fashion nurse
  21. Steer cautiously around road from Oslo, maybe
  22. In school foundation
  23. General sickness

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