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Solution to Special Puzzle--April 2002 "Jumping Genes"

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Parentheses around a letter mean that it has to be omitted before the word will fit in the grid. The omitted letters spell:

TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS

Across

  1. PAS (T) URE
  2. B (R) OADCAST
  3. MAC (A) DAM
  4. WHITEN
  5. S (N) AIL
  6. BIOME
  7. TRIE (S)
  8. LIEN
  9. APNEA
  10. ENLARGE
  11. STRI (P)
  12. ROPE
  13. MODERN
  14. LODGER
  15. ARISE
  16. ALIEN
  17. ASSET
  18. BA (S) EMENT
  19. SEAR
  20. LUMP
  21. MAORI
  22. SAPTUL (A)
  23. O (B) SCENE

Down

  1. PA (L) IMPSEST
  2. R (E) PAST
  3. ENTR (E) E
  4. BLAST
  5. ETERNA (L)
  6. AUTUMN
  7. RAIL
  8. LEMUR
  9. (E) ASIER
  10. DIMPLE
  11. CAEN
  12. OGEE
  13. MOB
  14. DILL
  15. PENNA
  16. SO (M) ALIA
  17. ERATO
  18. CAMBER
  19. MASS (E)
  20. REDWING
  21. (N) ORSE
  22. INCHOA (T) E
  23. DI (S) EASE

Clues that exchange elements:

Across Down
1 7
3 1
6 16
8 19
10 23
13 20
16 8
18 22
21 13
23 3

Clues Restored to their Original State
The clues below have been restored to their original state but with their TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS in italics.

Across
  1. Stick around city meadow
  2. Extensive group of falcons scattered
  3. Title around current pavement
  4. Put it in when pale
  5. Small, secure, slow mover
  6. Left out of mobile, evolving ecological community
  7. Writes headless, incoherent essays
  8. Bad line security
  9. Caught in trap, near breathlessness
  10. Blow up general
  11. Take off for small voyage
  12. Proper houses essential for hanging
  13. Up-to-date fashion nurse
  14. Come to rest with right roomer
  15. Get up in Paris early
  16. Position in an extraterrestrial
  17. Right out of state possession
  18. Infielders start training foundation
  19. Loose armor stays dry
  20. Tolerate small mass
  21. Aboriginal people of Burma or India
  22. Implement a St. Paul renewal
  23. Indecent Old Bailey setting
Down
  1. Mischievous children figure in most pallid overwritten manuscript
  2. Meal about over
  3. Course admittance
  4. Bugle's first and final blow
  5. Ten real changes going on forever
  6. Fall in when mutually turned around
  7. Track bird
  8. Animal 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. Gang initiating most of brawls
  14. End of bad, unhealthy herb
  15. Feather state
  16. Body holds Muhammad in African country
  17. Time to muse
  18. Room without high arch
  19. Gather energy for stroke
  20. Fly after flushed blackbird
  21. Steer cautiously around road from Oslo, maybe
  22. In school at an early stage
  23. Seaside sickness
Solvers
The following people sent in solutions before the hints were posted:

  1. Judith Bagai
  2. Bob Colonna
  3. Norman Davis
  4. Dwight Freund
  5. Max Good
  6. Tony Greanias
  7. Vicki Homer
  8. Doug Hoylman
  9. Christopher Hurt
  10. William I. Johnston
  11. Eliot Kieval
  12. Stan Kurzban
  13. Dan Milton
  14. Stephen Ness
  15. Carolyn Roosevelt
  16. Al Sanders
  17. Eric Singel
  18. Ron Sweet
  19. Eric Tentarelli
  20. Claire Trazenfeld
  21. S. Venkatraghavan

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