No one can argue that Organic Chemistry is irrelevant to everyday life.

For example, it sure helped out in the upper right corner of the Crossword in the New York Times for Sunday, September 20, 1998.

Here are the surroundings with relevant definitions. Dots indicate continuation of irrelevant words.

ACROSS

13 Blacksmith's tools
21 Lawn game
25 Be creative
29 Saw red
32 Broadly
36 1998, e.g., in fancy language

DOWN

13 Vases of a "La Boheme" character
14 _________ radical
15 Fast shuffle, so to speak
16 Sandwich base
17 Very beginning
21 Item that's often stubbed