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Crossword Puzzle:

Sequence Events

by Charles Deber

In this puzzle, the bolded clues represent PDB IDs (click on link or search at rcsb.org) and Molecule of the Month articles (MotM; click on link or use MotM index at pdb101.rcsb.org)

Answers

ACROSS
1	Tempted by a trap
6	Add alcohol to, as punch
11	Take needle and thread
14	Letters before an alias
17	Dutch island
18	Volumes
19	111, to Caesar
20	Live performance
21	2rh1 (MotM April ’08) and 1su4 (MotM April ’04)
24	Suffix with hex- or oct-
25	Certain hound
26	Perfect score, sometimes
27	Aware of
28	Word before Juan or Diego
29	Become overripe
31	Bring charges against
32	Rt.-hand person
33	Expressions of surprise
37	Rainbow shape
38	1igt and 1hzh (MotM September ’01)
41	He’s often down in the mouth
43	Certain elevator company
44	Barely manage
45	City planners do it
46	Walked upon
47	Precipitation gear
51	Units of 12 mos.
52	1aon (MotM August ’02)
54	One less than even
55	Notre ___, Indiana school
57	One of the Three Stooges
58	Astonishment
59	Male sibs
60	Travel option: Abbr.
61	2bg9 (MotM November '05) and 3loh (MotM February ’15)
65	Limb with a hand
66	Actress Alba
68	Top-notch

69	Old vacuum tube type
72	Duke sports grp
73	Years, in the Yucatan
74	Popular Italian wine
75	1bl8 (MotM February ’03)
79	Leave a mark
80	Loch with a monster, maybe
81	Star ___
82	Electric sea creature
83	Worth
85	"Patience ___ virtue"
86	Edison’s middle name
88	Abel, to Adam
89	Roadway
94	Take a chair
95	WHAT YOU’RE NOW DOING
98	Boston dir. from N.Y.
99	A Kennedy
100	Appearing more anemic
101	Guadalajara girlfriend
102	Ontario’s Cap.
103	Savings plan, for short
104	Having knowledge
105	More affable
DOWN
1	Little ewe
2	Nitrogen compound
3	Specialty liquors from Jamaica
4	Decreases slowly
5	Has the courage
6	Penn. in N.Y.C.
7	Word before license or justice
8	Urge to act
9	"Showboat" composer Jerome
10	"___ Beso": Paul Anka tune
11	First part of a play, in Shakespeare’s day
12	Way out
13	Overindulger into the grapes
14	Tennis star Andre

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15	1opl (MotM July ’03)
16	Ballplayers’ representatives
22	1e79 (MotM December '05)
23	Speaks highly of
30	Scrap of food
31	Mocking
32	Mideast’s Gulf of ___, near Yemen
33	Eastern bloc state, after W.W. II
34	Big Foot’s shoe size, maybe
35	5rsa (MotM September ’08) and 5pep (MotM December ’00)
36	Keep for future use
38	At the peak
39	He was played by Pitt in "Moneyball"
40	Merle Haggard’s "___ from Muskogee"
42	Those with connections
43	"....good witch ___ bad witch?": Glinda’s "Oz" question
46	Prayer pronoun
47	Moves the oars
48	4ins (MotM February ’01)
49	"Much ___ about Nothing"
50	QBs’ objectives
52	___ Cola
53	Uncommon
55	N.B.A.’s Erving, to fans
56	Had a meal
57	Pilgrimage destination
59	"Life of ___": Monty Python film

61	Well-off financially
62	Expert group
63	Handyman’s necessity
64	Certain switch settings
65	Ben Canaan, of "Exodus"
67	Dismiss unceremoniously, as an employee
69	Rocket engine force
70	Initial affliction for 13 Down, maybe
71	Frozen wasser
73	Lend ___ (listen)
74	___ Tech, Pasadena
75	"Say ___ so!"
76	Viola’s love, in "Twelfth Night"
77	More kempt
78	Reno’s state
79	Bearing
83	"And there you have it!", to a Parisian
84	Director Coen
86	___ Spumante
87	Uninviting look
88	"Pygmalion" playwright
90	Two notes that follow "do"
91	Huge in scope
92	Move forward slowly
93	Ski lift feature
96	Tax expert, briefly
97	Test for an M.A. applicant

Charles Deber is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto, and Senior Scientist in the Research Institute at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. When not researching proteins, his hobbies include constructing crossword puzzles, many of which have been published in the New York Times and other newspapers. The author thanks RCSB PDB’s Stephen Burley and David Goodsell for inspiration and input for this puzzle.