‘eye pieces’

BY SAM BUCHBINDER

ACROSS

1 Greyhound vehicle

4 Fruits used in chewy cookies 8 Deals with adversity

13 Soprano, ___, tenor and bass 15 “haha can u believe that?!” 16 Put up with

17 Head of the class

19 Turn yellow, like a banana 20 Bert’s buddy

21 Like a noble gas

23 “Rear” or “dead” follower 24 States split and founded in 1889 26 “Talked” in the cow barn

28 One is tall and attractive 32 Tampa neighbor, informally 35 Entirely

36 Part of an important sequence 37 Drop the ball

38 Letters describing many kits 39 Good card in poker

40 Some summer babies

42 Room for lounging

43 Moved like a nomad 46 One framework for analyzing gender

roles

49 Sag

50 Lets off the hook

54 Place for a facial

56 “___ Wilson” (1992 Barenaked

Ladies song)

58 Related to hearing

59 Backyard grill site

61 Crunchy holder for ice cream 63 Each

64 Soul singer James

65 Gigantic

66 Spots for students and teachers 67 Qatar’s capital

68 Mark before “com”

DOWN

1 Headquartered (in)

2 Super: Prefix

3 Deserved one star

4 Target of a yearly shot

5 Like Dennis the Menace

6 Alternative to Tide

7 Proper way to swear? 8 27-Down holder

9 ___-Wan Kenobi

10 Wishful fantasy

11 Genesis setting

12 Gmail button

14 Bird on Cal Ripken Jr.’s cap 18 ___ four (small cake)

22 Muddy up

25 What may improve whiskey 27 Quiche ingredient

29 Damage, as a reputation 30 Fairy-tale beginning 31 Monopoly card

32 Egotist’s focus

33 Kite flyer’s hazard

34 Senior partners, say?

38 Hated

41 Title for Elton John

42 Gucci rival

43 Name fit for a king?

44 Like some headphones

45 To the same degree 47 Gendered sign on a clubhouse 48 12 inches, for many a ruler 51 Not ashamed

52 Dance banned by Pope Pius X 53 Messy winter forecast 54 Risked a ticket on the freeway 55 Surface, as a road

57 Prefix for “pilot”

60 Annoy

62 Triptik org.