ACROSS

1. IOL material

5. Spouse, e.g.

9. Sponges mild bleeding, e.g.

14. Love

15. Redact

16. Eagles nest

17. Small narrow opening

18. Former Air Optix maker

19. Respond to

20. Knighted eye treatise author

23. Eliminate from the body

24. Anti-crime org.

27. Being this may upset us

30. Tic-Tac-Toe winner

31. _____wood, Indian cinema

32. IOL formula creator Richard

36. Dueling sword

37. Greek H

38. Firm up by exercising

39. Knighted IOL creator

41. Type of chemical bond

42. Scared yell

43. Eject from public office

44. Monopoly buys

45. Syringe dose or rock group

47. Ophthalmoscope inventor

53. Saint’s bone, e.g.

56. Sheltered from the wind

57. Prefix with orbital edema

58. Create a newspaper, e.g.

59. Biped characteristic

60. Jamaican sprinter Clarke

61. Retinal venous disease

62. Addictive pills

63. In ____, coordinated

DOWN

1. Bridge or pinochle bid

2. 2051 in old Rome

3. African Muslim

4. Chagall seller, e.g.

5. Diverticulum namer

6. Aniscoria cause

7. Dalai Lama’s home

8. List lengthener

9. Unclothed

10. Ogle

11. ___ Serrata

12. ___ douloureux

13. Game, ___ , match

21. Unbecoming

22. K-conus procedure

24. All ________! Three Musketeer’s cry

25. 1990s war area

26. Iodine indicator

27. Fatter

28. Undeveloped beach characteristic

29. Office workers

32. Sound intensity unit

33. Suffix for natives or rocks

34. Negative vote

35. Tympanic membrane viewers

40. Medical school bigwig

41. Approximate eye length

43. Clean up

45. Fax predecessor

46. Poem for a funeral

47. Morning Glory, e.g.

48. Mac. edema finders

49. Complaint of a night driver with cataracts

50. Weill Cornell peds eye doc Richard

51. 1982 sci-fi movie with Jeff Bridges

52. Its deficiency may cause nyctalopia

53. Eye layer with hexagonal cells

54. Historical period

55. ___ Abner

SOLUTION

Joe Bentivegna, MD, is an ophthalmologist in private practice in Rocky Hill, Conn. His latest novel, “Respect,” is available now. You can contact him at jfbentivegna@gmail.com.