Across
1. Option for some homes in the winter months
8. Sneakers with iconic checkered pattern
12. What demands your attention
14. Author of “The Tortoise and the Hare”
15. Won a debate
16. What may disrupt a friendship
17. Brooklyn art school
18. One who may speak to a witness
20. Prefix meaning fake
23. Nashville football team
24. Oberlin College & ___
27. Present somewhere
28. Main ingredient in 26-Down
29. Received
32. Old-timey slang for sleuths, or acronym relating to homeland security
33. Cry of encouragement
34. Modern expression of annoyance
35. Just ___!
36. Nickname for those who are neither capitalist or socialist
39. Character actress Shaw
40. Name of an Oberlin frisbee team
42. Gets 100 percent
45. Book in the Old Testament
46. Fantasizes about
49. Textbook ending, often
51. Alix _____, TikTok influencer
52. Ignite
55. Feminine side, according to Jungian psychology
56. “That could have been bad” moments
57. Many thrifted jeans
58. Not yet apprehended
DOWN
1. Prepare for a long viewing experience, maybe
2. College prep exams scored out of 36
3. The Shurtleff Monument on South Professor Street, e.g.
4. A.I. villain of 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Adam ___, Oberlin Computer Science professor
6. Out of the wind, in nautical terms
7. Locally focused offshoot of an educational lecture organization
8. 2018 Colleen Hoover novel
9. Yoga pose
10. Rule for when the “E” sign switches to a “W”
11. Quarrels
12. Soak (up)
13. “For our ___…”
14. Look up to
19. Smallest complete unit of an element
21. Ph.D. holders, abbr.
22. “___ ___ dead body!”
24. Appointment, Sp.
25. “Me too”
26. Sauce for falafel, maybe
29. Essential ingredient in a Shirley Temple
30. Pretty unconventional
31. Cuisine with drunken noodles
34. Informal term for impaired concentration or forgetfulness
36. Prominent peninsula in the Black Sea
37. Base of a popular non-dairy milk option
38. Abbreviations at the ends of some crossword clues
40. Church songs
41. Citizen of the Pine Tree State
42. TV show Let’s Make ___ ___
43. Phoenix ___, Oberlin Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
44. Unsettling
47. Organization that offers an alternative to AVI dining
48. Fuzzy fabric
50. Crosses (out)
53. Ohio city on the Western tip of Lake Erie: Abbr.
54. Statewide student political advocacy grp.