Featured clue | 13-across: Cartoon who suffers from extreme near-sightedness, compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem
Factoid | 33-down: An emoji is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. The word comes from Japanese e (‘picture’) + moji (‘character’). The primary function of emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversation. DUH! But it is funny to think we’re reverting back to hieroglyphics in a way 😀.