Many people who have a Monday-to-Friday job refer to Wednesday as "Hump Day" because that is the day they are "over the hump" and can start looking forward to the weekend. Hump Day ("Middle of the week") is also the theme of today's Daily News crossword by Ian Livengood. Four sets of circled squares are in the shape of an arc---or, more accurately, a hump. The letters in each set are CAMEL.
Today's puzzle also included several phrases which I had not---until today---seen in a crossword: BANKALARM, SLOWBURN, SOLARPANELS, NEWMANAGEMENT, Israeli novelist AMOSOZ, Dadaism pioneer HANSARP, Khmer Rouge leader POLPOT, Canadian airline WESTJET and Obama's 2008 campaign slogan YESWECAN. And "Andy of cartoons" is CAPP. To be precise, doesn't "cartoon" refer to an animated short and not a comic strip.....or am I splitting hairs? And you all know I'm not the hair-splitter I used to be.
