Here's some topical New Yorker humour
In the United Kingdom, Waldo's name is "Wally". Books often change their titles when they are republished overseas. One of my favourite examples is Alex Bellos's entertaining maths book Alex's Adventures in Numberland. On the apparent hypothesis that Americans are more familiar with Euclid (he of The Elements, all thirteen books) than Lewis Carroll, Bellos's book was re-titled Here's Looking at Euclid across the Pond, with a second hook in the nod to Casablanca.
And here's a topical clue for socially-distancing cruciverbalists:
In the United Kingdom, Waldo's name is "Wally". Books often change their titles when they are republished overseas. One of my favourite examples is Alex Bellos's entertaining maths book Alex's Adventures in Numberland. On the apparent hypothesis that Americans are more familiar with Euclid (he of The Elements, all thirteen books) than Lewis Carroll, Bellos's book was re-titled Here's Looking at Euclid across the Pond, with a second hook in the nod to Casablanca.
And here's a topical clue for socially-distancing cruciverbalists:
This pandemic emerged from a carnivorous explosion (11)
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