Japanese crossword «Northern Lights»

There are puzzles, which are hard to solve, but it's fun to struggle. This one is absolutely not my type. Although the resulting picture is excellent, I hated solving this one. Used all the hints and made lots of mistakes.

This was hard one, almost gave up. But I struggled until the end and the image is great!

I feel like this would have been both prettier and easier as a colored picture.

I loved this. A great struggle, but I was able to do it without hints. A great image, creative!

Quite hard to solve, but perfectly doable with a little patience. The image is so very worth the thousand tiny steps, thank you!

What a great puzzle! Possibly the best over the 256 I have done so far. Very difficult, yet doable in less than 2 hours with no hints! Great job!

I don't think I would have known without the thumbnail. Quite good, even in black & white.

great difficulty without being tedious