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Crossword	Date	Comment
Boy plays with a typewriter	24 March 2023, 23:10	Enjoyable puzzle. I admit to finding the title somewhat confusing.
Old chief	4 February 2023, 18:04	Bit of an ethnic stereotype, but enjoyable as a puzzle
Now sing alone. I can't sing to myself	15 December 2022, 4:24	With this one, as well as another about lying while sitting, I feel like I'm missing some necessary cultural context... But I enjoyed the puzzle!
Based on the fairy tale "Little Muk"	5 November 2022, 13:00	Extremely enjoyable
Goku	31 October 2022, 13:46	Extremely enjoyable (even though I don't watch the show)
1-2-taken, still taken!	18 October 2022, 22:42	I have no idea what this picture means, but I generally enjoyed the puzzle (which is the important part)
Animal Ministry of Emergency Situations	29 September 2022, 13:14	I enjoyed solving it, personally. I also have no clue what the piture is or means and the title doesn't help, but I enjoyed solving it.
At the fence	11 May 2022, 12:29	Very, very enjoyable
The Queen of flowers	27 April 2022, 4:02	Fabulous. I loved watching the picture emerge.
Fishing	11 April 2022, 16:07	Very enjoyable. A nice mix of interesting bits throughout the image with no repetitive or dead zones.
Jeanna Friske	23 March 2022, 2:08	A Russian actor that I (an American) actually recognize! I love the Night Watch and Day Watch movies (and the books). I hadn't known that she had passed. That is very sad.
Heart with roses	21 March 2022, 9:52	Extremely hard without guesses or hints, which is not a criticism at all, just an observation and might be useful to people considering whether to work on this one. I enjoyed it, but I am happy to use a few guesses or hints if I feel like it.
Tree	21 February 2022, 18:09	Mostly not that difficult, but very, very fun to complete. Really great. And the picture is beautiful.
De Bussy	21 February 2022, 4:39	Now I have to put that album on and hear the whole thing again :-)
De Bussy	21 February 2022, 4:38	From the hair, I first thought it was going to be James Brown, then the eyes made me think Beethoven. I had never thought of their hair as similar, but I guess it actually is. When the facial hair came in I thought of Anthony Ainley (from 1970s Dr Who), but that was highly unlikely.
Squirrel	12 February 2022, 0:41	When it was half done, my girlfriend asked, "Why is there an acorn growing out of that dog's butt?" Makes a lot more sense when it's finished :-)
Dragon	4 February 2022, 3:07	Very, very tough at first. Once you get it going, it goes quite easily. And a very nice picture as a result.
Mom and daughter	2 February 2022, 2:52	Very enjoyable to solve
In a moment of rest	12 January 2022, 13:50	I enjoyed it. I can see it being a bit fiddly for some, either too much whitespace or too many small increments that are basically things to do, rather than new problems to solve, but as for me, I enjoyed it.
Heraldic lion	7 January 2022, 5:12	Fabulous. Very enjoyable!
Nymph	4 January 2022, 3:26	I really enjoyed this one
Lancer	30 December 2021, 20:10	I do not understand what this picture is, but it is terrifying Very fun puzzle!
King of Hearts	24 December 2021, 7:52	I like this one a lot. I could tell it was a face card, even a king, but was surprised to see the heart appear. Where I come from, the king of hearts is usually (but not always) depicted holding his sword cross-wise behind his head, with the appearance that he has stabbed himself giving rise to the appellation "the suicide king." I particularly like the way the chains of office and the orb/scepter/censure work given the relatively low resolution the image size allows.
Leo (astrology)	23 December 2021, 2:54	Working bottom-to-top, at first I was asking myself, "Why does this picture have a pair of handcuffs and the letters LED?" :-)
Surfer	21 December 2021, 18:25	Surprisingly difficult for its size!
Soviet soldier is drinking water from a helmet	21 December 2021, 17:35	Great puzzle and great picture. I can't see a helmet when I look at it; instead it looks like a mug or stein to me, but I'm not familiar with soviet-era helmets enough to be sure. I really love the shading on the jacket, particularly on the left arm.
Cinderella	20 December 2021, 4:01	It's always amusing how wildly the mind interprets these when only part-way done. For most of it I actually thought it was a star-nosed mole working an old adding machine (the kind with a lever for "equals"). (I didn't tag this as a spoiler because I don't think "it isn't a star-nosed mole working a calculator" is really all that much of a spoiler. I apologize if anyone thinks I should have.)
Lovers	17 December 2021, 2:45	Really great image. Her face is especially lovely. My brain is having some problems resolving the perspective. To me it looks like her left side is passing behind his left side, yet his right hand is on her left shoulder and their faces are at the same depth. I may just be too tired to make sense of it.
Shepherd Dog	13 December 2021, 11:53	Fabulous. Great puzzle and very creative picture.
Gladiator	12 December 2021, 3:05	I can see the "cat" in the breastplate. That's hilarious :-)
Kerchief	16 November 2021, 17:16	Very satisfying!
Snail family	12 November 2021, 2:48	Utterly adorable
Clint Eastwood	11 November 2021, 4:13	I wanted to rate this picture Excellent, but it is definitively the "Good," as opposed to "the bad" or "the ugly."
Frog	9 November 2021, 11:06	Adorable!
Kinkajou	20 October 2021, 0:54	I was hoping this particular primate would appear in this series of primate-themed puzzles. They are always adorable. Great puzzle, btw, as always!
Dyudyuk	9 October 2021, 0:54	I do not understand the picture, but I enjoyed the puzzle
Shih tzu	7 October 2021, 2:28	Very (enjoyably) hard. At the end I can see it as several things, like an inkblot test almost. I definitely do see the intended image, though.
Kvartet I	26 May 2020, 4:00	Russian theater group from the 90s that also makes movies. Very fun puzzle, too.
Lighthouse	11 February 2020, 13:06	Easily one of the all-time best. Very enjoyable!
Young Khazar Khan Ratmir	10 February 2020, 4:50	Very, very enjoyable and a wonderful picture!
The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish	1 February 2020, 0:26	I enjoyed this one immensely
Fish in whorls	10 January 2020, 4:06	Well, that took some doing. Very enjoyable!
Dog in the city	29 December 2019, 0:51	Very enjoyable!
Centaur	7 November 2019, 23:53	As always, a fabulously enjoyable nonogram. Thank you for all of the effort and the quality, Tverianka! [spoiler]Also, what is it holding? A whip? A torch? Flaming sword? Any ideas?[/spoiler]
Sirin	21 October 2019, 20:41	My favorite nonogram so far. Gorgeous picture and wonderfully difficult without being frustrating. I savored it over several days.
Chicks	7 October 2019, 20:26	Absolutely wonderful. A challenging joy throughout.
Minnie Mouse	2 September 2019, 23:52	Very fun and much faster for me than your usual. A nice change now and then!
The lady in the hat	24 August 2019, 0:14	Very enjoyable. [spoiler] Final image reminds me of the Old Woman/Young Woman illusion. [/spoiler]
Fly	21 August 2019, 22:53	Insanely, wonderfully difficult. Thank you!
Sleeping cat	14 August 2019, 21:22	[spoiler]To me, it's one of those pictures that can be two things. I see the sleeping cat, and I also see a man with a monocle looking to the left. The ears of the cat are also the eye and nose of the man. If you still don't see the cat, it may help to know that it's a calico. The two irregular ovalish spots in the middle are darker marking on its left rear leg. It's head it tucked in the upper left against the same let's knee. Our cats (also calicos) sleep like that often. [/spoiler] I enjoyed this one quite a bit after doing several of the same creator's more difficult ones in a row.