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Crossword	Date	Comment
House	30 June 2023, 5:11	I hadn't known of Baba Yaga -- I was deprived of that bit of culture as a kid -- but you're right, that seems to be her house.
House	30 June 2023, 2:43	Mobile home?
Watering can	30 June 2023, 1:50	Well positioned, and it can substitute for a kettle or a teapot.
Battleship	29 June 2023, 22:35	You mean "age of sail" ships. It's my fault, I confused you with my ale ship, above.
Pinwheel	29 June 2023, 5:21	We're here at this site from all over the world. Translation errors are common, but usually close enough, as is this one.
Tractor	29 June 2023, 0:08	I think of it as order from chaos.
Camel	28 June 2023, 10:23	And, I should add, one of the more impressive images that I've seen lately.
Camel	28 June 2023, 10:22	... and not at all capybaric.
Camel	28 June 2023, 10:22	High & Jolly.
Tractor	28 June 2023, 9:29	He's a strange attractor, always chaotic. Mr Wonderful can explain.
Big starfish!	27 June 2023, 10:31	I've seen a lot of starfish, but never one in such a funky pose.
Big starfish!	27 June 2023, 10:30	I finished in a little over an hour, and the average time is now 13 minutes.
Big starfish!	27 June 2023, 10:28	Interesting ... I didn't use the seven until I was well past the hard part.
Piggy	27 June 2023, 5:46	I know what you mean -- bacon is mostly white space.
Tiger	27 June 2023, 5:43	About intractability, I meant creating puzzles, not solving them; specifically, adapting an image that is not solvable to make it solvable. And every class of intractable problems has instances that are solvable; it's only once you reach a certain size that they become intractable. (And as an aside, a puzzle can be called solvable if there is a unique solution -- then it can be found by trial and error over every square; this site uses a more restrictive definition -- they must be solvable by methods that the human brain can handle). I agree that a solver program should be able to provide a difficulty rating; I think you meant "as an image is being solved"; I interpret "constructed" as something different.
Capybara	27 June 2023, 5:18	It might be a capybara, or it might be the camel from https://www.nonograms.org/nonograms/i/65259, squished into a smaller frame.
Teapot	26 June 2023, 9:20	And you could very well be wrong, Rickshaw. (Note the ambidexterity, a skill that you might want to work on.)
Sphinx	26 June 2023, 9:11	A great image, and it completes a diptych with the sphinxter at https://www.nonograms.org/nonograms/i/65235.
Burglar	21 June 2023, 0:00	... wags a forked tail.
Snail	20 June 2023, 23:40	You already did.
Hockey player	18 June 2023, 7:11	Gerry Cheevers as a young man?
Frog	17 June 2023, 2:12	And well you should. But maybe this will help to clarify: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evgEJlOPoeo Anyone over 60 on this side of the Atlantic would have known exactly what they meant.
African horseman training	14 June 2023, 19:46	Most peculiar.
O is for Oasis	13 June 2023, 10:18	Out here in the colonies you all sound the same to us.
Pleased Kid	13 June 2023, 9:56	Not much in the way of pixels, you mean? It takes some thought to solve it.
Rebus - Health Council, part 1 (joke)	11 June 2023, 7:04	I don't think that's a nurse, it's a patient trying to navigate the National Health Service. 423 is her position in the queue. Boris Johnson, not a penguin. A drone, not a swallow.
Little Bear Pilot	6 June 2023, 21:43	Likewise for the pilot; flying is easy, landing is hard.
Butterfly	4 June 2023, 9:51	I spent a long time figuring out how to break out of the cocoon, but once I got that, the solution emerged gracefully.
Life	4 June 2023, 8:30	Thanks, that should have been clear. I could see only a fish with legs being lifted from the sea onto the land -- a strange mix of creation and evolution. And strange legs.
Bison	4 June 2023, 6:18	That's the most profound comment I've read this year (but for future reference: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dude).
Death sentence	4 June 2023, 6:09	... and I was worried about your sense of, um, humour.
Death sentence	4 June 2023, 6:08	Thanks likewise. I thought it was a chest x-ray.
Amulet	4 June 2023, 6:06	Indeed.
Amulet	4 June 2023, 6:05	Wasn't the absence of doping vials was his secret super-power?
Unknown	4 June 2023, 5:59	... or possibly "them".
Unknown	4 June 2023, 5:59	"She"
Charlie	4 June 2023, 5:30	Silent, and I can't read his lips.
Martin	3 June 2023, 21:47	I had never heard that name for a kingfisher before; but with that forked tail, I think it's more likely something related to a house martin (https://plantura.garden/uk/garden-birds/house-martin).
Aries	3 June 2023, 9:07	Yes, of course, that's what I meant.
Aries	2 June 2023, 9:48	There is every reason to complain, to pontificate, to boast, to rant, to make foolish comments, often on unrelated topics. That's what most of us do here.
Aries	2 June 2023, 9:46	Worse; almost but not quite symmetrical.
Sheep	1 June 2023, 9:07	Ridiculous, and very good. Excellent use of white wool.
Cat	1 June 2023, 8:28	Yes, welcome.
Cat	1 June 2023, 8:28	Yes, not bad.
A room thermometer in summer	1 June 2023, 8:25	Indeed. That was unforgivable.
Mask of the shaman	31 May 2023, 9:11	Beginners have enough to think about even while using Xs. She means: beginners to working without Xs, try this one.
Go faster!	30 May 2023, 8:32	That hat! (and that other hat!)
Birdhouse	29 May 2023, 22:22	Hundreds? That's a tiny flock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV54oa0SyMc
Cupid	29 May 2023, 8:33	What a tough one. My concentration was so intense that I felt it physically, a piercing pain in my flesh, then such a warm feeling that I thought anything was possible. And I just love this artist.
Hedgehog	28 May 2023, 10:08	---