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Crossword	Date	Comment
Bear Breakfast	17 December 2024, 3:58	He’s left-handed.
Bear Breakfast	17 December 2024, 3:56	With a fork?
Revolver	14 December 2024, 0:36	Is this a threat?
Boat	25 November 2024, 3:46	Nice picture, fun solve.
Knight (chess)	25 November 2024, 0:52	Me too.
Knight (chess)	25 November 2024, 0:52	Only in English. In most other languages, it’s the horse: French cheval, Spanish caballo, etc. In German it’s the Springer (“jumper” or “leaper”). From Tsiridis’s name, I’m guessing he’s either Greek or Lithuanian; either way, it’s the horse (hippos or žirgas).
Cutlery	3 November 2024, 21:21	3:07
Typewriter	2 November 2024, 22:58	What’s a typewriter?
Phone	15 October 2024, 0:01	That’s not what my phone looks like!
Beet	9 October 2024, 5:41	Beets me!
Telephone	20 September 2023, 6:01	Didn’t fit in your pocket, though.
The hell out of the box	11 September 2023, 5:18	Is that really what you call it in Russian? In English it’s a jack-in-the-box.
Snail	10 September 2023, 7:08	Superb, and fun to solve without X’s.
Amanita	20 August 2023, 21:18	Trippy
House	4 July 2023, 0:28	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxTLk8gWJHg
Sheet	24 June 2023, 7:17	In Russian, “leaf” (of a tree) and “sheet” (of paper, foil, etc.) are the same word, лист.
Magician	1 June 2023, 3:19	Meddle not in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
Bat	30 May 2023, 21:18	Hitting baseballs or cricket balls
Yacht	23 May 2023, 23:27	1:01
Donkey	18 May 2023, 3:55	Asinine!
Hammer and sickle	15 May 2023, 0:20	Get that s*** out of here.
Sickle	6 May 2023, 1:42	Where’s the hammer?
Red Fox	6 March 2023, 0:35	Doesn’t look a bit like Redd Foxx!
Sailboat	20 February 2023, 7:00	Very pretty and fun to solve.
Melted Snowman	15 February 2023, 4:03	Seeing the snowman standing all alone In dusk and cold is more than he can bear. The small boy weeps to hear the wind prepare A night of gnashings and enormous moan. His tearful sight can hardly reach to where The pale-faced figure with bitumen eyes Returns him such a God-forsaken stare As outcast Adam gave to paradise. The man of snow is, nonetheless, content, Having no wish to go inside and die. Still, he is moved to see the youngster cry. Though frozen water is his element, He melts enough to drop from one soft eye A trickle of the purest rain, a tear For the child at the bright pane surrounded by Such warmth, such light, such love, and so much fear. —Richard Wilbur, “Boy at the Window”
Rolls	22 October 2022, 20:50	Doesn’t look a bit like a Silver Cloud.
Magnifying Glass	12 October 2022, 22:49	And even then . . .
Sailboat	4 September 2022, 20:49	It’s not a shadow, it’s a reflection.
Riddle	24 August 2022, 0:36	Translation: A and B were sitting on a pipe. A fell down, B was lost, who was left on the pipe? As Styusha explained, “and” in Russian is one letter, и, so и was left on the pipe. Reminds me a little bit of this (English) riddle I remember from my childhood: “Railroad crossing, look out for the cars! Can you spell that without any R’s?” Answer: T-H-A-T.
Lamp	20 July 2022, 7:29	Could just be daytime.
Fly agaric	11 June 2022, 23:07	Trippy!
Lovers in the park under a tree	7 May 2022, 21:43	Counting out all these onesies and twosies is not fun.
Hurray! Now to the Crimea.	15 April 2022, 23:46	славa украïнi!
Playing cards	25 March 2022, 6:18	Black jack!
Pattern	20 March 2022, 0:59	Love puzzles like this! I like to solve them symmetrically, same moves rotated 90° at a time.
Impossible cube	20 March 2022, 0:47	Fun solve!
Forest Path	8 January 2022, 3:53	Not easy to paint a picture this pretty on a canvas this small. This is really a superb creation.
Lamp	25 January 2021, 5:43	Lovely picture, fun solve.
Temple	27 November 2020, 23:06	I actually enjoy that, having things fall into place that way.
Pierrot et la lune	1 October 2020, 4:48	Au clair de la lune, Mon ami Pierrot, Prête-moi ta plume Pour écrire un mot. Ma chandelle est morte, Je n’ai plus de feu. Ouvre-moi ta porte Pour l’amour de Dieu! Au clair de la lune, Pierrot répondit: «Je n’ai pas de plume, «Je suis dans mon lit. «Va chez la voisine, «Je crois qu’elle y est, «Car dans la cuisine «On bat le briquet.»
The tent is set, the ear is cooked.	25 December 2019, 5:14	I don’t know if these titles make sense in Russian, but they are incomprehensible in English.
Cubes	21 November 2019, 1:54	In English we call these blocks, not cubes.
Black horse	23 October 2019, 5:49	Beautiful!
Lama	18 May 2019, 6:07	This is a llama, not a lama. The one-L lama, he’s a priest; The two-L llama, he’s a beast; And I will bet a silk pajama You’ll never see a three-L lllama.
Musical rebus (in Russian)	30 April 2019, 4:25	Please explain.
Rebus with physical quantity (in Russian)	29 April 2019, 3:48	Can somebody please explain the rebus for those of us who don’t speak Russian?
Fawn	9 April 2019, 0:48	Too much guessing! I hate puzzles that are too loose to solve deterministically. And it’s not a fawn, it’s a faun.
Tulip	6 April 2019, 9:15	Fun to solve.
Signboard	31 March 2019, 6:48	Beautiful picture, tricky and fun to solve.
Pineapple	14 February 2019, 5:48	I HATED this puzzle. Had to keep cheating and guessing over and over again. Squinting and counting little onesies and twosies is not fun.