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Crossword	Date	Comment
Film	15 November 2022, 7:44	Because it was the wild, untamed western side of the continent.
Night in the mountains	15 November 2022, 3:16	Lovely.
Manatee	14 November 2022, 20:25	For a long time it looked that way.
Woman	14 November 2022, 18:48	Apologies. Apparently R2-D2 is also used now. Back in my day, when Chapter IV was brand new, it was always Artoo Detoo and See Threepio.
Woman	14 November 2022, 18:41	Toss up at the beginning whether it would be a woman or Artoo Detoo.
Woman	14 November 2022, 18:41	You mean Artoo Detoo. (Their names are always spelled out.) (Might be DeeToo. I should look it up.)
More wine	14 November 2022, 5:55	Even at the end I thought that.
Face	12 November 2022, 21:12	Excellent and unexpected. I was working on a squirrel looking up at an oak tree, but the squirrel kept getting stranger and stranger. Still, I was so fixated on that image that I didn't see the result until I read the title.
Panda	12 November 2022, 21:02	It was a clown from early on until the last minute.
Baking	12 November 2022, 19:56	Silly--you bake with flour, not flower... Have there been an awful lot of checkerboard puzzles lately, or am I just going loopy?
Sunset	12 November 2022, 0:51	I was thinking an overflowing bucket of popcorn.
Sunset	12 November 2022, 0:50	Different site: on the shoreline in Havana, near the Russian Embassy. (How does one get a picture in these comments?)
Sunset	12 November 2022, 0:35	But I used the same site, put in the location "Havana, Cuba", and got 23N and 82W (with some fractions on each), so something weird is going on.
Sunset	12 November 2022, 0:32	I get the same results TNG did.
Butterfly	11 November 2022, 22:40	It really ought to be called a flutterby. After all, a fly can't butter and butter can't fly, but these lovelies flutter by.
Rose	11 November 2022, 9:32	It's a lion. It's a lion. It's a lion. It's ... not a lion.
Cake	10 November 2022, 23:03	In England, many desserts (including cake (or "gateau")) may come with a pitcher of custard--something like a cross between what we Yanks call custard and heavy cream. You know the damage you're doing to your arteries, but you pour it on regardless. But I haven't been in England for maybe 20 years, so the custom may have changed.
Hot Dog	10 November 2022, 22:22	It was definitely an escalator. Until it wasn't.
Dot	10 November 2022, 3:17	I had to stop and count them. And my first take was something even naughtier.
Dragon	9 November 2022, 0:31	This may be the scariest one of this subject I've seen. Nice work!
Unicorn	8 November 2022, 21:12	That's some wild mane!
Foot on Pointe	7 November 2022, 20:32	I needed the title, but given that this is a fantastic representation! Excellent job, mindscrub.
Plesiosaur	6 November 2022, 21:57	Same here.
Jukebox	5 November 2022, 19:54	Long before I had enough done to realistically identify the picture I knew what it was because of the comment conversation in Mindscrub's earlier puzzle. Well done!
Barrel	5 November 2022, 19:38	Luka popped up immediately. As to what he was up to... Anything is possible for Luka! I had to finish the puzzle to find out, and even needed the title to identify the circle. On his way to a kegger, I guess.
Lifeboat	5 November 2022, 6:52	Having discarded the conviction that it was a jukebox, I took the oar to be the handle of an old-fashioned slot machine. Wrong again!
Lifeboat	5 November 2022, 6:50	That's what the shape said to me.
Brush and Palette	4 November 2022, 20:26	Nah. I like the crunch.
Cloud	4 November 2022, 20:16	When I was in the (US) Navy, I worked briefly for a (Royal) Navy officer. One day I was typing a letter in which he'd mentioned both Pearl Harbor and Pearl Harbour. I went to him and said, "I can spell American and I can spell English, but I think you should be consistent." He looked all flustered and asked me who he was writing to. I can't remember now (it's been 50 years) whether it was USN or RN, but he just told me to make the spelling appropriate to the recipient.
Parachute	4 November 2022, 20:09	Yes--dancing what I hadn't decided, but definitely dancing.
Circular Saw	4 November 2022, 17:57	The bottom two rows were so clearly feet that I wasted a deal of invective on people who create puzzles based on characters from obscure (= I never played them) video games.
Pogo stick	4 November 2022, 7:52	I thought he bought them for her because she liked them so much.
Uncle Luka! Why the disguise? I'll try it!	3 November 2022, 5:38	See my response to Krande below.
Uncle Luka! Why the disguise? I'll try it!	3 November 2022, 5:38	They only exist in nonograms. Luka has been around quite a while, courtesy of yec72; Stacey is a relative newcomer introduced by mindscrub. Luka has had just about every conceivable job and participated in every conceivable sport, and occasionally interacts with his granny. He can always be recognized by his boots and his hat (4 pixels over 5) although Stacey seems to have appropriated them here.
Paint Roller	2 November 2022, 4:14	So absolutely convinced it was something electrical, either diagram or appliance, that I completely failed to identify it.
Jester mask	19 September 2022, 6:07	I said, "Well, it's a tulip, but it looks more like a mask." I astonish myself.
Puppy	19 September 2022, 6:02	I couldn't see it, until I stopped trying to see it facing in the opposite direction.
White Dog	19 September 2022, 5:27	If you ignore the black squares, what's left?
Sight	19 September 2022, 1:18	I keep seeing a little face in the middle.
Hammer and nail	19 September 2022, 0:15	That would be when the moon is in the second house?
Floppy disk	18 September 2022, 1:53	disk
Floppy disk	18 September 2022, 1:53	Yeah, I remember floppy "floppy" discs. I also remember when, if you wanted a floppy disc, you'd need to cut a circle out of a piece of paper.
Bat	17 September 2022, 23:57	I'm impressed that you can determine the sexuality of a pixellated bat.
Wheelbarrow	17 September 2022, 1:21	I saw the author and said, "Yay, Luka!"
Stroller	17 September 2022, 1:09	Very well done!
Viola tricolor	15 September 2022, 16:14	In fact, including pansies.
Bottle	14 September 2022, 2:45	Oh yes! I was mistaking the nipple for a flame, and it just didn't make sense.
Puppy	13 September 2022, 3:31	The brown and the green are much too close. Yes, I can tell them apart--if I lean in close and strain my eyes. And I find all this does not add to the beauty of the result. It just gives me a headache. Literally.
Sewing machine	12 September 2022, 19:19	I almost missed the white space towards the upper right. Nicely done.
Ice cream in a croissant	11 September 2022, 20:30	I never ran across compote with this sense. Regional differences, I imagine. I would call it a sundae dish. (Although, as I worked from the bottom up, I was certain it was a cocktail glass.)