Today’s Cryptogram

You can find this fun quotation puzzle, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. I challenge us with the best ones out there.

The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram).

Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated, you’ll be solving them all within a few days. If you’re stumped, take a break and return to it.

PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and how you made out.

You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram ASK THE GROUP FOR HELP!

I suggest printing these out and work them on paper. If you need a little help you can copy and paste it to Hal’s Helper below.

You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper, but I recommend that you do NOT look at the letter counter.

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

One last request. Feel free to post a fun or clever clue, the more tangential to the quotation the better, but please don’t put the actual words of the quote in the clue.

1 posted on 02/17/2021 9:14:42 AM PST by nikos1121

To: alicewonders; AloneInMass; Aria; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; capecodder; ...

From The Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

4 minutes good

3 minutes excellent

2 minutes exceptional

2 posted on 02/17/2021 9:15:39 AM PST by nikos1121 ( )

Rush has died, just when I posted the CG. I would not have done so, had I known this.

I knew he had taken a turn for the worse, and it was a matter of it happening.

Like any great artist, he worked right up to the end.

3 posted on 02/17/2021 9:22:15 AM PST by nikos1121 ( )

4 posted on 02/17/2021 9:23:20 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

5 posted on 02/17/2021 9:23:41 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)

Wow, I didnt know until I saw this. Sad and a national loss.

6 posted on 02/17/2021 9:24:17 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

7 posted on 02/17/2021 9:25:49 AM PST by JEH_Boston (Never give up.)

Nice. Rather quick. Contraction and short words, and the author…

8 posted on 02/17/2021 9:25:57 AM PST by cartan

Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

YOU WILL BECOME AS SMALL AS YOUR CONTROLLING DESIRE, AS GREAT AS YOUR DOMINANT ASPIRATION. —JAMES ALLEN

9 posted on 02/17/2021 10:12:42 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)

A wonderful human being he was, he will be greatly missed.

10 posted on 02/17/2021 5:38:18 PM PST by southernindymom ( )

11 posted on 02/17/2021 5:38:38 PM PST by southernindymom ( )

Please add me to your ping list. Thanks

12 posted on 02/17/2021 8:02:29 PM PST by barker (Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug)

A rather prolific author.

13 posted on 02/17/2021 10:06:25 PM PST by scrabblehack

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