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.

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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 08/02/2022 4:28:08 AM PDT by nikos1121

To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

From The Arkansas Gazette

4 minutes good
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2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior

2 posted on 08/02/2022 4:29:36 AM PDT by nikos1121

Peculiar quote. Technically fall doesn’t begin until well into September....

3 posted on 08/02/2022 4:43:16 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

Whatever became of Mongo Jerry?

4 posted on 08/02/2022 4:52:44 AM PDT by stormhill

Not familiar with the author but did note British spelling in one of the words

5 posted on 08/02/2022 4:54:51 AM PDT by stormhill

To: nikos1121; All

What’s that supposed to mean?

6 posted on 08/02/2022 4:56:23 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)

7 posted on 08/02/2022 5:03:08 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

Sounds like loitering. Perhaps I should put it away...

8 posted on 08/02/2022 5:16:02 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

I hate to see PEYYVT end.

Love your image, Magnum!

9 posted on 08/02/2022 5:31:48 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Too dang hot here...

10 posted on 08/02/2022 5:48:41 AM PDT by nikos1121

I’m not familiar with the author - British I suppose.

11 posted on 08/02/2022 6:15:37 AM PDT by scrabblehack

Probably playing the old folks circuit in Blackpool. Good clue for anyone over 60 though!

12 posted on 08/02/2022 6:34:57 AM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)

13 posted on 08/02/2022 7:43:56 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

Yeah, still getting warmer here, peak is a month away.

14 posted on 08/02/2022 11:15:24 AM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)

Previous puzzle Monday, August 1, 2022

ESC RDMCJPDEW FX ESDP HFOONIDEW, VP RDPEDIHE VP ESC UFRCZVP FX ESC UJFIB, VP UCVNEDXNT VP ESC UTFPPFOP FX ODVOD, VIR VP NIDYNC VP ESC UJCVAXVPE EVHFP SCJC DI PVI VIEFIDF, DP WFNJ PEJCIZES. — RJ. QDTT UDRCI

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

THE DIVERSITY OF THIS COMMUNITY, AS DISTINCT AS THE BODEGAS OF THE BRONX, AS BEAUTIFUL AS THE BLOSSOMS OF MIAMI, AND AS UNIQUE AS THE BREAKFAST TACOS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, IS YOUR STRENGTH. — DR. WILL BIDEN

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15 posted on 08/02/2022 4:23:07 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

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