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 09/15/2022 6:53:29 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

From The Arkansas Gazette

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior

2 posted on 09/15/2022 6:54:20 AM PDT by nikos1121

This YWULFSUWHLI approves this quote!

3 posted on 09/15/2022 7:07:16 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

4 posted on 09/15/2022 7:16:20 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)

I got the puzzle pretty quick, but the author stumped me! LOL

5 posted on 09/15/2022 7:30:38 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)

Fastest time yet, but like the other poster, I found the author at large.

6 posted on 09/15/2022 7:38:58 AM PDT by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )

7 posted on 09/15/2022 8:10:01 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

The author doesn’t get the credit he deserves. His parents might as well have named him Anonymous.

8 posted on 09/15/2022 9:31:49 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protectio)

Previous puzzle Wednesday, September 14, 2022

DWEERYC JU ZWAG RL VDRA JWHO AUEVUOZUH APL, JDRMD RYYPORLWVUA WYY MHUWVPHUA. —DULHC IWSRI VDNHUWP

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

HAPPILY WE BASK IN THIS WARM SEPTEMBER SUN, WHICH ILLUMINATES ALL CREATURES. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU

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9 posted on 09/15/2022 4:12:14 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

I Duck Duck Went the quote, and the author I found doesn’t fit the Cryptogram. I’m stumped on the author.

10 posted on 09/15/2022 5:43:13 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

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