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 02/12/2021 3:25:46 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 02/12/2021 3:27:18 AM PST by nikos1121 ( )

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

I DRESS TO KILL, BUT TASTEFULLY --- FREDDIE MERCURY

3 posted on 02/12/2021 4:06:57 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)

4 posted on 02/12/2021 4:24:46 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

5 posted on 02/12/2021 4:32:30 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

6 posted on 02/12/2021 4:40:12 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

3:20.33 Time well spent, imho.

7 posted on 02/12/2021 4:42:03 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)

Rather quick, except for the author’s middle name, starting with common letter and the contraction…

8 posted on 02/12/2021 5:15:00 AM PST by cartan

For me, words one, four then guess at word 5

9 posted on 02/12/2021 6:00:59 AM PST by Steven Tyler

That one cracks me up. Is that from some show? (or so it appears)

10 posted on 02/21/2021 2:01:47 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)

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