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 02/19/2021 6:28:56 AM PST by nikos1121

From The Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

3 minutes good

2 minutes excellent

80 SECONDS exceptional

2 posted on 02/19/2021 6:29:49 AM PST by nikos1121 ( )

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

should BE AN EASY ONE today!

3 posted on 02/19/2021 6:30:30 AM PST by nikos1121 ( )

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

A MAN CANNOT BE COMFORTABLE WITHOUT HIS OWN APPROVAL. – MARK TWAIN

4 posted on 02/19/2021 6:39:06 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)

5 posted on 02/19/2021 6:42:52 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

2:19.44 though it should be exceptionally easy. I'm slow this morning.

6 posted on 02/19/2021 6:44:55 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)

7 posted on 02/19/2021 6:52:43 AM PST by nikos1121 ( )

Isn’t that tens of thousands?

1:30
First and fifth word give the second word.
sixth and ninth give eighth and eleventh word with a side order of the fifteenth.
By now the author is revealed....

8 posted on 02/19/2021 7:17:57 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop ("There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration” - Pompeo)

Yes, pretty easy today

9 posted on 02/19/2021 8:28:22 AM PST by southernindymom ( )

Not counting, but maybe my first time under 2 minutes

10 posted on 02/19/2021 11:11:48 AM PST by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794