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 12/15/2021 5:30:45 AM PST by nikos1121

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

From The Arkansas Gazette

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

2 posted on 12/15/2021 5:32:32 AM PST by nikos1121

Word 9 with the double letter was a easy guess which opened up all the rest.

3 posted on 12/15/2021 5:39:31 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

4 posted on 12/15/2021 5:42:41 AM PST by ArtDodger

CLUE: Have tenacity And you can solve it.

5 posted on 12/15/2021 5:43:27 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

6 posted on 12/15/2021 6:41:01 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

About three minutes. I started with the one-letter word and the most common letter. I fumbled a bit with the first word but quickly got it. That gave me enough clues to get the first name of the author, and that opened up the rest of the puzzle.

-PJ

7 posted on 12/15/2021 9:44:06 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

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

Previous puzzle Tuesday 12/14/2021

VMTX IHC OHY’X BNN VRXM IHCA NINB, OHY’X VRXYNBB VRXM IHCA LHCXM. —IROORBM UAHENAZ

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

WHAT YOU DON’T SEE WITH YOUR EYES, DON’T WITNESS WITH YOUR MOUTH. —YIDDISH PROVERB

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8 posted on 12/15/2021 4:38:18 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

2:05.40 I was up north today, and will be tomorrow. If you post before 06:30 Eastern Time, I can post today’s solution in the morning.

9 posted on 12/15/2021 4:42:51 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

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