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 01/11/2022 11:09:22 PM 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 01/11/2022 11:10:08 PM PST by nikos1121

3 posted on 01/12/2022 12:26:36 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

4 posted on 01/12/2022 12:29:38 AM PST by nikos1121

Easy one. The first word opened it up for me. Awkward wording, though.

-PJ

5 posted on 01/12/2022 1:17:31 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

To: Political Junkie Too

Awkward wording…. Yes. But that gives you a clue that author is of a much earlier period in history.

Author speaks here of “baby steps”.

6 posted on 01/12/2022 2:21:48 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

Previous puzzle Tuesday 1/11/2022

GF FIKOH XKIV PKGL HJKH XKIYMKOHYSF OSZXZIKPL, KIA HJFI HJF MFG HJKH CYIZLJ HJFX. —KPPFI HYOQFS

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

WE ENACT MANY LAWS THAT MANUFACTURE CRIMINALS, AND THEN THE FEW THAT PUNISH THEM. —ALLEN TUCKER

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7 posted on 01/12/2022 3:50:00 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

00:47.84 A just bit off little pieces and soon finished.

8 posted on 01/12/2022 3:53:07 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

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

9 posted on 01/12/2022 3:56:05 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

10 posted on 01/12/2022 5:14:10 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

Makes me think of drinking a single malt Scotch Mist

11 posted on 01/12/2022 5:25:09 AM PST by nikos1121

Exactly what I thought of.
😀

12 posted on 01/12/2022 7:31:58 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets........Now, we are them.)

13 posted on 01/12/2022 11:28:31 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Now HE was a character!

14 posted on 01/12/2022 1:26:31 PM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)

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