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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 06/22/2022 2:55:03 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

The quote is only part of A full sentence.

This is the beginning of the quote:

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, (PLACE TODAY’S CRYPTOGRAM SOLUTION HERE).

From The Arkansas Gazette

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


2 posted on 06/22/2022 2:58:49 AM PDT by nikos1121
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Ain’t no cure for it, Zelda.


8 posted on 06/22/2022 3:47:52 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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It might explain my fondness for global warming


9 posted on 06/22/2022 4:00:34 AM PDT by stormhill
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...under 3 minutes, the third word indeed opened it up.


10 posted on 06/22/2022 5:25:09 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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12 posted on 06/22/2022 6:12:53 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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Sounds like an east coast sort of thing, where I guess the author was based. Never read any of the stuff, being a knuckledragger.


16 posted on 06/22/2022 11:24:46 AM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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