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 07/21/2022 6:43:46 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

From The Arkansas Gazette

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

2 posted on 07/21/2022 6:45:20 AM PDT by nikos1121

3 posted on 07/21/2022 6:55:05 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

4 posted on 07/21/2022 7:02:36 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

5 posted on 07/21/2022 7:02:43 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

6 posted on 07/21/2022 7:04:30 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

7 posted on 07/21/2022 7:06:50 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

Yer asking for it Alice. Bang! Zoom!!

8 posted on 07/21/2022 7:09:18 AM PDT by stormhill

Ok, that last one might have gone over the line....lol

9 posted on 07/21/2022 7:09:44 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

10 posted on 07/21/2022 7:13:32 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

Only a 5 out of 10. Darn, I thought I was at least a 5 1/2 😛

11 posted on 07/21/2022 7:41:41 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

12 posted on 07/21/2022 7:48:43 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)

Any more of this and some of us might start howling.

13 posted on 07/21/2022 12:44:57 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

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