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 09/02/2022 7:55:34 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 09/02/2022 8:00:26 AM PDT by nikos1121

3 posted on 09/02/2022 8:07:15 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

I’m not extremely familiar with the author...10 possibilities for the first letter of the surname. I think it’s bread though.

4 posted on 09/02/2022 8:13:19 AM PDT by scrabblehack

To: scrabblehack

Incorrect...thanks wikipedia

5 posted on 09/02/2022 8:19:31 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)

To: scrabblehack

Incorrect...thanks wikipedia

6 posted on 09/02/2022 8:19:31 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)

Lucille Ball always said, The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

7 posted on 09/02/2022 8:39:49 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Thanks. That helped.

8 posted on 09/02/2022 9:08:51 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

He forgot about this.

9 posted on 09/02/2022 9:10:42 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

Yep, that too…. And so much better.

10 posted on 09/02/2022 9:31:49 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

Previous puzzle Thursday, September 1, 2022

LJ’W SLMU EO OFM JE UE JPZ LVAEWWLDBZ. —KGBJ ULWMZQ

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

IT’S KIND OF FUN TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE. —WALT DISNEY

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

11 posted on 09/02/2022 11:07:13 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

12 posted on 09/02/2022 11:46:24 AM PDT by Taffini ( Mr. Pippen and Mr. Waffles do not approve and neither do I)

To: notdownwidems

That was a cryptic hint....bread = bun, not fun, or jun, or any of those 7 others.

13 posted on 09/03/2022 3:27:11 AM PDT by scrabblehack

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