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 09/08/2022 5:32:13 AM PDT 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 09/08/2022 5:32:52 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

3 posted on 09/08/2022 5:34:44 AM PDT by nikos1121

4 posted on 09/08/2022 5:34:50 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

To: nikos1121; All

Under 2 minutes; once I recognized the eighth word it all became clear; the quotation, however, is less clear.

5 posted on 09/08/2022 5:38:23 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)

Good morning,

Check your private reply....

6 posted on 09/08/2022 5:47:51 AM PDT by nikos1121

7 posted on 09/08/2022 5:54:05 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

8 posted on 09/08/2022 5:57:20 AM PDT by nikos1121

Ok, I get it. Good one....

9 posted on 09/08/2022 5:57:41 AM PDT by nikos1121

Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?

10 posted on 09/08/2022 5:58:54 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

11 posted on 09/08/2022 6:19:37 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)

To: notdownwidems

In addition to being quiet you have to be as small as a cat.

12 posted on 09/08/2022 6:26:58 AM PDT by scrabblehack

To: notdownwidems; nikos1121

I LOVE this quote! It comes from the Irish author’s classic book “Solomon in all his glory.” It’s in the first very short chapter You can read it online here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t8kd24h4g&view=1up&seq=1

Just scroll down to where chapter 1 starts.

13 posted on 09/08/2022 7:43:53 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

The sign said the words of the prophets are written on subway walls.

14 posted on 09/08/2022 2:07:58 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

Previous puzzle Wednesday, September 7, 2022

XW, VPUHPGDPB! FKS XBP HWP CKKBAXF HK HWP VPXVKQ HWXH XAXNPQV GF VKSO. —UPEEF HKQPF WKBHKQ

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

AH, SEPTEMBER! YOU ARE THE DOORWAY TO THE SEASON THAT AWAKENS MY SOUL. —PEGGY TONEY HORTON

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15 posted on 09/09/2022 3:03:30 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

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