Today’s Cryptogram

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

KGA DTOX MG UGOX T ZTMPGZ MDTM NXUXJITMXF PMF PZRXLXZRXZNX XOXIK QAUK 4MD, ZGM EPMD T LTITRX GH CAZF, MTZBF, TZR FGURPXIF EDG HPUX JK PZ T FDGE GH FMIXZCMD TZR SAFNUX, JAM EPMD HTSPUK LPNZPNF EDXIX BPRF MDIGE HIPFJXXF, MDX LGMTMG FTUTR CXMF PHHK, TZR MDX HUPXF RPX HIGS DTLLPZXFF. MDTM’F LTMIPGMPFS. — XIST JGSJXNB

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

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.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Enjoy today’s Cryptogram and have a fun Independence Day.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Solution to previous puzzle: Sunday July 3 (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

God bless America, land that I loveStand beside her and guide her Through the night with the light from above. From the mountains to the prairies To the oceans white with foam God bless America, my home sweet home. — Irving Berlin

[ArtDodger]

She had some great columns and lines. This was one of them.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Ew, there’s a obvious tell in there that gives the whole thing away, but it’s a great message.

[Baldwin77]

[DEPcom]

Clue: Plutarch

[Magnum44]

[gitmo]

[enumerated]

P EPUU FXTIX NXUXJITMXPNC PZRXLXZRXZNX RTK TCTPZ ZXVM MPSX EX DTOX TZ DGZXFM XUXNMPGZ.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

I solved your cryptic message and here is my answer…..

I’m not sure that I “celebrated“ today as much as I “remembered” what we once had and honored that memory and prayed that God will have mercy on us and help us heal our country …. (and have an honest election again).

[enumerated]

Sounds good to me :-)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Tuesday, July 4, 2023

KGA DTOX MG UGOX T ZTMPGZ MDTM NXUXJITMXF PMF PZRXLXZRXZNX XOXIK QAUK 4MD, ZGM EPMD T LTITRX GH CAZF, MTZBF, TZR FGURPXIF EDG HPUX JK PZ T FDGE GH FMIXZCMD TZR SAFNUX, JAM EPMD HTSPUK LPNZPNF EDXIX BPRF MDIGE HIPFJXXF, MDX LGMTMG FTUTR CXMF PHHK, TZR MDX HUPXF RPX HIGS DTLLPZXFF. MDTM’F LTMIPGMPFS. — XIST JGSJXNB

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

YOU HAVE TO LOVE A NATION THAT CELEBRATES ITS INDEPENDENCE EVERY JULY 4TH, NOT WITH A PARADE OF GUNS, TANKS, AND SOLDIERS WHO FILE BY IN A SHOW OF STRENGTH AND MUSCLE, BUT WITH FAMILY PICNICS WHERE KIDS THROW FRISBEES, THE POTATO SALAD GETS IFFY, AND THE FLIES DIE FROM HAPPINESS. THAT’S PATRIOTISM. — ERMA BOMBECK

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