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 07/10/2023 2:48:00 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy

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

Enjoy today’s Cryptogram and have a MARVELOUS MONDAY.

2 posted on 07/10/2023 2:49:34 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

3 posted on 07/10/2023 2:50:45 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Previous puzzle Saturday, July 8, 2023

Z YZU YQON CPXCHPAL CZL NVH GEBBAHP. EU YL SZOH EN OX VZCCHUHB NVZN Z TVXAH OLYCVXUL XPSVHONPZ VZB NX WH OQWOEBEIHB. — FXVU WZPPLYXPH

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

"A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized." — John Barrymore

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

4 posted on 07/10/2023 3:20:41 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Previous puzzle Saturday, July 8, 2023

Z YZU YQON CPXCHPAL CZL NVH GEBBAHP. EU YL SZOH EN OX VZCCHUHB NVZN Z TVXAH OLYCVXUL XPSVHONPZ VZB NX WH OQWOEBEIHB. — FXVU WZPPLYXPH

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

"A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized." — John Barrymore

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

5 posted on 07/10/2023 3:28:06 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

6 posted on 07/10/2023 3:38:59 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Do this and the IRS will beat a path to your door.

7 posted on 07/10/2023 4:03:30 AM PDT by ArtDodger

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

It’s all about the last word. Ask any government.

8 posted on 07/10/2023 4:15:06 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

9 posted on 07/10/2023 5:49:14 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

10 posted on 07/10/2023 6:47:45 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

11 posted on 07/10/2023 6:59:12 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Especially if you don’t have enough DEI points.

12 posted on 07/10/2023 4:16:49 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

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