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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.

=====Note from Froggy:=====

This crypto is dedicated to ApplePanDowdy who kept encouraging me. And thanks to Lonesome in MA and Nikos for technical help.

Hope I did it right. =====

If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.

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1 posted on 07/21/2023 3:47:45 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim

To: FroggyTheGremlim

2 posted on 07/21/2023 3:55:23 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

I love the cryptogram you posted today. (hint: just Get the contraction right and the rest falls into place, especially seeing the question mark at the end)

3 posted on 07/21/2023 4:02:27 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

4 posted on 07/21/2023 4:09:49 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

Wow, I just beat my old record, read that in about ten seconds!

6 posted on 07/21/2023 5:18:58 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( Supporting member of the WHINO party. Keep on whinin'!)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

7 posted on 07/21/2023 5:26:34 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

To: FroggyTheGremlim

No ping this morning?

8 posted on 07/21/2023 5:41:57 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

To: FroggyTheGremlim

I never knew the last name.

9 posted on 07/21/2023 6:49:41 AM PDT by occamrzr06

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

If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.

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Because I missed the fact that there was no ping today, I posted yesterday’s solution at the end of yesterday’s puzzle, if you are looking for it. My apologies.

10 posted on 07/21/2023 2:39:23 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

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