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 09/20/2023 3:15:04 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

From The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

2 posted on 09/20/2023 3:16:06 AM PDT by nikos1121

It might try, but I will remember!!!!! 🌻🌞🌞🌞🌻

3 posted on 09/20/2023 4:29:35 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

I might have the author’s last name. I dunno. As for the rest...

4 posted on 09/20/2023 4:30:07 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

it seems like there is a typo?

5 posted on 09/20/2023 5:17:33 AM PDT by uranium penguin

Are you sure there isn’t a little mistake in the quote?

(asking for a friend)

6 posted on 09/20/2023 5:18:39 AM PDT by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Music)

Great Clue! I applied the clue and completed the puzzle. Thanks.

7 posted on 09/20/2023 5:21:57 AM PDT by vaskypilot

To: uranium penguin

I finally solved it. Didn’t see a typo.

8 posted on 09/20/2023 5:22:11 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

9 posted on 09/20/2023 5:40:35 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

K vs V..

I was wrong-ish

10 posted on 09/20/2023 5:49:28 AM PDT by uranium penguin

It seems to me that B and G map to the same letter.

11 posted on 09/20/2023 10:01:37 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

Previous puzzle Tuesday, September 19, 2023

INB ECZ'Y IJOK FU XKCEK CZB LCXXJZKUU CXCHY MHNV LJVUKPM SKECFUK YLKHK JU ZN UFEL YLJZI. — E. U. PKRJU

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

GOD CAN'T GIVE US PEACE AND HAPPINESS APART FROM HIMSELF BECAUSE THERE IS NO SUCH THING. — C. S. LEWIS

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12 posted on 09/20/2023 3:25:28 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

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