Today’s Cryptogram

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

(LGNZ ONFGZI, XNJMVL-CTCR). FZSC GYFZ O LJQC J KOR EOPPJZM JZ PFDC, XGL ZFK J'Q FZPT EOPPJZM OYONL.
ZFLVJZM J SOZ IF.
O LFLOP CSPJYRC FE LVC VCONL.
FZSC GYFZ O LJQC LVCNC KOR PJMVL JZ QT PJEC,
XGL ZFK LVCNC'R FZPT PFDC JZ LVC IONH.
ZFLVJZM J SOZ ROT,
O LFLOP CSPJYRC FE LVC VCONL. — XFZZJC LTPCN

[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.

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.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Enjoy today’s cryptogram.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[Apparatchik]

Hate that song.

[BlueLancer]

[Political Junkie Too]

-PJ

[ComputerGuy]

Is it a heartache or just indigestion?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle, Sunday, April 7, 2024

ZJBRLZY, ORFS YBJPY, JPS SZBRBOSE BL SAORXYS. JOO RY CSOO, XPLQRESE BWS ORVWB PSBNPZY JZE BWS SAORXYS ELSY ZLB HSALIS SZEOSYY ZRVWB. EJCZ JZE PSYNPPSABRLZ JPS YGZLZGILNY. BWS PSJXXSJPJZAS LK BWS ORVWB RY BWS YJIS JY BWS YNPQRQJO LK BWS YLNO. - QRABLP WNVL

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

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. - Victor Hugo

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Well I hear you went up to Saratoga
And your horse naturally won
Then you flew your Lear Jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun
Your so vain, you probably think this post is about you.

There were two total eclipses visible from Nova Scotia in the 1970’s, the second one a few months before the release this song. But the first one was on March 7, 1970, and the other on July 10,1972. The spring eclipse was too early for the racing season in Saratoga, and even the 1972 eclipse was on July 10th occurred three weeks before the racing season opened.

There was a remote patch on Nova Scotia where the paths of totality crossed, and two total eclipses were visible within slightly more than 26 months of each other. Since any point on earth experiences a total eclipse about once every 225 years, this was unusual to say the least. Southern Illinois was on the path of totality in 2017, and will be again today.

Enjoy!

[A_perfect_lady]

Is it a heartache or just indigestion?

I always thought it was about depression.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Get the two single-letter words first and it falls into place in a minute.

[Magnum44]

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Oh, I totally agree that it’s an awful song …… I just like the title.

[gitmo]

That’s a downer.

[Apparatchik]

I just like the title.

Then you would love this book…

[manna]

Thanks.