Today’s Cryptogram

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

CLB SZIR RPZGH SNHK Z SLNIKZXI PWXHK UPELGP XK XH BZHCPQ KL KCP HPZ? ZIQ CLB SZIR RPZGH TZI HLSP JPLJYP PWXHK UPELGP KCPR'GP ZYYLBPQ KL UP EGPP? RPH, ZIQ CLB SZIR KXSPH TZI Z SZI KNGI CXH CPZQ ZIQ JGPKPIQ KCZK CP FNHK QLPHI'K HPP? KCP ZIHBPG, SR EGXPIQ, XH UYLBXI' XI KCP BXIQ …. — ULU QRYZI

[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 cryptogr)am).

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

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[SaveFerris]

That was a long time ago but I was hearing the trio

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle, Sunday June 16, 2024

Y NALLNU CUDNUVL KYS ZPUUB KAFVIAUX ...
XQP HYCL QX Y CYAN, LIU FIQU HYF NQFL;
XQP HYCL QX Y FIQU LIU IQPFU HYF NQFL;
YCB XQP HYCL QX Y IQPFU LIU PABUP HYF NQFL.

—ZUCRYKAC XPYCTNAC
GQQP PAVIYPB'F YNKYCYVT, GPUXYVU (1758)

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

A little neglect may breed mischief ...
for want of a nail, the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.

—Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanack, preface (1758)

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Spoiler: I think I first heard it on the the album of the same name as that song by Robert Allen Zimmerman

[Baldwin77]

[Apparatchik]

Ugh - more hippie gibberish from America’s worst harmonica player.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Good one.

[Oscar in Batangas]

SZGR was the one I had a crush on at age 15

[Magnum44]

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Hippie gibberage it is …. But I can’t help remembering this tune as I spent many hours as a preteen and teen practicing guitar and singing along to this and others, not really understanding what the words meant. 🫤

[Apparatchik]

Then the author has punished you twice!

[BlueLancer]

[manna]

Thanks.

[gitmo]