Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

HNPPDW’H ZDJHD FJOF JZZ OXX HFXWO J QJOD. — VAZZAJP HFJBDHYDJWD, HXSSDO 18

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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.## ping list message

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[Baldwin77]

[bert]

For us visually challenged

[MustKnowHistory]

As hot as it has been, I am happy to see it end.

Thanks again to all who post these.

[grey_whiskers]

OK, you win the thread.

[ComputerGuy]

Two days ago it was 98.

[grey_whiskers]

[Magnum44]

[scrabblehack]

I’m hung up on the last word...
Best guess is destiny
2nd guess pertains to time.

[aquila48]

Not if you live in Arizona!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Go with your second guess.

[Political Junkie Too]

Figuring out the two three-letter words with double letters opened up the author's name for me, which then revealed the rest of the puzzle.

-PJ

[grey_whiskers]

All too true...

[grey_whiskers]

All too true...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I didn’t think it would be particularly hard, for precisely the reasons you outlined.

[gitmo]

Same here.

It’s a sad message.

[doorgunner69]

Yeah, just starting to warm up in Hawaii. Sept-Octobe tend to be our hot months.

Heading to Arizona in a couple weeks, hoping it starts to cool off there.

[manna]

Thanks.