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 02/14/2021 2:58:56 AM PST by nikos1121

To: alicewonders; AloneInMass; Aria; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; capecodder; ...

From The Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional

2 posted on 02/14/2021 3:04:22 AM PST by nikos1121 ( )

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

WHEN WRITING THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE, DON’T LET ANYONE ELSE HOLD THE PEN. —SOURCE UNKNOWN

3 posted on 02/14/2021 4:13:33 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)

Got the ninth word rather quickly, and then the rest easily followed. Except the last name…

4 posted on 02/14/2021 4:34:47 AM PST by cartan

Le chef commande la brigade de cuisine

5 posted on 02/14/2021 4:56:21 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)

6 posted on 02/14/2021 4:57:05 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets; nikos1121

7 posted on 02/14/2021 5:17:13 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

I think there is a “T” left off the author’s last name. That said, thanks for all your efforts; I always enjoy these!

8 posted on 02/14/2021 5:57:38 AM PST by Ozymandias Ghost

To: Ozymandias Ghost

Yeah, but it’s silent....

9 posted on 02/14/2021 7:03:50 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )

“Yeah, but it’s silent....”
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I “_no_” ;^)

10 posted on 02/14/2021 7:19:47 AM PST by Ozymandias Ghost

2:29
This reminds me. I have to wash the dishes. ugh

11 posted on 02/14/2021 7:52:00 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop ("There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration” - Pompeo)

Oddly enough, just made Gruyere cheese and bacon quiche for my wife’s Valentines day breakfast.

12 posted on 02/14/2021 11:38:21 AM PST by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)

toughie for me.

Author's last name is missing a T .

13 posted on 02/14/2021 1:36:43 PM PST by Stars&StripesNE

To: Ozymandias Ghost

14 posted on 02/14/2021 6:58:42 PM PST by scrabblehack

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