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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 03/09/2021 6:21:19 AM PST by nikos1121
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2 posted on 03/09/2021 6:22:26 AM PST by nikos1121
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I managed to solve the puzzle, but only because I figured out the first name of the author.


4 posted on 03/09/2021 6:46:41 AM PST by EvilCapitalist (We must FIGHT, I repeat it sir, we must FIGHT! -Patrick Henry)
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8 posted on 03/09/2021 7:30:50 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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I got it but I don’t get it.


10 posted on 03/09/2021 8:05:50 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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1:50
This quote is a brain twister for me.
Maybe because it’s late.


20 posted on 03/09/2021 5:48:11 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop ("There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration” - Pompeo)
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I haven’t learned anything from previous puzzles so I guess I’ll have to do this one over and over.

I’m stuck on a word though....P or H?


21 posted on 03/09/2021 8:41:48 PM PST by scrabblehack
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Easy!. It’s the book “To Serve Man” in Klingon.


22 posted on 03/09/2021 11:51:47 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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