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The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that equals it will equal throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error. 1997 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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