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Four for the first night

A cryptogram, a mini crossword, a letter matrix, and a hex dump. None of them long.

CipherMonday 31 August 2026

Cipher · Monday 31 August 2026

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Four for the first night.

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First night. Four locks. None of them long.

  1. Cryptogram

Simple substitution. No letter stands for itself. G is T. M is E.

N VNACXNR JMDAHF XAGT N CBLBEBGAQM RBS LNH SFM GXALM

Four for the first night
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  1. Mini crossword
C A T C H
O ■ ■ ■ E
U L T R A
C ■ ■ ■ T
H E A R S

Across

  1. What the chopsticks did to the booster (5)
  2. Starship cargo energy (5)
  3. What a dish does to a launch (5)

Down

  1. Where the second controller lives (5)

  2. What a stainless ship does on the way home (5)

  3. Letter matrix

Eight edition words, any direction, diagonals included.

S P E E D A T A
C F T Q L I M S
C U L S B R T C
O C E R M E A A
U T O H E Z S T
C V I L Y N S C
H S R A T S D H
V H S I D I U R

Find: SPEED, STEEL, TESLA, CATCH, COUCH, ORBIT, STARS, DISH

  1. Hex

ASCII bytes. Spaces are 20.

54 48 45 20 43 4F 55 43 48 20 49 53 20 41 20 43 4F 4E 53 4F 4C 45


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