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How to solve the Nov. 29 cryptoquote in the Wisconsin State Journal?

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The FBI needs your help with this Zodiac killer message

The killer's identity is Solve path: Easter eggs:
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'SILVER' -> ‘LESIRU' and 'GOLDEN' -> 'LEGOND', so 'NATURE' -> what?

Looking at the options B and C can be easily ruled out. Either A or D is correct. S I L V E R -----> L E S I R V (123456 ---> 351264) Similarly NATURE -----> TRNAEU So done! Its option (D).
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'SILVER' -> ‘LESIRU' and 'GOLDEN' -> 'LEGOND', so 'NATURE' -> what?

Breaking up the encryption into steps I get:
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'SILVER' -> ‘LESIRU' and 'GOLDEN' -> 'LEGOND', so 'NATURE' -> what?

There is a typo in the letters 'LESIRU', it should be 'LESIRV' The trick is to give each letter a number, and then cross reference it to the original: ...
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'SILVER' -> ‘LESIRU' and 'GOLDEN' -> 'LEGOND', so 'NATURE' -> what?

SILVER -> LESIRU GOLDEN -> LEGOND Now do the same for NATURE and use the second sequence of numbers to rearrange the resulting word:
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'SILVER' -> ‘LESIRU' and 'GOLDEN' -> 'LEGOND', so 'NATURE' -> what?

GOLDEN -> LEGOND
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'SILVER' -> ‘LESIRU' and 'GOLDEN' -> 'LEGOND', so 'NATURE' -> what?

It looks like there's a typo in the question: If so, here is how I solved it: Then the answer is:
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In a certain code 'NATIONAL' is written as 'JUBOKZMN'. How is 'ELECTION' written in that code?

Starting with 'NATIONAL' In the same manner, 'ELECTION' becomes
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the flute section keeps passing notes

My first guess was that the numeric values were but I later decided they might be something closer to the theme, like Either way, I decided that whatever the numeric values were, they had to This ...
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My first attempt at creating a self-referential cipher

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A fun and simple Nonogram... ...with a cipher

Even though it wasn't part of the original question, in the comments OP gave out this invaluable nugget of information: Since the nonogram was definitely difficult enough to warrant such trickery, ...
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see/// ,sm. upi eo;; gohitr yjod piy/

Solution: aww... man, you will figure this out. Detailed cipher settings:
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A Squared Cipher

Plaintext Cipher Method Solve path
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A 10x9 Hidato puzzle with a cipher

The intended answer is probably: The solved grid looks as follows. Red cells show interchangeable numbers which could partially be filled in by decoding the cipher. To solve the grid, start with ...
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