The digit to letter substitution is as follows:
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D L R V I A E Y N 0
"The NELLIE" is the name of a boat appearing in Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness.
(A) WARM UP:
- "RELINED" means Renewed Inner Material.
(B) TOUGHER:
- VERA LYNN (20 March, 1917 - 18 June 2020) represents the name of a famous English singer and entertainer.
- LORETTA LYNN (14 April, 1932 - 4 October, 2022) represents the name of a famous country music singer.
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DETAILED EXPLANATION:
"Heart of Darkness" is a veritable classic all over the Anglo-Saxon world, and accordingly it is well known that the name of the boat is NELLIE.
Then, in WARM UP 1, we obtain:
2ELINE0, which becomes RELINED in terms of the given clue.
Then, in TOUGHER 1, we obtain:
3ER5 L7NN, which is discerned as VERA LYNN, the legendary English singer who garnered global fame as a World War II entertainer.
Hence, TOUGHER 2 becomes L9RE**A LYNN, which is instantly decoded as LORETTA LYNN, the legendary Country Music singer.
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TRIVIA: One day, back in 1985, I was taken aback when I first learned that VL's maiden name was Welch and LL's maiden name was Webb! What a coincidence!!
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