# Cryptic overlaps **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 25, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983 "2021-06-25T03:30:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 119
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2362 "2023-08-26T09:12:02Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > Bad dope (7) LOWDOWN (double meaning) ++++ I ate a Three Musketeers bar on a gut feeling.(6) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2363 "2023-08-26T17:35:11Z")
> [@Skunkdog](#): > > I ate a Three Musketeers bar on a gut feeling.(6) NOUGAT (anagram) * * * Drink rumored for the caiman incursion (8) ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2364 "2023-08-27T04:48:20Z")
GATORADE (“'gator raid”) +++++ Pop superstar covers head. Why, you ask? Infamous plaza! (6) ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2365 "2023-08-27T07:41:09Z")
DEALEY (Adele + y) +++++ Look back to put flower in perspective. It’s ugly. (7) ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2366 "2023-08-27T09:52:29Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > Look back to put flower in perspective. It’s ugly. (7) EYESORE (eye+rose) +++++ Have more gone west in secret?(6) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2367 "2023-08-27T11:12:12Z")
> [@Skunkdog](#): > > Have more gone west in secret?(6) OREGON (hidden word) * * * Available worker and original gangstah reportedly attending tumor study. (8) ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2368 "2023-08-27T15:37:40Z")
ONCOLOGY (“on-call O.G.”) +++++ Sliced meat stabilizers (5) ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2369 "2023-08-27T21:09:45Z")
Gyros ++++ Senator’s tote holds cypher solver (7,5) ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2370 "2023-08-28T06:05:54Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > Senator’s tote holds cypher solver (7,5) ROSETTA STONE (anagram) ++++ Long-running anime about modest swimwear (3,5) ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2371 "2023-08-28T08:03:03Z")
ONE PIECE +++ Ice chapel has no exit on top (8) ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2372 "2023-08-28T21:22:36Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > Ice chapel has no exit on top (8) CEPHALIC (anagram of ice chapel - e) ++++ That clarinet was sweet as candy.(8) ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2373 "2023-08-28T22:55:16Z")
> [@Skunkdog](#): > > That clarinet was sweet as candy.(8) LICORICE +++++++ Clue I see, and explain (9) ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2374 "2023-09-01T22:12:58Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Clue I see, and explain (9) ELUCIDATE sorta works, but sorta doesn’t. It’s the best I got. If the game’s gonna survive, I think we need a hint. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2375 "2023-09-01T23:58:50Z")
ELUCI [clue I] DATE (see) ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2376 "2023-09-02T13:56:25Z")
Strained inflection (5) ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2377 "2023-09-02T21:51:24Z")
TENSE (double meaning) +++++ I felt very calm heading to Florida for a tryst.(6) ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2378 "2023-09-05T21:45:11Z")
Hint: I felt very calm / heading to Florida for a tryst.(6) answer/rebus ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2379 "2023-09-06T00:50:39Z")
About 48 hours ago I considered SERENE, as it fit the overlap and word count and definition of “very calm”. But I could not for the life of me figure out what it could possibly have to do with Florida (except maybe it is southeast?) and I still can’t, even with confirmation that “very calm” is in fact the answer. Nevertheless, the last time I thought I’d sorta but sorta not solved a puzzle, it turned out I had. So, SERENE. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2380 "2023-09-06T01:10:02Z")
SEDATE, perhaps? (SE + Date?) ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2381 "2023-09-06T01:54:09Z")
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