# 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:** 127
**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:** [November 16, 2023, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2522 "2023-11-16T02:57:26Z")
Animals tore its eye out (6) OTTERS (“tore its -i” anagram) ++++++ Soak demonstrator (6) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2523 "2023-11-16T20:41:15Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Soak demonstrator (6) Is it SQUIRT? +++++ Who goes where triads are wibbly-wobbly? (6) ---
**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:** [November 16, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2524 "2023-11-16T21:26:27Z")
Not squirt… ---
**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:** [November 17, 2023, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2525 "2023-11-17T02:35:10Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Soak demonstrator (6) Is it SQUIRT? +++++ Who goes where triads are wibbly-wobbly? (6) +++++ Not SQUIRT. Though it plays equally well off of TARDIS (triads\*). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2526 "2023-11-17T07:24:22Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Not SQUIRT Ah. SHOWER +++++ When it comes to abominations of the night, there are few lower than this guy. (8) ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2527 "2023-11-17T07:26:13Z")
Pretty sure the original clue was SHOWER. +++++ The scarlet viking ate a rodent and became irrational.(7) ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2528 "2023-11-17T07:43:46Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > When it comes to abominations of the night, there are few lower than this guy. (8) WEREWOLF (few lower\*) > [@Skunkdog](#): > > The scarlet viking ate a rodent and became irrational.(7) ERRATIC (Eric with rat in the middle) Foul or loch water mixes and flows into rine - it’s a gas (8) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2529 "2023-11-17T08:02:12Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > Foul or loch water mixes and flows into rine - it’s a gas (8) CHLORINE +++++ Broken sensor in charge of detecting gangrenous tissue. (8) ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2530 "2023-11-17T08:20:01Z")
Or fluorine (foul\*) if you wanted to play off werewolf instead 🙂. NECROSIS (sensor I C\*) Opera character soiled costume (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:** [November 17, 2023, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2531 "2023-11-17T11:06:47Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > Opera character soiled costume (6) ISOLDE (anagram) * * * Mixed hail led to infamous barber. (7) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2532 "2023-11-17T11:07:35Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > Opera character soiled costume (6) ISOLDE\* +++++ This festered nation should be hurled out the window. (14) ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2533 "2023-11-17T12:06:06Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Mixed hail led to infamous barber. (7) DELILAH (hail led\*) > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > This festered nation should be hurled out the window. (14) DEFENESTRATION (festered nation\*) Our hands mixed Assets Under Administration, racing to Central America (8 or 9) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2534 "2023-11-17T12:48:42Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > Our hands mixed Assets Under Administration, racing to Central America (8 or 9) (VERY nicely written) HONDURAS (our hands\*) NICARAGUA (A, U, A, racing\*) Let’s see if we can splice these bad boys together, before it gets out of hand. +++++ Lobster got a degree from community college; now he’s got an old-timey sextant. (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:** [November 17, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2535 "2023-11-17T16:07:22Z")
Astrolabe (lobster + AA) +++++ Murder victim’s name sound familiar? (4) ---
**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:** [November 17, 2023, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2536 "2023-11-17T17:29:20Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > Murder victim’s name sound familiar? (4) ABEL (soundalike) * * * Ring a Ms. Summer for deadly plant. (10) ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2537 "2023-11-17T21:49:23Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Ring a Ms. Summer for deadly plant. (10) BELLADONNA +++++ Al Capone’s foil (8) ---
**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:** [November 19, 2023, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2538 "2023-11-19T03:02:34Z")
Aluminum? ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2539 "2023-11-19T06:07:51Z")
Yes, Al (chemical symbol) and a type of foil. Your puzzle Biotop. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2023, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2540 "2023-11-19T12:14:45Z")
ALUMINUM +++++ Broken dish came from FDR’s charity. (5, 2, 5) ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/2541 "2023-11-20T04:30:02Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Broken dish came from FDR’s charity. (5, 2, 5) MARCH OF DIMES (anagram) Is it wrong that my first thought was Meals On Wheels? ++++++ The English drunk was idle and hard to understand.(8) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983.md?page=126) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983.md?page=128)