# 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:** 170
**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:** [October 3, 2025, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3382 "2025-10-03T10:17:45Z")
DEDICATEE? > [@NotEncinoMan](#): > > One letter off ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3383 "2025-10-05T02:30:08Z")
Yep, sorry if that clue was a stinker ---
**Author:** ![WalterBishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3384 "2025-10-05T04:37:21Z")
Cook pie by the book, as a perfect example (7) ---
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3385 "2025-10-05T06:58:33Z")
Playing off DEDICATEE: Nine attest disfunction in adolescent supergroup. (4, 6) ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3386 "2025-10-05T08:34:08Z")
TEEN TITANS anagram and definition. Ill sit this one out so as not to fuck shit up again ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3387 "2025-10-05T09:29:21Z")
EPITOME epi plus tome meaning book ---
**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:** [October 8, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3388 "2025-10-08T01:02:31Z")
We seem to be a bit cattywampus. Who’s up and what’s the clue? ---
**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:** [October 8, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3389 "2025-10-08T01:29:31Z")
AFAIC, NotEncinoMan should have played off TEEN TITANS. ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3390 "2025-10-08T10:20:13Z")
> [@NotEncinoMan](#): > > ANS Got it, will do. (Clue starts below) Tit, anus all over the place in Obama’s controversial attire. (3, 4) ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3391 "2025-10-08T10:35:13Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > AFAIC, NotEncinoMan should have played off TEEN TITANS. Playing off this by the way ---
**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:** [October 8, 2025, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3392 "2025-10-08T11:01:38Z")
> [@NotEncinoMan](#): > > Tit, anus all over the place in Obama’s controversial attire. (3, 4) TAN SUIT (anagram) * * * “N Suite” came up randomly in this music streaming service. (6) ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3393 "2025-10-08T13:11:03Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > “N Suite” came up randomly in this music streaming service. (6) ITUNES (anagram and definition) To be in Madrid: brag about victory means third party reduces risk (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:** [October 8, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3394 "2025-10-08T13:44:19Z")
To be in Madrid: brag about victory means third party reduces risk (6) ESCROW (es + crow) +++++ I witnessed volcanic islands. (4, 6) ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3395 "2025-10-08T20:09:24Z")
WEST INDIES (Anagram) Ghouls shredded and discard skkn (6) ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3396 "2025-10-08T22:45:40Z")
Ah crap, theres a typo above and I can’t edit. ‘skkn’ shod just be ‘skin’ ---
**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:** [October 9, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3397 "2025-10-09T00:15:05Z")
SLOUGH (anagram) +++++ Should tough guy stick his head up his ass? (5) ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3398 "2025-10-09T02:46:12Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > Should tough guy stick his head up his ass? (5) OUGHT? Obviously an anagram of thug, literal meaning of should and rearrangement of letters but cant parse it completely ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3399 "2025-10-09T09:11:30Z")
> [@NotEncinoMan](#): > > OUGHT OUGHT - tough with T at the ass-end. I was so deep down a dead end I missed the obvious. ++++++±++++++ Spooner keeps his writing equipment here at the end of each lane. (3, 4) ---
**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:** [October 10, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3400 "2025-10-10T02:14:07Z")
PEN TINS (from TEN PINS; it could be the other way around, but for the clue it doesn’t matter 😉) +++++++ You are a snail: Organized and isolated (7) ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3401 "2025-10-10T03:24:17Z")
INSULAR (anagram of SNAIL + UR) Great surface, i genuinely considered life as a snail there for a second. +++++++++++ A female big? We need less rag to make all that. (7) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983.md?page=169) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983.md?page=171)