# 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:** 172
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3422 "2025-10-21T11:49:24Z")
> [@NotEncinoMan](#): > > MIXED BLESSING Earth’s pull left rich man’s ailment. (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 22, 2025, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3423 "2025-10-22T09:28:07Z")
GOUT (G + out) ++++++ Befuddled loop put AI in paradise (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:** [October 22, 2025, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3424 "2025-10-22T10:52:12Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > Befuddled loop put AI in paradise (6) UTOPIA (O+put+AI) * * * England and Mike and Ms. Barkin are rumored to succeed famous actor. (3, 8) ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3425 "2025-10-23T09:27:53Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > England and Mike and Ms. Barkin are rumored to succeed famous actor. (3, 8) IAN MCKELLEN (sounds like it and that’s what he is one of) +++++ Uterus’ lining grows painfully wild, so I nod: tiresome. (13) ---
**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 23, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3426 "2025-10-23T13:01:05Z")
ENDOMETRIOSIS (anagram of “so I nod tiresome”) However there’s an O left over: Puzzle part I missed, wrong solution, or typo? ++++++ If that’s the correct solution: Stuck-in-their-ways idealists sempiternally yearn, pushing headstones up sides of mountains, starting over and over again. (8) ---
**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 30, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3427 "2025-10-30T00:41:27Z")
Hmm. We seem to be stuck. I think the solution to the last puzzle is correct, so barring input from **NEM** , I motion the active puzzle is: Off ENDOMETRIOSIS Stuck-in-their-ways idealists sempiternally yearn, pushing headstones up sides of mountains, starting over and over again. (8) ---
**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 30, 2025, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3428 "2025-10-30T10:22:58Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > Stuck-in-their-ways idealists sempiternally yearn, pushing headstones up sides of mountains, starting over and over again. (8) Sisyphus? ---
**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 30, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3429 "2025-10-30T12:44:11Z")
You’re a rock star! Roll on. ---
**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 30, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3430 "2025-10-30T14:21:25Z")
Playing off SISYPHUS Be quiet, you mongrel! I’m trying to enjoy my seafood appetizer. (9) ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3431 "2025-10-30T20:49:21Z")
HUSHPUPPY (sounds like then definition) A spectacular display from rag-tag tar heel state hypocrites (12) ---
**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 31, 2025, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3432 "2025-10-31T12:38:59Z")
> [@NotEncinoMan](#): > > A spectacular display from rag-tag tar heel state hypocrites (12) PYROTECHNICS (nc + hypocrites) * * * The ghost is a spy. (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:** [October 31, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3433 "2025-10-31T12:55:46Z")
SPOOK ++++++ Adequate sing-along is louder than noise at shoot-‘em-up site (2,6) ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3434 "2025-11-01T08:52:20Z")
OK CORRAL (cryptic then example of) +++++ Reorganise and raise morale with an offroad race for one’s soldiers? (5 , 4, 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:** [November 2, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3435 "2025-11-02T19:59:10Z")
Rally your troops? ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3436 "2025-11-02T22:27:21Z")
Bingo ---
**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 3, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3437 "2025-11-03T19:31:18Z")
Off RALLY YOUR TROOPS Disjointed new Sly biopic inspired by psychedelic drug (10) ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3438 "2025-11-03T20:43:01Z")
PSYLOCYBIN (anagram of N + SLYBIOPIC) +++++ Either man or woman is a 110 letter word (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 4, 2025, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3439 "2025-11-04T11:11:40Z")
> [@NotEncinoMan](#): > > Either man or woman is a 110 letter word (6) BINARY (double meaning) * * * Cereal grain and wrapper alleged to develop Canadian actor. (4, 8) ---
**Author:** ![NotEncinoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@NotEncinoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotEncinoMan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3440 "2025-11-05T23:49:19Z")
RYAN REYNOLDS (sounds like rye and wrap brand) +++++ Mixing as DJ, we lack that look of bewilderment. (5-5) ---
**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 6, 2025, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/3441 "2025-11-06T11:31:38Z")
> [@NotEncinoMan](#): > > Mixing as DJ, we lack that look of bewilderment. (5-5) SLACK JAWED (anagram) * * * Awchie’s wivaw puwwed up his undewweaw, awwedgedwy. (6) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983.md?page=171) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983.md?page=173)