# 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:** 28
**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 3, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/541 "2021-10-03T22:21:13Z")
Rock star rearranges immense song (4, 7) GENE SIMMONS (anagram) +++++ Randomly ruin some Frenchman. (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 4, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/542 "2021-10-04T01:31:32Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Randomly ruin some Frenchman. (8) MONSIEUR (anagram) * * * Country with three U’s, three U’s blended in drab. (7) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/543 "2021-10-04T13:23:35Z")
You go URUGUAY, I’ll go mine. (3 U’s in GRAY) Aye! (3) ---
**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 4, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/544 "2021-10-04T15:03:45Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Aye! (3) YES * * * Professor Pepperwinkle’s friend mangles mare puns. (8) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/545 "2021-10-04T15:41:49Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > Aye! (3) > > YES Actually, I had in mind “Yea” (an anagram of Aye). But close enough. ---
**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 5, 2021, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/546 "2021-10-05T00:26:50Z")
Professor Pepperwinkle’s friend mangles mare puns. (8) SUPERMAN (anagram) +++++ My girl? (5) ---
**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 5, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/547 "2021-10-05T18:37:42Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > My girl? (5) If it helps this could also be: My girl’s name. (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:** [October 6, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/548 "2021-10-06T01:11:46Z")
Angel? ---
**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 6, 2021, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/549 "2021-10-06T01:16:33Z")
Not Angel ---
**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 6, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/550 "2021-10-06T01:31:20Z")
Mandy? ---
**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 6, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/551 "2021-10-06T01:52:53Z")
Mandy? Yes. M and Y ---
**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 6, 2021, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/552 "2021-10-06T04:05:58Z")
Eli spun around and around, got mixed up, then surrendered (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 6, 2021, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/553 "2021-10-06T11:05:39Z")
Yielded? ---
**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 6, 2021, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/554 "2021-10-06T11:53:04Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Yielded Correct ---
**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 6, 2021, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/555 "2021-10-06T12:21:15Z")
A man detoured wreckage for French modernist. (7, 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 6, 2021, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/556 "2021-10-06T14:47:25Z")
Edouard Manet. (anagram) —————— Traveling together on the superhighway you make a tinny rattle (3,10) ---
**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:** [October 6, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/557 "2021-10-06T17:06:59Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > Traveling together on the superhighway you make a tinny rattle (3,10) Net Neutrality (anagram U + A TINNY RATTLE) +++++ When I dress ornately, I can have a hat and a jacket. (8) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/558 "2021-10-06T19:53:03Z")
TYROLEAN (anagram of ORNATELY) Neo’s Mom is proud 'e’s the 'ero of The Matrix… (8) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/559 "2021-10-07T12:49:46Z")
… or (3, '2, 3) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/560 "2021-10-07T21:40:11Z")
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