# 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:** 58
**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:** [March 21, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1142 "2022-03-21T13:37:33Z")
Nah, OSMOSIS (soundalike Oz + Mo + sez) +++++ Call me Abe’s firstborn. (7) ---
**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:** [March 21, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1143 "2022-03-21T17:06:04Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Call me Abe’s firstborn. (7) Ishmael ++++ Stepping back, I was not pelted by the particles in the vacuum (7) ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2022, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1144 "2022-03-22T02:45:48Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Nah, OSMOSIS (soundalike Oz + Mo + sez) Right answer, but I’m pretty sure it’s Oz + Moses. (i.e. Moses Malone). ---
**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:** [March 22, 2022, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1145 "2022-03-22T07:14:29Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > Right answer, but I’m pretty sure it’s Oz + Moses. (i.e. Moses Malone). Ah. I _WAS_ wondering who Mo Malone was. Now I’m wondering who Moses Malone is. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2022, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1146 "2022-03-22T11:36:22Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > Right answer, but I’m pretty sure it’s Oz + Moses. (i.e. Moses Malone). Correct The “says” part is a homophone indicator. As long as the answer is right, it doesn’t really matter how it was determined. I’ve done this many times in cryptics. I figured out the answer because of the letters from intercepting answers. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1147 "2022-03-22T18:25:13Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > Stepping back, I was not pelted by the particles in the vacuum (7) (That’s a very good one, btw) LEPTONS (backwards container) +++++ What was the reaction to the chaotic, destructive attack? Not laughs. (9) ---
**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:** [March 22, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1148 "2022-03-22T20:46:46Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > What was the reaction to the chaotic, destructive attack? Not laughs. (9) ONSLAUGHT (“not laughs” anagram) * * * No initial butchery results in merriment. (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:** [March 22, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1149 "2022-03-22T21:23:07Z")
LAUGHTER (SLAUGHTER - S) In _Oh, God!_, _Young Frankenstein_ and _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_, Ms. Garr showed she had the rite stuff. (4) ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1150 "2022-03-22T23:26:03Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > In _Oh, God!_ , _Young Frankenstein_ and _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_ , Ms. Garr showed she had the rite stuff. (4) TERI (anagram of “rite”) Off topic: Moses Malone was an NBA Hall of Fame center voted league MVP 3 times in his career. +++++ One candle lit in a cool place? (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:** [March 23, 2022, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1151 "2022-03-23T08:52:56Z")
> [@Skunkdog](#): > > One candle lit in a cool place? (7) ICELAND (anagram 1 + candle, with the “I” standing in for the “1”) +++++ Rock and roll down to his office with that rent check. (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:** [March 23, 2022, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1152 "2022-03-23T11:23:14Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Rock and roll down to his office with that rent check. (8) LANDLORD (“and roll” anagram + d) * * * Yawn, base 2 system loses initial characteristic after Gerald loses his first. (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:** [March 23, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1153 "2022-03-23T12:56:43Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Yawn, base 2 system loses initial characteristic after Gerald loses his first. (8) Ordinary (anagram (binary - b) + (Ford - F)) ++++ Sycophant awkwardly confirms no scanning electron microscope. (3,3) ---
**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:** [March 23, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1154 "2022-03-23T17:26:56Z")
YES MAN (anagram of “Nay, SEM”?) +++++ Best selling book: Egg Fear: a Ben Nelson novel. (4, 2, 5, 6) ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1155 "2022-03-23T22:35:05Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Best selling book: Egg Fear: a Ben Nelson novel. (4, 2, 5, 6) ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (anagram of “Egg Fear: a Ben Nelson”) ++++ Liberals seem upset by society’s work on injustice.(3,10) ---
**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:** [March 23, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1156 "2022-03-23T23:47:01Z")
LES MISERABLES (anagram of LIBERALS SEEM) This sore rubs my insole (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:** [March 24, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1157 "2022-03-24T01:25:38Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > This sore rubs my insole (6). LESION (insole anagram) * * * Take the cap off Italian spice and send it back to that wild ass. (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:** [March 24, 2022, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1158 "2022-03-24T02:22:06Z")
Take the cap off Italian spice and send it back to that wild ass. ONAGER (oregano-o anagram) +++++ Author Uris’ detergent spilled (8, 5) ---
**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:** [March 24, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1159 "2022-03-24T18:30:47Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Author Uris’ detergent spilled (8, 5) GERTRUDE STEIN (anagram of Uris detergent) +++++ Too bad he’s unintelligible, or he could fill the tenor niche in my hastily-assembled opera company. (10) ---
**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:** [March 24, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1160 "2022-03-24T20:45:13Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Too bad he’s unintelligible, or he could fill the tenor niche in my hastily-assembled opera company. (10) INCOHERENT (“tenor nice” anagram) * * * Tennessee team includes Zeus’s parents. (6) ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1161 "2022-03-24T21:46:25Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Tennessee team includes Zeus’s parents. (6) TITANS (double meaning) ++++ Abandoned mine taken over by single Indian.(8) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983.md?page=57) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983.md?page=59)