# 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:** 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:** [July 13, 2021, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/121 "2021-07-13T12:25:26Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Tim and June comingled at _The Genghis Khan_ Temujin? If correct… +++++++ Ian in team stumbled and was dead (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:** [July 13, 2021, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/122 "2021-07-13T12:34:20Z")
Yes, his birth name. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2021, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/123 "2021-07-13T12:37:45Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > Ian in team stumbled and was dead (9) INANIMATE (anagram of “ian in team”) Mother Is A Lady First (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:** [July 13, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/124 "2021-07-13T13:36:55Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Mother Is A Lady First (8). MATERNAL (matern + a +l) Everything, even initially, is a horrible poem ---
**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:** [July 13, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/125 "2021-07-13T14:50:36Z")
Actually, I was thinking of Material (Mater +I + A + L) ---
**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:** [July 13, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/126 "2021-07-13T15:39:48Z")
Mother Is A Lady First (8).ALLEGORY ALLEGORY (ALL + GORY) +++++ Bring about collapse (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:** [July 13, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/127 "2021-07-13T17:30:23Z")
Sorry, wrong clue: Everything, even initially, is a horrible poem ALLEGORY (ALL + GORY) +++++ Bring about collapse (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:** [July 13, 2021, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/128 "2021-07-13T17:31:41Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > ALLEGORY (ALL + GORY) Forgot the E, but otherwise correct ---
**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:** [July 13, 2021, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/129 "2021-07-13T21:11:48Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Bring about collapse (5) Yield. ++++++ Glass houses omit sad clutter (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:** [July 14, 2021, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/130 "2021-07-14T04:12:04Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > Glass houses omit sad clutter (7) Amended: Tiny glass houses omit sad clutter (7) ---
**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:** [July 14, 2021, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/131 "2021-07-14T05:30:44Z")
Diatoms? ---
**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:** [July 14, 2021, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/132 "2021-07-14T12:02:11Z")
That’s it. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/133 "2021-07-14T14:31:34Z")
DIATOMS (anagram) +++++ Same voter fraud is terrific in New York, Cincinnati, Chicago and Boston. (3, 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:** [July 14, 2021, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/134 "2021-07-14T15:35:32Z")
Same voter fraud was terrific in New York, Cincinnati, Chicago and Boston. (3, 6) I like it better this way. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/135 "2021-07-14T16:26:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Same voter fraud was terrific in New York, Cincinnati, Chicago and Boston. (3, 6) Tom Seaver (anagram) +++++ That nutty masseur thinks he’s a Dutch priest! ---
**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:** [July 14, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/136 "2021-07-14T16:34:47Z")
How many letters? ---
**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:** [July 14, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/137 "2021-07-14T16:49:59Z")
I KNEW I was forgetting something! That nutty masseur thinks he’s a Dutch priest! (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:** [July 14, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/138 "2021-07-14T17:21:33Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > That nutty masseur thinks he’s a Dutch priest! (7) Erasmus +++++++ Doodles in baby’s crib, bless his heart (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:** [July 14, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/139 "2021-07-14T18:13:24Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > Doodles in baby’ **s crib, bles** s his heart (9) SCRIBBLES (hidden) Wretched in meagerly musical production (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:** [July 14, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/140 "2021-07-14T18:16:34Z")
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