# 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:** 99
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1962 "2023-02-28T14:14:13Z")
GASTROPUB (anagram of “a grub stop”, nice one - I particularly like anagrams that also serve as the definition) +++++ Give up in dubiously headless way - it’s all over (12) ---
**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:** [February 28, 2023, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1963 "2023-02-28T19:02:45Z")
Ubiquitously (dubiously - d + quit (inserted)) ++++ Poem about 50-yr. icy relationship (5) ---
**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:** [February 28, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1964 "2023-02-28T19:12:53Z")
LYRIC (L = 50, + yr +ic) +++++ Ay, ay, ay! Now is the winter of our discontent very nearly over, Dick. (7,3) ---
**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 1, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1965 "2023-03-01T02:21:45Z")
Richard III (three) +++ For the third time my pee is interrupted in the theater.(5-4) ---
**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 1, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1966 "2023-03-01T02:36:08Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Ay, ay, ay! Now is the winter of our discontent very nearly over, Dick. (7,3) RICHARD III (Dick + I,I,I) * * * Noisy North Dakota D is on the racetrack. (4, 3) ---
**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 3, 2023, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1967 "2023-03-03T00:56:04Z")
Because of the simulpost I’m not sure which puzzle is officially in play. But I can clarify for mine, I considered the second word of the answer to be “three”. So therein (or thereon 😉) lies the overlap. ---
**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 3, 2023, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1968 "2023-03-03T04:43:35Z")
For the third time my pee is interrupted in the theater.(5-4) THREE-PEAT (Theater\* with PE) +++++ Surprisingly, Martian desert might provide sources of fruit. (8, 5) ±±± OR ±±± Noisy North Dakota D is on the racetrack. (4, 3) INDY 500 (“N-D” D=500) +++++ All those years in college and I got nothing to show for it. That’s cold. (1, 7) ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1969 "2023-03-03T08:05:28Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Surprisingly, Martian desert might provide sources of fruit. (8, 5) TAMARIND TREES > [@Biotop](#): > > All those years in college and I got nothing to show for it. That’s cold. (1, 7) 0 DEGREES Well done getting us back on track Biotop! On Easter Sunday, we took out the sedan and visited the inlet.(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 3, 2023, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1970 "2023-03-03T13:43:19Z")
Estuary (Easter Sunday - sedan) ++++ Blathering on about bovines in the city and elsewhere (7,3) ---
**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:** [March 3, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1971 "2023-03-03T16:55:05Z")
YAKKITY YAK (double definition) +++++ Zeroes have the suspected keys, not the usually confused agents. (6,4) ---
**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:** [March 3, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1972 "2023-03-03T18:19:40Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > YAKKITY YAK (double definition) Correct answer. By way of explanation, when I made the clue I was using what was, unbeknownst to me at the time, a misspelling of that term as “yackity yak”. Hence the “bovines in the city” part of the clue. My mistake. Please carry on with **Prof’s** puzzle: > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Zeroes have the suspected keys, not the usually confused agents. (6,4) ---
**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:** [March 5, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1973 "2023-03-05T16:30:17Z")
Keyser Soze (anagram zeroes + keys) ++++ Spell out a description of erstwhile simplicity (7) ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1974 "2023-03-06T14:52:41Z")
EXPLAIN (ex-plain = erstwhile simplicity) * * * Food gives new plenty (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 7, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1975 "2023-03-07T17:23:39Z")
Noodles (n + oodles)? ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1976 "2023-03-07T17:59:07Z")
Yup xx ---
**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 8, 2023, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1977 "2023-03-08T02:23:05Z")
Off NOODLES: Playing with the eel? I’m sure it has nothing better to do (7,4) ---
**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 8, 2023, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1978 "2023-03-08T04:24:23Z")
Off NOODLES: Playing with the eel? I’m sure it has nothing better to do (7,4) I can anagram LEISURE TIME, but it does not play off of NOODLES. ---
**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 8, 2023, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1979 "2023-03-08T04:34:59Z")
You Jedi mind read through my spelling error! That is indeed the solution. Please take it away. ---
**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 8, 2023, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1980 "2023-03-08T06:48:21Z")
LEISURE TIME (anagram of “eelimsureit”) +++++ I fear filming the Lost actress. (7, 8) ---
**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 10, 2023, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptic-overlaps/944983/1981 "2023-03-10T04:13:43Z")
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