# Cryptics **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 29, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525 "2016-03-29T14:43:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/21 "2016-04-01T05:01:18Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Philosopher retreats in total panic (5) PLATO (rev) Oinking tendency? (8) PENCHANT (“pen chant” —groan!) #### Tarheels distribute meals for someone who wants you. (5, 3) ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/22 "2016-04-01T07:42:40Z")
UNC+LE SAM [anag MEALS] Initial repetition is only repetition after all (12) ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/23 "2016-04-01T14:38:23Z")
ALLITERATION (all + iteration) ### Find the reason for San Diego quake (8) ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/24 "2016-04-01T17:20:27Z")
DIAGNOSE (anag) Cellphone store’s namesake sings perfectly (7) ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/25 "2016-04-04T13:49:58Z")
Really? No one? Ok, here’s another. If no one guesses the first one, I’ll post the answer later today. Dog to back into itself (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:** [April 5, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/26 "2016-04-05T01:56:03Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > Really? No one? > Dog to back into itself (4) TOTO ### I am stumped by your earlier one. Can you reveal a crossing letter. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/27 "2016-04-05T03:24:46Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > DIAGNOSE (anag) > Cellphone store’s namesake sings perfectly (7) Cellphone // store’s namesake / sings perfectly WAG: Samsung ? Sam’s Club plus the past perfect of sings? ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/28 "2016-04-05T04:26:40Z")
Correct! You got both of them! The ALLITERATION one is one of my favorite clues from a book of cryptics, but I made the last two up myself. I was a little worried I’d violated some arcane rule and made then unsolvable by true aficionados when no one got then right away! I was rather proud of myself for coming up with them. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/29 "2016-04-05T04:33:37Z")
It does take getting used to someone’s style. I only do The Nation one these days, but when I used to do both The Nation and Harper’s, I had to reset my brain between puzzles. 🙂 ETA; Sorry, meant to say nice one on the Samsung! I’d been thinking it over for quite a while! ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/30 "2016-04-05T04:46:26Z")
Oh, sorry! I said you got both of them and didn’t even realize you got SAMSUNG and **Biotop** got TOTO. Good job both of you! Here’s one I didn’t come up with: Obscure study about Noah’s boat (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:** [April 5, 2016, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/31 "2016-04-05T05:29:01Z")
DARKEN D (ARK )EN ××× Hostel marred the face of Everest (6) ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/32 "2016-04-05T08:16:29Z")
Lhotse (anagram of Hostel, part of Everest range) Setter gets in aircraft with little money, gets rich (almost) going round the sun (12) ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/33 "2016-04-05T09:08:54Z")
HELIOCENTRIC, though I don’t completely get it. “I” is “setter”? Play with lacy bra in the center of Brooklyn (7). ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/34 "2016-04-05T10:28:01Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > HELIOCENTRIC, though I don’t completely get it. “I” is “setter”? Yes. “Setter” usually refers to the person writing the clue, so means “I” or “me”. Except when it means a kind of dog, or the sun…Goddammit, I could have made it: “Setter gets in aircraft with little money, gets rich (almost) going round setter” which would have been a) harder and b) neater. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/35 "2016-04-05T14:15:46Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > HELIOCENTRIC, though I don’t completely get it. “I” is “setter”? > > Play with lacy bra in the center of Brooklyn (7). This is an anagram of lacy bra. I don’t know Brooklyn at all, but some googling suggests there’s a Barclay centre there. Dub equestrian gallant jumper (5) ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/36 "2016-04-05T15:57:44Z")
Dub equestrian gallant jumper **(6)** Because apparently I can’t goddam count. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/37 "2016-04-05T18:35:25Z")
KNIGHT ? syn. verb and noun? The seashore is primarily better eats and casual hospitality (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:** [April 5, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/38 "2016-04-05T18:39:24Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > KNIGHT ? syn. verb and noun? > The seashore is primarily better eats and casual hospitality (5) I got one! BEACH. Definition = seashore primary (initial) letters of “better eats and casual hospitality” The offspring of Central Intelligence (5) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/39 "2016-04-05T21:58:33Z")
I want to say SCION but I can’t get there. I’ll tell you what I do get, though: an earworm of “Got run over by a crappy purple Scion”. :mad: Odds are, I’d sell Ann down in Bermuda (6) ---
**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:** [April 5, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525/40 "2016-04-05T22:45:38Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I want to say SCION but I can’t get there. I’ll tell you what I do get, though: an earworm of “Got run over by a crappy purple Scion”. :mad: > Odds are, I’d sell Ann down in Bermuda (6) SCION is right. C.I. inside of S O N. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cryptics/750525.md?page=3)