Overlaps

SETTERRORIST- Compiler of Friday cryptics

WARNING - J K ROWLING SPOILER ALERT !

Harry Pottermination: "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well"

Boomeranga - someone who tries different hair colours but always ends up a red head

Gillarduous- Trying to govern a country with a minority government

nice SK, on that theme I'll put forward

CROSSWORDEAL = Friday

Joining in on the crossword theme:

Cryptickle: A clue with a particularly witty piece of wordplay

Anagrampage: A crossword compiler only using a single style of cryptic clue

AERODROMEDARY: Fauna native to Bahrain airport (or is a 5-overlap overdoing it?)

OVERHEARNING: Gossip writer's wages

INTERNECINEMA:A one-night movie

SPAMNESIA: All the forgettable emails/tweets/SMS's/Internet comments one's encountered over the years

ANAGRAMNESIA: Forgetting all the good anagrams in the wrong Brainstorm week

Damnesia! Why the 3-letter limit?

FOODLES- A banquet

...and in keeping with the title theme-

LOVERLAP- Juggling one's affairs...

JEDITOR: A media person who uses their powers for good

EDITORY: A right-wing journo

GENEMA: Someone who was born a d***head
DAMNESIA: Frustration at forgetting/misplacing something important

alarmistice: An agreement among tabloid media to cease publicising a sensationalist story

DOTCOMBO - The collection of blogs, websites, etc. that one checks each morning.

MILIBANDWAGON - Form of transport that British voters will be encouraged to jump on in the lead up to the next election.

PROLIFERATIONALISING - The process of justifying the stockpiling of nuclear weapons as a deterrent.

...publicising or milking ....

procrastinationalisation: Delays in privatisation such as keeping a portion nationalised.

BLOGJAM: a condition of having too many websites one frequents to function effectively in real life

INTERNARY: Three rotating med students

PAYPALACE: Home of internet entrepreneur

AMERICANDY: Overly sweet

SPRINGRATE - One who moves seamlessly from complaining about the cold to complaining about the pollen and magpies.

CHEFNER - A modern man who is able to attract women with his superior cooking skills.

SPELLINGO - Any slang word that is derived from corrupt spelling, e.g. skillz or killa

LOGONG: The "you've got mail" sound

LOGONORRHOEA: Effect of too much cyber-sex

COSTRICH - Someone ignoring the fact that they can't really afford something, by putting it on the credit card.

DIGESTURE:To signal a waiter

COMPLEXIS: A difficult language (cf PERPLEXIS), not be confused with SIMPLEXIS, a beginner's language

CLIMAXIMUM: The ultimate enjoyment

SEMTEXTILE: Used to garb suicide bombers

TELECOMPLEXITY- Trying to understand the NBN strategy

MASOCHISTORY- A grim past of pleasure and pain

TALIBANK- (Fringe)Islamic financier

EROTICKLE = the best kind of tickle (kudos to Mr X)
DECRYPTIC = quick crossword

or as a 5-er is that a bit of a TABOOBOO (=naughty slip-up)

also how about overlap-tautologies? for want of a better example

TIRED+REDEYED=TIREDEYED?

CONFINESSE: the ability to fit into undersized clothing; the ability to pack/stack objects well

NOMADDENING: frustrating due to an inability to make a decision

....decision or commit

accidentify: to identify wrongly

VIRUSTIC: Pertaining to citydwellers who move to the countryside and change the feel of those communities

Turning to our nation's leaders (with apologies to any OLDBAGers who work in the machine)-

SPARLIAMENT- Question time

SENATORTURE- The process of getting anything passed by the Upper House

CAUCUSHY- Parliamentary pension scheme

GOVERNMENTRAILS- What's left of Kevin Rudd

MINISTERILITY- The effect of a hung parliament

BUREAUCRATBAG- A sub-species of ministerial advisor*

CANBERRATIC- What happens to a person's behaviour when they enter politics

(*Editor's note- most of them are very nice, hard-working people)

Keshakespeare: Author of A Winter's Tik Tok

That was me above. As is this:

coffeeble: Babyccino

LOVABLETT: Gary's fan club

Oh, I like virustic.

OVERLAPSE - The last meeting between two friends; the conclusion of this weeks brainstorm.

FRIENDURE: To tolerate behaviour solely because it is from a friend

AEROSOLITARY: Being avoided due to wearing an overpowering scent

ORTHODOXYMORON: Belief in an infallible idiot

CITIZENITH: Supreme leader

Thoughts turn to Spring Racing Carnival...

RACETRACKET- Bookies' ring

TABOOKIE- Robbie Waterhouse

MARQUEENS- Jennifer Hawkins and Megan Gale (and Molly Meldrum, perhaps?)

BIRDCAGENDA- Sneaking into the Emirates marquee (which is what I hope to be doing on Saturday)

TATTOOL- Someone who goes overboard on gross, tasteless body art

Someone had to do it:

Angkor Watts: Cambodian temple to Brainstorm themes

SURDOPT: Surprise Adoption for those who don't like the word kidnapping.

MULTILUSION: Multitasking. Someone who's delusions have made their carelessness measurable.

Extraverticle: A person that is outgoing only when upright.

Scissorcerer: Expert user of scissors.

*Extravertical

COMBOVERFLOW: The hair on the side of a balding head

OVERWEIGHTLESSNESS: Being obese without understanding the gravity of the situation

DEGUSTATIONARY: Being unable to get up due to overeating.

You go away for a day, and there's an almighty upheavalanche. Some rib-ticklers here, with some jaw-droppers too. And some smart new players too. Quite the popcornucopia (or a surplus of bite-size savouries)

DA does that make you a day-tripperson?

...(who specialises in day-triposte?)

LOSERAPH: demon

Sorry DA, perhaps I should have called you a SOJOURNALIST (even though 5 letter overlaps are strictly verboten?)

nice work on the political ENSEMBLENDS, SK. (i usually try and stay out of the POLITICALAMITY)

i think there are some quite apt ensemblends out there for the pollies, eg KEVINDICTIVE/AMBASSADORK

No dramas, SK - sojournalist has a nice ring to it. (Just the kind of hack you need to cover the social milieu of the marqueens, that adorable new word of yours.)

Spot on, philth. And surely the Mad Monk is suited to the TROPPOSITION

CYBERMUDA: Time mysteriously lost on the Internet

STUPORNOGRAPHY: Desensitizing, dehumanizing pornography

OVERCONSUMERIAN: A person happy to continue overconsuming until the end of civilization

Your SBS colleagues could be enshrined in:

The Chaserna: A TV show where pollies' press conferences get hijacked by prank maths questions.

I'm not sure if this one's botanically correct but "wooden" seemed a bit harsh:

Sycamorecroft: Evergreen TV presenter

GLEEWAY: Preparedness to listen to poor music because it is part of a television program one is watching

FIGMENTALITY: Values based on false / unfounded beliefs

COMMERCENARY: Of business sole aimed at self-gain

INCIDENTICAL: Having witnessed/ experienced the same event

TEXTRAS: Everything supporting the main body of a text, such as pictures, tables, headings, footnotes and page numbers

PIMPLEMENTATION: Sinister change brought about in small increments

GENEROUSE To altruistically provide support and encouragement

PARADISEASE: An illness that excludes one from responsibilities without preventing leisure

Taking X's cue:

ICONOCLASTLE: Someone who looks at language in original ways

(enteritis)

▸ noun: inflammation of the intestine (especially the small intestine); usually characterized by diarrhea

INTELLIGENTERITIS: Pomposity due to exaggerating one's intelligence or its importance

and

MEDIARRH(O)EA: The pointless stories and articles wrongly passed off as news

LIMERICKETTY: My efforts last week