Cryptic can refer to:
- Crypsis, of animals that are difficult to observe
- Cryptic crossword, colloquially Cryptics, type of crossword
- Cryptic era, earliest period of the Earth
- Cryptic (album), by Edge of Sanity
- Cryptic Studios, video game developer
- Cryptics, role playing game characters from Demon: The Fallen
- Cryptic, Minnesota-based music group formed by Brownmark