clue
/kluː/ noun A2- Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion. · Give me a clue because the question is too vague.
- An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence. · The detectives were looking for some clues at the scene of the crime.
- Insight or understanding ("to have a clue [about]" or "to have clue". See have a clue, clue stick) · I had little clue that I was being carefully monitored by the CCTV.
- The text that indicates an answer in a crossword puzzle.
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“I was already firmly convinced, Watson, that there were not three separate mysteries here, but one only, and that if I could read the Musgrave Ritual aright I should hold in my hand the clue which would lead me to the truth concerning both the butler Brunton and the maid Howells.
“No clue?” asked Holmes, cocking his eye at the Colonel.
“We had no clue in the Acton affair.
Beyond the fact that he was a middle-sized man and dressed in some dark stuff, we have no personal clue; but we are making energetic inquiries, and if he is a stranger we shall soon find him out.”
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