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A clue or a hint is a piece of information bringing someone closer to a conclusion [1] or which points to the right direction towards the solution. [2] It is revealed either because it is discovered by someone who needs it or because it is shared (given) by someone else.
a woman who knits and gossips; from the women who knitted and sewed while watching executions of prisoners of the French Revolution. trompe-l'œil lit. "trick the eye"; photographic realism in fine-art painting or decorative painting in a home. trou de loup lit. "wolf hole"; a kind of booby trap.
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
A good cryptic clue should provide a fair and exact definition of the answer, while at the same time being deliberately misleading. Another type of wordplay used in cryptics is the use of homophones. For example, the clue "A few, we hear, add up (3)" is the clue for SUM. The straight definition is "add up", meaning "totalize".
A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.
A clue containing a comparative or superlative always has an answer in the same degree (e.g., [Most difficult] for TOUGHEST). [6] The answer word(s) will not appear in the clue itself. The number of words in the answer is not given in the clue—so a one-word clue can have a multiple-word answer. [28]
Streaming media refers to multimedia delivered through a network for playback using a media player.Media is transferred in a stream of packets from a server to a client and is rendered in real-time; [1] this contrasts with file downloading, a process in which the end-user obtains an entire media file before consuming the content.
Clue (1992 video game), full title: Clue: Parker Brothers' Classic Detective Game; Clue (1998 video game), full title: Clue: Murder at Boddy Mansion or Cluedo: Murder at Blackwell Grange; Clue (book series), series of 18 children's books published throughout the 1990s; Clue, 1985 American ensemble mystery comedy film based on the board game.