0 a sign or some information that helps you to find the answer to a problem, question, or mystery:
1 information that helps you to find the answer to a problem, question, or mystery:
For five months, Russell remained a fugitive, leaving no clues as to his whereabouts.
The police found a vital clue to the girl's disappearance in a wooded area near her home.
Forensic scientists are going over the victim's flat in a search for clues about the murderer.
The police are collecting clues in order to piece together the details of the day she died.
He pored over the letter searching for clues about the writer.
The police tried to reconstruct the crime using the statements of witnesses and clues that they had found.
The structural clues presumably complement their use of ontological information.
We do not merely encounter clues as to what persons are thinking, mere signs or manifestations, but the persons themselves.
The allusions create clues enough, and we need not unpack them as we go.
