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That was the only reference I could come up with for this clue without help (from the fifth estate, I guess one could say).
It's because I know Jeff Chen and Will Shortz, and neither one would use the word "hunch" in a clue without grabbing the opportunity to highlight the word's two very different meanings.
He can't toss out a clue without calling attention to it: "I saw you hobbling on your cane, your knees still not healed from what happened last summer," writes Louise.
My main concern, as always, is that I don't end up with a good clue without an author and address for it, since I usually detach and discard the completed grid part of the entry once I've checked that it is correct.
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The newest because they are fresh from the books and can follow the clues without a sense of just how unlikely the destination may be.
The authors of the study cited in "Seeking Emotional Clues Without Facial Cues" (April 6) puzzle about how it is that a person with Moebius syndrome can identify emotion from the facial expressions of others when they cannot mimic it themselves.
The tutor wants to elicit the word from the student by providing clues without the correct form.
According to C. J. Cowan, Bungie's director of cinematics, the studio used the character here to give story clues without actually revealing the story.
"Where others merely see, I observe," he intones thickly, and when he looks out a window he doesn't see two strangers approaching but "a young American lady and her half brother". Holmes operated in a simpler era, when it was possible to decode cultural clues without error because culture was cut-and-dried.
These are the decisions that are made by a leader without a clue and without a sense of what it takes to right the ship.
The famed anthropologist and classical scholar Sir James Frazer said of Pausanias: "without him the ruins of Greece would for the most part be a labyrinth without a clue, a riddle without an answer".
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