Then he sends the answers to established setters, and we devise the clues.
If you've decided to use a clue instead of the direct name, you'll need to devise a clear clue for the receiver.
Harold T. Bers, an advertising writer and puzzle constructor, devised the internal-clue crossword, in which the theme of the puzzle emerges gradually as successive definitions are solved: filling in "pussyfoot," "caterwaul," "kittenish"—together with an overall title "catalog"—would reveal the feline theme.
Clues do take longer to devise than normal, which is why PD puzzles don't occur too often.
Given that, anyway, there is another issue to be taken into account when performing keypoint deletion: an image that does not contain SIFT keypoints (or very few of them) is suspicious; such absence, especially in textured areas, could be taken as a clue of tampering, thus potentially allowing to devise forensic detectors revealing the manipulation.
Along the way, it also gave a few clues to health insiders and politicians on how to devise messages for the general election.
The story of quantum computing follows a Holmesian arc, since all the clues for devising a quantum computer have been there essentially since the discovery of quantum mechanics, waiting for a mind to properly decode them.
The new thinking provides crucial clues to devising the first treatments to attack the molecular origins of Alzheimer's and other brain diseases.
It would be unethical to devise an experiment like this in humans, of course, but we do have some clues from other types of studies.
To establish hierarchy, one needs to devise ways of directing attention by leading from general to specific while providing order-giving clues, imbedding sensibility, and distilling relationships between various elements.
