Sentence examples for double clue from inspiring English sources

What you must avoid at all costs is any superfluous linking words (such as 'and') between the two parts of the double clue.

The six new Quick Reads titles are Agatha Christie's The Double Clue: Poirot Short Stories, edited by Sophie Hannah and John Curran, Ann Cleeves Tooo Good to be True, Lucy Diamond's A Baby at the Beach Café, The Anniversary: Ten Tempting Stories From Ten Bestselling Authors edited by Veronica Henry, McNab's On the Rock, and an abridged version of Yousafzai's I Am Malala.

Your favourite double clue was 'Soft bit of Plasticine shaped to fasten box' for NESH/SPAR, and this perhaps serves to illustrate what one should strive for in such clues, i.e. a convincing piece of prose which hangs together as a unit and in which the division between the two consecutive clues is well disguised.

Only the contestant who selected the Daily Double clue may respond to that clue.

In the first round, Jennings was finally able to choose a Daily Double clue, while Watson responded to one Daily Double clue incorrectly for the first time in the Double Jeopardy!

During the Jeopardy! round, except in response to the Daily Double clue, contestants are not penalized for forgetting to phrase their response in the form of a question, although the host will remind contestants to watch their phrasing in future responses.

Gotta love those double clues.

Like any double clues, overlaps present a special challenge, and I readily concede that in some of mine the extra strain was all too evident.

The key, of course, to writing good double clues is to disguise the break between the two clues as effectively as possible and to make the whole thing read fluently, even when the two words involved have little or no semantic connection, are different parts of speech, etc.

I've never had an editor ask me NOT to double-clue, either, so if each of us has a good idea on how to clue the same entry, we send it on with both intact [Double-cluing is the practice of sending in more than one clue for an entry, with the intention of letting the editor choose the final clue. — D.A.] Usually, the fill ends up being evenly divided as well.

You were probably all too exhausted to bother about such things (not to mention the mislabelling of one double RL clue as WN, though I doubt whether this seriously misled anyone).