Sentence examples for solving a clue from inspiring English sources

This family-wrecking comes about when husbands spend time solving a clue rather than earning a crust: Twice within the past week or so there have been reports of police magistrates sternly rationing addicts to three puzzles a day, with an alternative of ten days in the workhouse.

Their popularity prompted debate among medical types over their effects: was the act of solving a crossword soothing and satisfying, or could the frustration of being unable to solve a clue unbalance a delicate mind?

After figuring out all of the letters, you're left with the solution: A MUSICAL OFFERING I wanted to reference one of my favorite puzzle canons of all time Bach's Musical Offering to Frederick the Great, which includes "riddle fugues" that force the musician to solve a clue in order to play.

It is like solving a cryptic-crossword clue.

They then had to work out URLs and IP addresses through solving a series of clues until they reached the final stage.

But among doctors, the effect was treated more as a sly joke than as a clue to solving a problem affecting millions of men.

Suspicion is thrown on one character, yet, when the killer turns out to be someone else, we're left not with the elation of solving a mystery from planted clues but with the chagrin of having been taken in by a ruse.

Oct. 21 REMBRANDT'S J'ACCUSE Peter Greenaway, the director of "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover," would like you to believe that Rembrandt hid the clues for solving a murder in his 1642 painting "The Night Watch".

In the book, Liam Connor, an aging fungal biologist with enemies, encodes clues to solving a decades-old mystery by inserting genes for fluorescent proteins in the DNA of various fungi.

The games let players carrying special items move about the park to interact with special kiosks that give clues toward solving a mystery or accomplishing a task.

It taught me early on that it's possible to solve a really good clue from its wordplay even when the answer is so obscure you've never heard of it.