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CLUE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CLUE answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for CLUE

Every other clue in this collection answered by CLUE, most used first.

• Hint - used 104 times, most recently in 2026
• Helpful hint - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Crossword hint - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Detective's find - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• This is one - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Whodunit hint - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Bit of evidence - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Colonel Mustard's game - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• Lead - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Detective's lead - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Sleuth's find - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Professor Plum's game - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
• Whodunit game - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Fingerprint, perhaps - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
• Inkling - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Piece of evidence - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Tip-off - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• Crossword feature - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• You're reading one - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Detective's discovery - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Mrs. Peacock's game - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
• Mystery board game - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• Whodunit board game - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Hint for a detective - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Miss Scarlet's game - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Mr. Boddy's game - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Solving aid - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• You're looking at it - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Board game - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Hint in a whodunit - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Detective's quest - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Game with rooms and weapons - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Popular board game - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• What this is - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• One of the Great Lakes - ERIE, used 258 times
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• From square one - ANEW, used 181 times
• Wise one - SAGE, used 146 times
• One - UNIT, used 118 times
• "Not guilty," for one - PLEA, used 117 times

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