* 1883 – American Old West: Self-described " Black Bart the poet " gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.

* In the film National Treasure a clue to finding the Templar Treasure leads the main characters to Wall Street's Trinity Church.

In essence, a cryptic clue leads to its answer as long as it is read in the right way.

The challenge is to find the way of reading the clue that leads to the solution.

A clue from the dead man leads them to Feldman's house for questioning.

Holding Riley, Abigail, and Patrick hostage, Ian forces Ben to use the bifocals and find the next clue, which leads the group to Trinity Church in New York City.

Overproduction of prolactin leads to cessation of menstrual periods and infertility, which may be a diagnostic clue.

It is Philo Vance's characteristic erudition that leads him to a key clue that allows him to penetrate a very clever alibi and reveal the killer.

One clue leads to a treasure ( which is a Byzantine artifact ) and another clue and continues that way until three treasures and clues have been found.

* One Man's Treasure ( 2009 ) – A group of missionaries re-open an area and find a journal with a clue that leads them on a treasure hunt.

A clue leads them to Rockaway, but when it is mentioned they notice strange behavior from Cadmus Quill.

Every potential clue leads to small revelations, but bigger mysteries.

This clue leads them to Izmir Motors, owned by Malcolm Izmir.

The investigations seemed to have reached a dead end, when a chance clue leads the investigators to Bahid in Rajasthan and to " Mirchi Seth " Rambandhu Gupt ( Akhilendra Mishra ).

# " A Criminal Mind " ( December 19, 1999 ) – Glenn and Dana are confused when a clue from a hypnotized man leads them to a murder victim, while Roberta and Manny join forces with a bounty hunter.

Even when she is not doing her most brilliant work she holds her reader's attention, leads them on from clue to clue, and from error to error, until they come up with a smash against surprise in the end.

Another clue leads Faraday to suspect that his son may be in danger.

When Dixie Mae and the Ellens reveal that they are all actually simulations, the researchers explore the email and find a clue that leads them to a ' cookie ', a file that is passed from each iteration to the next with messages from the centuries of time they have been simulated over and over.

Found hanging in his own residence with the typical clue sheet being a personal sheet of paper marked " From the desk of Harvey Dent, D. A ," which leads to Gordon believing for most of the story that Dent / Two-Face is the Hangman.

When a clue indicates that King Kerry can be found at a place called the Silver Mountain, the enterprising Mandy leads Nox on a search for the missing monarch.

Brendan steals her notepad during the encounter, finding a clue that leads him to her dead body.

An issue of Black Mask magazine features as a ( planted ) clue in the 1927 murder mystery novel Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers.

Tik-Tok lets Dorothy in on his plan — if he guesses incorrectly, she can see what ornament he will be transformed into, giving her a clue as to which one the Scarecrow is hidden as.

I think, too '', he said, his dark eyes mischievous, `` that you will find there some clue to the secret of the cathedrals about which you have spoken ''.

Summers ' phrase " or think the other team hasn't got a clue " was intended as a strategy suggestion.

It is this last consequence of the diphtheria that provides the two researchers with a valuable clue of the nature of the disease since it is caused by an intoxication due to a toxin introduced into the organism by the bacillus, that while secreting this particular venom is able to multiply itself: they are therefore inclined to think that the bacillus owes its virulence to the toxin.

I think it is obvious she has not a clue about nutrition.

" The chorus of the song is sung through the eyes of a young Pip, " Hey Estella, I may think you're a shrew, but I see light in the darkest places if you had the slightest clue.

His words to Menzies were " I do not think they have a clue.

I think the title gives rather a good clue.

I just gasped, I didn ’ t have a clue that I was going to play – it was a great way of doing it, he didn ’ t give me a chance to think about it, I just had to go out there and play!

According to former CIA Director Richard M. Helms: " The code names for most Agency operations are picked in sequence from a sterile list, with care taken not to use any word that might give a clue to the activity it covers.

If genuine, the latter identification would form the only direct clue in the contemporary record which might link Eric with the Norwegian dynasty.

A crossword creator might choose to clue the answer SEN ( as in the abbreviation for " Senator ") as " Washington bigwig: Abbr.

Depending on the puzzle creator or the editor, this might be represented either with a question mark at the end of the clue or with a modifier such as " maybe " or " perhaps ".

Backwards words can be indicated by words like " climbing ", " retreating ", or " ascending " ( depending on whether it is an across clue or a down clue ); letters can be replaced or removed with indicators such as " nothing rather than excellence " ( meaning replace E in a word with O ); the letter I can be indicated by " me " or " one ;" the letter O can be indicated by " nought " or " a ring " ( since it visually resembles one ); the letter X might be clued as " a cross ", or " ten " ( as in the Roman numeral ), or " an illiterate's signature ", or " sounds like your old flame " ( homophone for " ex ").

Note that since these definitions come from the same root word, an American magazine might not allow this clue.

Some scholars consider this a clue that the poem might have been performed as ritual drama.

The names of the streets within each section uniformly begin with the same letter that begins the name of the section in question except for the section of Green Lynn, which was not constructed by Bill Levitt, a plan that offers a good clue as to where any particular street might be located.

The original album cover, designed by art collective Hipgnosis, shows a cow standing in a pasture with no text nor any other clue as to what might be on the record.

* Roman numerals: for example the word " six " in the clue might be used to indicate the letters

As Heylin writes, some of these songs gave Dylan " an all-important clue as to how he might mold traditional melodies and sensibility to his own worldview.

Just like those ( restless ) spirits which, when roused by ambition, are usually inflamed with the desire of revenge, he applied himself with all his might to exterminate the truth ; and finding the clue of a certain old opinion, he marked out a path for himself with the subtlety of a serpent.

The idea behind a crib is that cryptologists were looking at incomprehensible ciphertext, but if they had a clue about some word or phrase that might be expected to be in the ciphertext, they would have a " wedge ," a test to break into it.

A clue might lie in the gold hunter, a popular pocket watch, owned by the deceased gentleman.

He has declared that his favorite crossword clue of all-time is " It might turn into a different story " ( whose solution is SPIRAL STAIRCASE ).

In keeping with the several indications within Revelation text that there is some encryption, the cube may not even represent a cube, but rather a sphere or spheroid, with a radius equivalent to approximately 6, 000 stadia or 690 miles ; alternatively the symbol might be taken as a " sacred dodecahedron " with the twelves given as a clue to its actual, faceted shape.

Unfortunately hundreds were in existence, so it was a clue that might never be traced.

Rogers ' explanation of the clue was: "' Take one that never changes ', well, that could be Dusty Bin which of course is where you might throw a wishbone.

The host-played by Les Dennis-presents as the final clue a suitcase and the rhyme: " I pack my bags to go on one, and stay in a nice hotel, and see the sun shine through the palm trees ; this a travel agent might sell .".

With global economies in ruins and all-out world war on Earth due to dwindling resources more than a possibility, the U. S. government turned to the UAC, giving it carte blanche on Mars in a desperate bid to construct an off-world outpost that might provide resources and a military advantage, as well as something so secret that even members of government do not have a clue about it.

She asks Dauntless to try to give her a clue as to what the test might be, but he's not sure.

Shortly afterwards, Watson asks Holmes if he has a clue, and Holmes enigmatically replies that the cigarettes might show him.

The city of Ankh-Morpork has a Temple of Small Gods, which provides spiritual solace to those who, while they may accept the idea of a deistic presence in the universe, don't really have a clue what it might be.