Referring Clues

• Help for Nancy Drew
• Professor Plum's game
• Colonel Mustard's game
• Shoe impression, maybe
• Tip-off
• Lead
• Fingerprint or dropped handkerchief, say
• It may be found with a magnifying glass
• Print, maybe
• This, for example
• Fingerprint, perhaps
• See 24-Across
• Footprint, maybe
• Sleuth's find
• Inkling
• Airhead's lack?
• Sleuth's need
• Crossword hint
• Help for a detective
• Whodunit board game
• Detective's discovery
• This is one
• Hint
• Answer's opposite
• Word in many a Nancy Drew title
• Game with Miss Scarlet and Professor Plum
• Game with Colonel Mustard and Mrs. Peacock
• Game associated with the starts of 17-, 23-, 32-, 40-, 47- and 54-Across
• Footprint or loose thread, perhaps
• Investigation aid
• What a loose thread might be
• Object under a magnifying glass, maybe
• Mystery novel element
• What a private eye may eye
• Red herring, maybe
• Crossword feature
• Mr. Green's game
• Tec's tip
• Game played with a lead pipe
• Mr. Boddy's game
• Murder mystery game
• You're reading one now
• Forensics find
• Crime-solving game
• Hint for Holmes
• Where to find Professor Plum
• This, for one
• Evidence found by Charlie Chan
• Game with Mr. Boddy
• Game played with a rope and a lead pipe
• Holmes's discovery
• Lead for Sherlock
• Puzzle piece
• Piece of evidence
• What you are reading right now
• Game featuring Mr. Boddy
• Classic whodunit board game
• Game featuring Professor Plum
• Whodunit hint
• Lead for Charlie Chan
• Board game with Mr. Boddy
• Hint (and a hint to this puzzle's theme)
• Game name
• Board game with suspects
• Game with six colorful characters
• Idea
• Col. Mustard's game
• 1985 movie with three different endings
• Game with a Wrench card
• Detective's find
• Mystery item
• Crime scene find
• Detective game
• Bit of help
• Game with a library and billiard room
• Game with rooms and weapons
• Game with suspect cards
• "Ping-pong item," for 18-Down
• Poirot's find
• Print, perhaps
• Fingerprint, say
• Whodunit plot element
• Tip
• Detective's lead
• Whodunit game
• Whodunit tidbit
• Helpful info
• Inform, with "in"
• Puzzle factor
• Crossword puzzle?
• Mustard and Plum game
• Bit of evidence
• Holmes quest
• You're looking at it
• Game featuring six suspects and six weapons
• Airhead's lack
• What this sentence is
• Colonel Mustard game
• Mrs. Peacock's game
• Board game that became a movie
• One of 39-Across
• This line or the next, e.g.
• Criminal game?
• Mustard is in this game
• This line or the next
• Footprint or thumbprint, perhaps
• Game with Mustard and Plum
• Mystery-novel plot element
• Detective's need
• Game with colorful characters
• Classic board game with a Simpsons variant
• Mystery board game
• Whodunit lead
• Whodunit helper
• Aid for Sherlock
• Problem-solving aid
• Fingerprint, often
• You're looking at one
• Fingerprint, maybe
• Inform, with "in"
• Solver's aid
• Detectives' board game
• What you're reading now
• A ditz hasn't one
• Game with weapon cards
• Whodunit element
• Footprint, e.g.
• Lead for Poirot
• Solving aid
• Sleuth's aid
• Miss Scarlet's game
• Intimation
• Movie based on a board game
• Sleuth's lead
• Sleuthing aid
• Footprint or fingerprint, say
• 1985 film with three different endings
• Board game with accusations
• Gumshoe's find
• Detective's quest
• Lipstick print, maybe
• Unlocking aid
• "Professor Plum in the library with the candlestick" game
• Part of a crossword
• Game played with a rope
• Game with Colonel Mustard
• 1985 film with the line "Two corpses; everything's fine"
• With 52 Down, totally uninformed
• Hint in "Sherlock"
• Hot leads
• Lead for D.B. Russell
• Game with suspicions and accusations
• Investigator's lead
• Sherlock's find
• Part of any good crossword puzzle
• This is one, ironically
• Logic-based board game
• You're reading one
• Help in solving
• The dog that didn't bark, perhaps
• It has nine rooms
• Crossworder's need
• Detective's delight
• Hint for Sherlock
• Puzzle feature
• Muddy footprint, sometimes
• Game with a rope and a candlestick
• This sentence is one.
• Whodunit item
• Help for Holmes
• Crossword staple
• What you're reading
• Aid for a solver
• Given a hint
• Sherlock's need
• Board game name
• Part of the crossword
• Helpful hint
• Solver's help
• Hint in a whodunit
• Space cadet's need?
• Game with a rope
• One of 77 in this puzzle
• Hint for a detective
• Game in which Mr. Boddy has been bumped off
• Fingerprint, to a detective
• What this is
• Nancy Drew's need
• Footprint, to a detective
• "Get a ___!"
• Sleuth's tidbit
• Game in which Mr. Boddy is a victim
• Hunt hint
• One of 78 in front of you
• This is one of 78 here
• Game with suspects, rooms and weapons
• Answer guide?
• Game with suspects
• Tire track, perhaps
• Trace
• What a detective needs to start an investigation
• Lead for a detective
• What this line is
• Board game with Colonel Mustard
• One of many in a crossword
• Game from which the three conclusions are drawn
• Popular mystery board game
• What 3-Down is
• Part of a crossword puzzle
• One of many in this crossword
• Certain board game
• What 23-Across is, ironically
• Puzzle-solving aid
• Frente song that gives a hint?
• Not a "Rock and Roll Crossword" answer
• You're getting a musical one now
• Murder-mystery board game
• Dramarama "Haven't Got a ___"
• Oddly coloured lead
• Intimation (like this?)
• This is a reminder to invest pounds
• Crossword aid
• What you're reading at present
• Colluded, oddly, in something like this
• Set with no level of intelligence, like this?
• What you're reading is signal to bear left
• Aid to solving
• Game played with a knife and a rope
• Pointer
• Hint towards solution
• Game played with a knife
• Hint to learner: get in prompt
• Aid to puzzlers
• Hint (for you?)
• (Some) indication
• This is left in potter's equipment
• What's this? Oddly coloured?
• What you have here is no party game
• Game played with a revolver
• Game played with weapons
• A crossword editor has to be very careful when changing one--unlike this puzzle's editor, who was careless four times herein
• Colonel Mustard's milieu
• Popular board game
• Game that involves weapons
• This may lead us to the light
• This is it!
• Odd bits of culture that you see here
• Hint, tip
• This one provides the answer
• Hint to get what this is?
• Signal containing large hint
• Crossword item
• This is oddly coloured
• 49-Across, ironically
• Crossword-solving aid
• 57-Down, for one
• What this is for 1-Down
• Board game that's murder
• Here's your chance to play detective
• It's played with a rope and knife
• Game with six suspects
• Looks a bit like glue, but this isn't a sticky one
• Aid to solving a puzzle
• This, e.g.
• Single hair on a carpet, maybe
• One of 76 in this puzzle
• Game with a colorful cast of characters?
• Colonel Mustard's board game
• Game with nine rooms
• Board game with rooms
• Indication
• Game with six weapons
• It has colorful suspects
• These words
• 1985 movie with three possible endings
• Board game with weapons
• Puzzle aid
• Game with two secret passages
• Helpful information, as from a clause
• Your current reading
• Board game set in a mansion
• Tire track or footprint, perhaps
• One of this puzzle's 144
• Board game with secret passages
• "Not a ___": "No idea"
• Bit of evidence for Sherlock
• Game whose "Discover the Secrets" version includes a baseball bat and a dumbbell
• This one is self-referential
• Board game with a candlestick
• Bit of help for a sleuth
• Game with Mrs. White and Professor Plum
• Something dropped in a mystery novel
• Game that might end in a library
• Pointer to an answer
• Board game with nine rooms
• Game with rooms
• Hint for a sleuth
• This one has five words
• Aid in solving a mystery
• You're reading one right now
• Board game featuring Dr. Orchid
• Crossword puzzle hint
• Game of who, what and where
• With 12-Down, secretly plots (with)
• "I have no ___"
• Mystery-solver's aid
• Game that begins with the murder of Mr. Boddy
• One may be left at the scene of a crime
• Important piece of information in a mystery story
• Hint in a mystery
• Board game with Professor Plum
• Murder mystery boardgame
• Escape room find
• What 44-Down is, ironically
• "Professor Plum, in the library, with the candlestick" board game
• Columbo's tidbit
• Board game with Miss Scarlett
• 1985 mystery film based on a board game
• Fingerprint or footprint, perhaps
• Slightest idea
• Part of any good crossword
• Carpet fiber or human hair, maybe
• Part of a good crossword
• What 55-Across is
• What a good detective needs
• Murder-mystery board game with accusations
• Game with suspect tokens
• Board game with weapons, suspects, and rooms