The word "clue" originally meant "ball of twine."
That's why you unravel clues to solve a mystery...
Word Origin & History
clue
phonetic variant of clew (q.v.) "a ball of thread or yarn," with reference to the one Theseus used as a guide out of the Labyrinth. The purely figurative sense of "that which points the way" is from 1620s.
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