hints

Strongest matches

• advice
• announcement
• clue
• evidence
• idea
• implication
• impression
• information
• inkling
• intimation
• mention
• notion
• reference
• reminder
• scent
• sign
• suspicion
• symptom
• taste
• tinge
• tip
• trace
• warning
• whiff
• whisper
• wink
• wrinkle

Strong matches

• adumbration
• allusion
• communication
• connotation
• denotation
• glimmering
• help
• inference
• innuendo
• insinuation
• iota
• lead
• notice
• observation
• omen
• pointer
• print
• signification
• smattering
• telltale
• tip-off
• token

Weak matches

• flea in ear
• word to wise

Strongest matches

• advise
• allude to
• broach
• imply
• inform
• mention
• refer to
• remind
• touch on

Strong matches

• acquaint
• adumbrate
• angle
• apprise
• coax
• connote
• cue
• drop
• expose
• fish
• foreshadow
• impart
• infer
• insinuate
• intimate
• leak
• make
• point
• prefigure
• press
• prompt
• recall
• shadow
• signify
• solicit
• spring
• whisper
• wink

Weak matches

• bring up
• give an inkling
• jog memory
• let it be known
• let out of bag
• put flea in ear
• say in passing
• tip off
• tip one's hand