tell tale signs
- cluesHints toward answers
- hintsIndirect suggestions
- giveawayFree item or betraying clue
- warningAlert about danger
- red flagsIndicators something's wrong
symptoms · indicators · evidence · signals · traces · fingerprints · footprints · smoking gun · breadcrumbs · reveals · betrays · suspicious · obvious · unmistakable · dead giveaway · tipoff · marks · patterns
evidentiary clarity
tell tale signsred herrings
Misleading clues or information
mixed signals · noise · coincidences · circumstantial evidence
revelation vs. concealment
tell tale signsconcealment
Act of hiding something
cover-up · disguise · camouflage · smokescreens · misdirection