signpost

viitoittaa

tienviitta a post bearing a sign that gives information on directions
puhekieltä A word or phrase within a clue that serves as an indicator, rather than being fodder.
2012, David Astle, Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words

In the first example — Dance revolutionised Burma — you know the middle word is the signpost as revolutionised is too long to be the fodder (or letters to scramble). (..) And bang, out jumps RUMBA.

The route wasnt signposted, and we got lost on the way.''

We believe that some Carers' Centres already offer an effective 'first stop shop' for signposting carers to local organisations, services and benefits, and for providing ongoing support as carers' circumstances change.

Bede, never one to shrink from a challenge, focused his energies not only onto calculating Easter but also onto describing why the maths mattered as much as the result. In this, his elevated rhetoric is balanced by a very human enthusiasm — it's hard not to love a writer who signposts his core hypotheses with phrases such as 'now to gut the bowels of this question!'