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Forensic
evidence
maybe
dental
occasionally
(3)
Forensic evidence maybe dental occasionally (3)
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How the clue works
Look at dental and take "occasionally" as the instruction to pick out every other letter, so you get D, N, A from D-e-N-t-A-l. The definition is Forensic evidence maybe, and the "maybe" is there because it's only one example of the sort of thing a crime scene might yield.