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Suspect vague cliques with forgotten question: help me out here! (4,2,1,4)

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I believe the answer is:

give us a clue

'help me out here' is the definition.

'suspect vague cliques with forgotten question' is the wordplay.
'suspect' indicates an anagram (a suspicious or unusual spelling).
'with forgotten' indicates named letters should be taken away.
'question' becomes 'q'.
'vague'+'cliques'='vaguecliques'
'vaguecliques' with 'q' removed is 'vaguecliues'.
'vaguecliues' anagrammed gives 'GIVE US A CLUE'.

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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