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Answer for the clue "Clairvoyance of backer, before quote read out ", 12 letters:
second sight

Word definitions for second sight in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Second Sight was a commercial bulletin board system (BBS) program written by Scott Watson for the Apple Macintosh . It was the second program from Watson, the first being the Red Ryder terminal emulator . When first released it was known as Red Ryder Host ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses [syn: clairvoyance , extrasensory perception , E.S.P. , ESP ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Sometimes Jean thought her daughter was fey, had second sight . ▪ The idea had power and second sight .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. ESP, an additional sense beyond the five normal ones, clairvoyance.

Usage examples of second sight.

As I took the second sight, the needle began to drift, and the meter dropped to zero.

She, without second sight, without any gift at all, had fallen into sickness instead.

Near by were some open graves, ready to receive their occupants, while a little farther on he recognized the Cortlandt mausoleum, looking exactly as when shown him, through his second sight, by the spirit on the previous day.

I remember using every grain of second sight that I might possess when I looked at her, and a deep spell overtook me.

If I'd had the second sight Dolores claimed to have, I might've spent a pill on that son of a bitch.

That old prophet of a Molimo has the second sight, or something like it, and he does not hide his opinion, but keeps chuckling away in that dreadful place, and piping out his promises of ill to be.