elucidate
verb
collections of letters can elucidate what was uppermost in an artist's mind:
explain, make clear, make plain, illuminate, throw/shed light on, clarify;
comment on, interpret, explicate, expound on, gloss, annotate, spell out;
clear up, sort out, resolve, straighten up/out, unravel, untangle.
▷antonyms confuse, obscure.
elucidate Oxford Dictionary of English