Answer: SECRET
SECRET is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 88 times.
- Confidential matter
- Closet
- It may be hard for one person to carry
- Hush-hush
- Whispered words
- Spy's quest
- Not meant to be repeated
- Shrouded
- It may be under your hat
- Skeleton in the closet, e.g.
- "The ___ of Nimh" (1982 cartoon)
- Undercover
- Unrevealed
- Not publicly known
- With "The," popular self-help book
- "I've Got a ___" (game show)
- It might be deep and dark
- Confidant's confidence
- Under wraps, so to speak
- Skeleton, so to speak
- Hidden
- Kind of agent
- Confidential item
- Concealed
- Something confidential
- Confidential
- With 55 Across, ''You Bet Your Life'' feature
- Clandestine
- Type of admirer
- Under wraps
- Whispered item
- Covert
- Unknown to many
- It may be hard to keep a juicy one
- Whispered thing
- For only a select few
- Classified
- With 55 Across, "You Bet Your Life" feature
- Ban alternative
- Nothing to write home about?
- Arcane
- Like some documents
- Unknown to but a few
- Mystery
- The untold story?
- With 39-Across, spy
- For your eyes only
- Diary tidbit
- The ____ Of My Success,1987 Fox movie
- With 34-Across, company's present occasion?
- With 74-Across, voting system that affords anonymity ... or the theme of this puzzle?
- It might be hard to keep
- Cloak-and-dagger
- It can be dangerous when leaked
- Known to but a few
- 1994 Madonna song
- It may be told in anger
- Like some identities
- Hidden fact
- Whispered confidence
- Confidence
- Word after top or trade
- Thing between friends
- ___ agent
- Like some handshakes
- Like some handshakes and formulas
- Something only a few people know
- Confidential fact
- It's not for everyone
- You may whisper one to a friend
- It may be hard to keep
- *Tears and others
- Like passwords, ideally
- Something not to tell
- With 37-Across, Election Day practice ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme
- Trade ___ (Coca-Cola's recipe, e.g.)
- It's meant to be kept
- Like Superman's alter ego
- One might be whispered
- Word before "sauce" or "Santa"
- With 35-Across, anonymous voting method, and a hint to each set of circled letters
- When revealed in this puzzle, it reverses the meanings of the answers to the starred clues
- Like some agents and Santas
- Tryst partner / Discharging, as a liquid
- "Shh! It's a ___!"
- With 46-Across, some areas in Clue … or a hint to the first, fourth, twelfth and fifteenth rows of this puzzle
- Like some alter egos
- "Three may keep a ___, if two of them are dead": Benjamin Franklin