Answer: SECRET
SECRET is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 88 times.
Referring Clues:
- 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
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - September 24, 2024
 - New York Times - August 25, 2024
 - LA Times - July 10, 2024
 - New York Times - April 11, 2024
 - USA Today - July 28, 2023
 - USA Today - August 17, 2022
 - New York Times - May 22, 2022
 - LA Times - February 02, 2022
 - New York Times - September 29, 2021
 - LA Times - September 27, 2021
 - USA Today - September 23, 2021
 - USA Today - September 07, 2021
 - USA Today - July 30, 2021
 - LA Times - June 19, 2021
 - New York Times - May 26, 2021
 - New York Times - March 01, 2021
 - LA Times - February 18, 2021
 - Universal - January 26, 2021
 - LA Times - January 12, 2021
 - LA Times - November 03, 2020
 
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