- NAKED
- The ___ and the Dead
- In the buff
- Bare
- Unvarnished, as truth
- Buff
- Unclothed
- Uncovered
- Unadorned
- In one's birthday suit
- ... to go ___ is the best disguise: William Congreve
- Like a bulb with no lampshade, say
- Not at all adorned
- In the altogether
- In the raw
- Ready to streak
- Wearing no clothes
- ___ Lunch (William S. Burroughs novel)
- Sans clothing
- Word before ravioli or eye
- ___ as a jaybird
- Lacking threads?
- In the buff (and a hint to the first word in 17-, 31-, 48-, and 65-Across)
- Lacking tops and bottoms
- Butt-ass ___
- How you might feel if you go out without your phone
- Like a jaybird?
- Blunt, as truth
- Without threads
- Stripped
- Starkers, across the pond
- Like a newborn
- How some sleep
- Au naturel
- Ready to skinny-dip
- Unassisted peeper
- Like undisguised truth
- Starkers, on this side of the pond
- Undisguised
- Defenseless
- Unprotected
- The __ Gun (Nielsen film)
- Frequent adjective for "truth"
- Unfurnished
- Unvarnished
- Plain-spoken
- Without decoration.
- Exposed
- Topless and bottomless
- The ___ truth. —Love's Labors Lost.
- Unsheathed.
- Smockless.
- Unclad.
- Half of Mailer's book title.
- Open to attack.
- Plain.
- As one begins life.
- Stark.
- ___ Came the Stranger.
- Fully apparent
- Kind of truth
- The ___ Ape
- Word with truth
- Stark follower
- Like Goya's "Maja"
- Fast's "The ___ God"
- Nude
- The ___ Spur, 1953 film
- The ___ and the Dead: Mailer
- In an embarrassing position, maybe
- Truth modifier
- Without a stitch
- Without a stitch on
- Having nothing obscured
- In one's natural state
- In the flesh?
- Out of gear?
- Obvious, as ambition
- Like a jaybird, in an idiom
- Like streakers
- Plain for all to see
- With 13-Down, means of viewing sans telescope
- Unembellished, as the truth
- On a streak?
- Debriefed?
- Missing more than mittens
- NZ alt-rock band The ___ and Famous
- Talking Heads album for the buff?
- Covered with nothing
- The _____ Maja (Goya painting)
- The _____ and the Dead (1958)
- Starkers, to a Brit
- Like skinny-dippers
- Word with truth or ambition
- Baring more than one's soul
- Be this to be compared to a jaybird
- Like a jaybird, perhaps
- Without clothes
- Totally exposed
- With nothing on
- With not a stitch on
- Baring it all
- Skinny-dipping, say
- Completely exposed
- See 6-Down
- Mailer's "The ___ and the Dead"
- Like a jaybird, colloquially
- Kind of prey in a Cornel Wilde film title
- Like every newborn
- Devoid of clothing
- Like Lady Godiva
- Like a skinny-dipper
- Like crowds of people in Spencer Tunick photos
- Undressed
- Streaking, say
- Not in stitches?
- David Sedaris bestseller
- Opposite of well-dressed?
- Like the original Greek gymnasts
- Not in gear?
- Hardly well-dressed
