- SECRET
- Hush-hush
- It might be leaked
- Trade ___
- Undisclosed
- Hidden, as eight related pieces in the grid
- Privileged info
- Like many C.S.I.S and C.I.A. files
- Diary tidbit
- It's public when it's open
- Under wraps
- Confidence
- Skeleton in the closet, e.g.
- The ___ of Nimh (1982 cartoon)
- Undercover
- Whispered words
- Not publicly known
- Unrevealed
- I've Got a ___ (game show)
- With "The," popular self-help book
- Like passwords or passcodes
- The ___ Garden
- Confidential manner
- Confidential matter
- Skeleton, so to speak
- Whispered item
- Back-room
- It's not for everyone
- Kind of agent
- Hidden
- Confidant's confidence
- Under wraps, so to speak
- For only a select few
- Whispered thing
- It may be told in anger
- Word after top or trade
- Confidential
- It may be hard to keep
- Like passwords, ideally
- With 37-Across, Election Day practice ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme
- Like Superman's alter ego
- With 35-Across, anonymous voting method, and a hint to each set of circled letters
- Like some agents and Santas
- Like some alter egos
- Cryptic
- Something to keep
- I've Got a __
- Clandestine
- Like some ballots
- Something to whisper
- Concealed
- Confidential item
- Something confidential
- For your eyes only
- Confidential fact
- Something not to tell
- Not to be shared, in a way
- Kept from circulating
- Something you shouldn't spill
- [Redacted]
- Classified
- Private
- Underground
- It might be deep and dark
- Brand behind becauseyourehot.com
- Covert.
- Conrad's "___ Agent."
- Top ___.
- Unknown.
- Walter Mitty's life.
- Edward Rochester had one.
- Security classification.
- Something hard to keep.
- Subject of Garry Moore's program.
- Panel show theme.
- Inscrutable.
- Under one's hat.
- Untold knowledge.
- Sub rosa.
- Class above confidential
- Spy's stock-in-trade
- Step above confidential
- Teller's offering
- Arcane
- Christie's "The ___ of Chimneys": 1925
- Skeleton in the closet
- Occult
- Christie's "The ___ Adversary"
- Retired
- Furtive
- Esoteric
- Like some identities
- Closet
- It may be hard for one person to carry
- Not meant to be repeated
- Spy's quest
- Shrouded
- It may be under your hat
- Nothing to write home about?
- With 34-Across, company's present occasion?
- With 74-Across, voting system that affords anonymity ... or the theme of this puzzle?
- It can be dangerous when leaked
- Like some handshakes and formulas
- It's meant to be kept
- When revealed in this puzzle, it reverses the meanings of the answers to the starred clues
- Three may keep a ___, if two of them are dead: Benjamin Franklin
- With 46-Across, some areas in Clue ... or a hint to the first, fourth, twelfth and fifteenth rows of this puzzle
- Ban alternative
- With 39-Across, spy
- Rockers ___ and Whisper
- Word with Santa or police
- Top end?
- Type of admirer
- One might be whispered
- Word before "sauce" or "Santa"
- Kind of agent or ballot
- Unknown to many
- Cloak-and-dagger
- You may whisper one to a friend
- *Tears and others
- Trade ___ (Coca-Cola's recipe, e.g.)
- Can you keep a ___?
- Not generally known
- Kind of code
- It may be hard to keep a juicy one
- Something a gossip can't keep
- Shh! It's a ___!
- Deodorant brand
- Something kept in confidence
- Spy's find
- Ban competition
- Like some office Santas
- Dossier stamp
- Like some formulas and identities
- Stamp on a dossier
