- TRUTH
- Abolitionist Sojourner
- To Tell the ___
- I'm not frontin'
- You're singing my tune
- Straight dope
- Matter of fact?
- Veritas
- Factual basis
- Dare alternative in a party game
- Madonna's "____ or Dare"
- Lie detector determination, in theory
- With 16-Down, quiz show hosted by Ralph Edwards
- Firm fact
- It may be naked, plain, or awful
- Madonna's "___ or Dare"
- What some seekers seek
- Sometimes it hurts
- Beauty, to Keats
- What some serum elicits?
- Liar's undoing
- The __ is out there: "The X-Files" catchphrase
- Alternative to dare
- Word in a court oath
- Factual statement
- Actuality
- It's a fact
- Something verified
- Its "final test" is ridicule, per Mencken
- Reality
- It's no lie
- Contents of some kernels
- Tell the __ (don't lie)
- Fact
- Pilate's question, "What is ___?"
- Keats' synonym for beauty.
- Integrity.
- Genuineness.
- The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.
- Keats' definition of beauty.
- Philosopher's quest.
- Of a ___ (certainly).
- Poet's "beauty."
- Established principle.
- Fiction's vis-à-vis.
- Kind of serum
- Verity
- White chrysanthemum
- See 6 Down
- Veracity
- This sometimes hurts
- Abolitionist Sojourner ___
- Consequence's alternative
- Consequences' partner
- Veridicality
- Gospel
- Sojourner ___ (women's-rights activist who asked "Ain't I a woman?" in a famous 1851 speech)
- Ain't it the ___?!
- Ministry of ___, in "1984"
- The ___ is out there (catchphrase on "The X-Files")
- Tell it to the judge
- What a saw often has
- It's "rarely pure and never simple," Oscar Wilde once wrote
- It's "rarely pure and never simple," per Oscar Wilde
- See 53-Across
- Agreed!
- Subject of some philosophical inquiry
- Not a lie
- Honest Seether song?
- Neil Young "___ Be Known"
- That's a fact, Jack!
- It's beauty, according to Keats
- What really happened
- Tell all the ___ but tell it slant: Emily Dickinson
- It's unvarnished
- Ain't I a Woman? deliverer Sojourner
- It's often hard to tell
- Objective fact
- Accuracy
- Dare alternative
- It may be unvarnished
- It's stranger than fiction
- It may be stranger than fiction
- ___ be told . . .
- Reality show?
- The way it is
- Defamation defense
- Demand from a trial witness