| SWORN | ___ to secrecy |
| NDAS | Contracts binding to secrecy (abbr.) |
| SILENCE | Since binding the French to secrecy (7) |
| DONTASK | "I'm sworn to secrecy" |
| NDA | Commitment to secrecy, for short |
| SPEAL | In Holyrood shoulder obligation to secrecy when holding power |
| SECRETSOCIETY | An organisation whose members are sworn to secrecy about its activities (6,7) |
| YOUNEVERCANTELL | Having been sworn to secrecy when appearances are deceptive (3,5,3,4) |
| SEMINAL | Minister, bound by an obligation to secrecy, is imaginative (7) |
| DEARN | Democrat to make secrecy out of date |
| SEARCHING | Overarching secrecy leads to investigation (9) |
| HUSHMONEY | Payment to ensure secrecy (4,5) |
| SECURITYBLANKET | A child gets attached to this secrecy (8,7) |
| FRANCIS | Pope, mostly open and straightforward, starts to change institutional secrecy? |
| STEALTHESHOW | Question on secrecy at test centre has to get the most attention (5,3,4) |
| CODES | Systems of words, letters, figures or symbols used to represent others for secrecy or brevity |
| CYANIDE | In secrecy, an idea to give poison (7) |
| RECYCLE | Secrecy clearly surrounding a way to combat consumerism? |
| BITOFAMYSTERY | Shrouded in secrecy, for example, little duck fat mostly added to processed meat (3,2,1,7) |
| STEALTH | The last sort of word to define secrecy |
