| VERITY | It's the truth and it's hugely inspiring (6) |
| EARTHSHATTERING | It's perhaps heartbreaking but it's hugely important (5-10) |
| GOSPEL | It's the truth! I'm in this Italian river and the leg's broken! (6) |
| ONOATH | The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth said this way to Noah (2,4) |
| ISWEAR | "It's the truth, really!": 2 wds. |
| HONEST | 'It's the truth!' |
| DHARMA | Universal truth and one of the "three jewels" in Buddhism (6) |
| TINA | Brown who wrote "The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor-the Truth and the Turmoil" (2022) |
| AJAYER | British philosopher and author of the influential 1936 book on logical positivism, Language, Truth and Logic (1,1,4) |
| BUDDHA | Born Siddhartha Gautama into a royal family, the founder of a religion based on karma, the "four noble truths" and attaining nirvana (6) |
| INDEED | Seen in truth and in exploit (6) |
| IDLING | Wasting time producing papers not telling the truth and leaving out the end of story (6) |
| ITONYA | 2017 film whose title character says, "Everyone has their own truth, and life just does whatever the fuck it wants" |
| SPINATALE | Embellish the truth, and what the sets of circled letters do? |
| COLLYER | Host Bud of To Tell the Truth and Beat the Clock |
| PRICKLIEST | Most of the charge is for knowing leader - it belies the truth and this time it's most annoying (10) |
| SAHL | He quipped "Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan can't tell the difference" |
| OR | Truth ___ dare is a slumber party game that challenges a player to choose between telling the truth and taking a chance |
| SERUMS | Truth and blood |
| PHILOSOPHY | The rational investigation of the truths and principles of knowledge, reality, and human conduct |
