| TOPSECRETFILE | Principal with skeleton in the cupboard is put in The Cabinet? That's Classified! (3,6,4) |
| ASSORTED | Mixed academy and school? That's classified! (8) |
| CLOSEST | Shirt on top in the cupboard is dearest (7) |
| FILED | Put in the cabinet |
| FILE | Put in the cabinet |
| SECRETBALLOTS | "Privately, they elect political leaders with skeletons in the cupboards" - it's all over introduction to Big Issue (6,7) |
| TOPSECRET | Corruption of street cop? That's classified (3,6) |
| SCANDALS | Top cobbler in footwear with skeletons in the closet (8) |
| ANAT | Subj. with skeletons in the closet?: Abbr. |
| PERSONALAD | Absent individual, for starters, working on the horses? That's presumably classified! (8,2) |
| SECRET | Classified! (6) |
| LETOUTASECRET | Give the game away to the European ticket-seller with a skeleton in the cupboard (3,3,1,6) |
| LEADINGASTRAY | Principal with a lost dog is setting a bad example (7,6) |
| CAKESANDALE | 1930 novel by British author Somerset Maugham subtitled or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (5,3,3) |
| CLOSET | The cupboard is shut the time after (6) |
| SCANDAL | Skeleton in the cupboard; ignominy (7) |
| DARKSECRET | A shady skeleton in the cupboard? (4,6) |
| SECRETOR | Skeleton in the cupboard, or gland, say? (8) |
| RIGHTHONOURABLE | OK for lord to keep posh artist in the cabinet? (5,10) |
| AMEX | My card for this co. is gold and ends in the following numbe--jk, that's classified info |