| SOMETHINGTOHIDE | Skeleton in the closet, e.g. |
| SECRET | Skeleton in the closet, e.g. |
| SECRETS | Skeletons in the closet, e.g. |
| MESS | McGee's closet, e.g. |
| NINTH | One in a series admitted to a skeleton in the closet (5) |
| SCANDAL | A skeleton in the closet and cocaine in shoe (7) |
| BACKGROUNDCHECK | It might reveal a skeleton in the closet |
| ANAT | Class with a skeleton in the closet?: Abbr. |
| DEEPSECRET | Skeleton in the closet, maybe |
| OPENSECRET | It's common knowledge, Frank has a skeleton in the closet (4,6) |
| DIRTYLINEN | Skeletons in the closet try rattling chain in uproar (5,5) |
| SCANDALS | Top cobbler in footwear has skeletons in the closet (8) |
| PASTS | Skeletons in the closet, so to speak |
| DEEPDARKSECRETS | Skeletons in the closet |
| AMONGTHELIVING | Anthrax album that's home to Skeletons In The Closet (5,3,6) |
| LETOUTASECRET | Give the game away to the European ticket-seller with a skeleton in the cupboard (3,3,1,6) |
| TOPSECRETFILE | Principal with skeleton in the cupboard is put in The Cabinet? That's Classified! (3,6,4) |
| HOPE | Name of the blue whale skeleton in the entrance hall of London's Natural History Museum (4) |
| CAKESANDALE | 1930 novel by British author Somerset Maugham subtitled or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (5,3,3) |
| LOOFAH | A skeleton in the bathroom! (6) |
