| GESTAPO | Suggest a possible case for secret police |
| MINORSUIT | Possible case involving children in clubs, perhaps? |
| STASI | Second volunteer army is raised for secret police |
| SMEUSE | A dialect word, combining the Old French for "secret hiding place" and "smoot", meaning a small hole, for a gap in a fence or hedge for the passing of a rabbit or a hare (6) |
| BUG | A word for an object of dread originally, later a creepy-crawly or minibeast; a harmful micro-organism or viral disease; a gremlin in a computer system; or, a miniature microphone, hidden for secret e |
| SPARTANS | The first recorded use of cryptography for correspondence was used as early as 400 BCE by this ancient people, who employed a cipher device called the scatale for secret communication between military |
| INTEL | Abbreviation of a word for brainpower, used as military slang for secret information (5) |
| CABALS | Word, from Hebrew for "tradition" and a supposedly acronymic name of Charles II's private ministry, for secret cliques, complots or intrigues (6) |
| TOP | Adjective for "secret" in a spy novel |
| AESOP | Suggest a rise for the storyteller (5) |
| SAYHEFTYKID | Suggest a name for the new garbage-handling mascot? |
| HINT | Suggest a clue for this answer (4) |
| PROPOSE | Suggest a matter, for consideration, acceptance, or action. (7) |
| FREEMASONRY | No charge for stonework for secret society practice (11) |
| PUTUPJOB | Suggest a patient person for prearranged conspiracy (3-2,3) |
| SPYGLASS | Telescope for secret agent on a schooner? |
| ASSIGNATION | A singular term lacking in Germany and Spain for secret appointment (11) |
| ASKOUT | Suggest a romantic dinner to hero who left South Korea in a tizz (3,3) |
| SPAFF | Verb Boris Johnson used to suggest a public inquiry would be a waste of money (5) |
| CONNOTE | Suggest a meaning |
