It's meant to be kept Crossword Clue

• "It's a ___!"

  New York Times · Thursday, April 16, 2026 · 6 letters

• "Three may keep a ___, if two of them are dead": Benjamin Franklin

  New York Times · Sunday, August 25, 2024 · 6 letters

• With 46-Across, some areas in Clue … or a hint to the first, fourth, twelfth and fifteenth rows of this puzzle

  New York Times · Thursday, April 11, 2024 · 6 letters

• Tryst partner / Discharging, as a liquid

  New York Times · Sunday, May 22, 2022 · 6 letters

• When revealed in this puzzle, it reverses the meanings of the answers to the starred clues

  New York Times · Wednesday, September 29, 2021 · 6 letters

• Hush-hush

  New York Times · Monday, March 1, 2021 · 6 letters

• Clandestine

  New York Times · Sunday, February 25, 2018 · 6 letters

• Like some handshakes and formulas

  New York Times · Tuesday, December 26, 2017 · 6 letters

• Confidence

  New York Times · Saturday, June 20, 2015 · 6 letters

• Under wraps

  New York Times · Wednesday, September 25, 2013 · 6 letters

More clues from this crossword

• 40-Across Computing pioneer Lovelace
• 41-Across Made a peeling?
• 41-Down So last year
• 42-Across Sound, e.g.
• 42-Down ___ crest (part of the pelvis)
• 43-Across Rubella, by another name
• 44-Down Granny, in the South
• 46-Across Suffix with "most," redundantly
• 47-Across Item sometimes made with pikake flowers
• 48-Across Director DuVernay
• 49-Down Scooter brand whose name means "wasp"
• 50-Down Crime in insurance investigations