Secretive org. Crossword Clue

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CIA

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THECIA

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(noun)
1. the United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign intelligence information

Hint 2: Clue Definition

SECRETIVE (adjective)
1. inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

CIA
(3 letters)
THECIA
(6 letters)

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Across

1. At the peak of

5. Drinks are sometimes put on them

9. Polyphemus, for one

16. Money saved for golden yrs.

19. Slight

20. Razor brand

21. Burst

22. “___ mezzo del cammin di nostra vita...” (start of Dante’s “Inferno”)

23. Source of pressure, sometimes

24. DEA agent on the Penn campus?

26. Snoop’s “Deep Cover” collaborator

27. Get baked

29. Meadows

30. Affectionate farewell

32. First name in fashion

33. "Phooey!"

34. Touchy subject

35. Put on the back burner

38. Golf’s Hogan

39. Not barefoot

40. Places for props

41. Cheering raucously

42. Willem of “Poor Things”

44. Soldiers of yore

46. Inventory of snarky observations?

48. Daily delivery

50. Scattershot

53. Reality competition originally hosted by Anderson Cooper

54. Windows precursor

56. Alarm

57. Tracking devices

59. Hoedown holler

61. Singer from County Donegal

62. EMT specialty

65. Court divider?

66. Scale used at birth

68. Research facility

70. Simple file extension

71. Spiny-leaved plant

73. Fishing boat

75. GPS tech

78. Highlighter shades

80. Duck

81. Clasping accessories

84. 2001 Sean Penn movie

86. Milhouse’s crush

87. Detroit player who’s a snappy dresser?

89. Cancún’s peninsula

91. Joe with four World Series rings

93. Cutting-edge

94. Smallville gal

96. ___-ho

97. Luau staple

98. Scottish sprout

99. Deep-fried rice balls

101. Dance component

103. Skirmish

104. 1997 Ethan Hawke sci-fi film

105. Precious

106. Hole in the head

110. Longtime English record label

111. Deepfake image?

114. Equipped

115. Carnaval site

116. Ennoble

117. Sty sound

118. New driver, typically

119. IRS ID

120. Library section

121. Forest denizens of Middle-earth

122. Olympic archer?

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Down

1. Concert equipment

2. Abound

3. Sandwich snack

4. Like a night owl?

5. Broke, in slang

6. Colleague of Porthos

7. Oxonian, for one

8. James’s “Rebel Without a Cause” co-star

9. Jon of "Pretty in Pink"

10. Coffee brand originally made for Christmas

11. PC cores

12. Superiors to sgts.

13. Viewpoint

14. Purchase before release

15. Wait on

16. Necklace worn by an iconic Harrison Ford character?

17. Transplant

18. Alaskan natives

25. Grassy plain

28. Ordinary joe

31. Gist

33. Adroit

34. Site of an 1862 battle

35. Tic-toe go-between

36. “I smell ___!”

37. Greedy choice, maybe

38. Less honorable

39. Web designers

42. Ready to be checked for cataracts

43. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, with eight acting awards?

45. More, in Mexico

47. Rich deposits

49. Offshore

51. Pointy-horned antelope

52. Impossible Burger's lack

55. Square with soup

58. Smoothing out

60. Abated

62. Child’s entreaty

63. Entreaty

64. Canada, with all of its wide-open spaces?

67. Coat rack parts

69. Character with a broken chair

72. Following as a result

74. Historic Honolulu palace

76. Pong maker

77. Dinner companion who might gag you with a spoon?

79. Baglike structure

82. Iranian currency

83. Fizzy drink

85. Place that might produce a rabbit

87. Plummet

88. Arya’s father, on “Game of Thrones”

90. Ingredient in some health food store capsules

92. Show with soli

94. Some brews

95. Colleague of Porthos

98. Distresses severely

100. “It’s a Wonderful Life” director

101. Smooth transition

102. Diamond protectors?

103. False move

105. Colors

106. Watered-down

107. Taxi alternative

108. Laine of jazz

109. Counting method

113. “The Pit and the Pendulum” writer

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