I can unlock antique doors without a notch, staff a vessel with a bare minimum crew, and conceal dark family secrets inside a bedroom closet. Strip away my flesh on Halloween night and what am I?
A skeleton
Wordplay on 'skeleton key', 'skeleton crew', 'skeletons in the closet', and the bony Halloween figure.
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