MUM

Fall bloom

• ___'s the word

• The word, to secret keepers

• The word

• At times it's the word

• Autumn blossom, briefly

• Big bloom

• Britain's Queen ___

• British family member

• British mother

• British parent

• Buttoned up

• Clammed up

• Close-lipped

• Close-mouthed

• Dad's mate, in Dorchester

• Daisy's cousin

• England's Queen ___

• Fall flower

• Flower, for short

• Hardly blabby

• Hastings household name

• Having sealed lips

• It may be the word

• It might be the word

• It's the word

• It's sometimes the word

• Manchester mother

• Maternal flower?

• Member of a British family

• Mother, in Motherwell

• Mother's flower?

• Not blabbing

• Not saying a thing

• Not saying a word

• Not speaking

• Not talking

• Not verbalizing

• Ornamental flower, for short

• Oxeye daisy, for one

• Queen ___

• Quiet

• Saying nothing

• Short flower

• Silent

• Speechless

• Taciturn

• The word, as suggested by the saying formed by the ends of this puzzle's four longest answers

• The word, if you're silent

• The word, maybe

• The word, often

• The word, sometimes

• This is the word

• Tight-lipped

• Tight-mouthed

• Uncommunicative

• Unspeaking

• With mouth shut

• Of China

• Informal terms for a mother

• Secrecy