Related Clues:

• "A __ technicality"
• Nude
• "___ words cannot express . . ."
• Outright
• Hardly figurative
• Paris parent
• "A ___ formality!"
• "A ___ pittance!"
• "... for a ___ pittance"
• Like undecorated walls
• Not metaphorical
• Word with "mortals" or "formality"
• Word before "pittance"
• It often precedes technicalities
• Like some essentials