Crossword puzzle clue "didn't exactly answer as a question"

Didn't exactly answer, as a question

Answer, when pointing to this answer, to the question "Which letters answer this clue?"

Latin phrase that means "exactly" but you only use it when you're saying "not exactly"

Didn't exactly say

Garbo didn't say it, exactly

You didn't exactly hear it from Weissmuller

Didn't show, didn't place

"What we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't," according to Erica Jong