Daily Beast Crossword May 18 2025 Answers (5/18/25)

Our Daily Beast Crossword May 18, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

Daily Beast Crossword May 18, 2025 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	Tom Petty's "A Face in the ___"
6A	Curtin seen on the "Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special" on February 15th
10A	Houston coll.
11A	Guy who looks a lot like Borat
12A	Have ___ one's veins (be unflappable)
13A	Rabanne of fashion
14A	Show whose 16th season's finale aired on Friday
16A	Autograph seeker's tool
17A	Charged particle
18A	Org.
19A	Korn's "___ Going Crazy?"
22A	Dallas Mavericks co-owner who hosted 14-Across for 14 seasons, but decided to leave the show after this season because it's "time to move on"
25A	"The Dead ___" (1983 movie based on a 1979 Stephen King novel)
26A	Cold War worry
27A	Poker pot starter
28A	Like the music in horror movies
29A	Dean of "Lois & Clark"
30A	Let go
1D	Like rice cakes
2D	Nouveau ___
3D	Frank or Billy
4D	Peter who directed "Witness" and "Dead Poets Society"
5D	2017 Best Picture nominee
6D	Country where "Lost in Translation" is set
7D	Rickman or Cumming
8D	"Love Is Blind" co-host Lachey
9D	Nwodim of "Mr. Throwback"
15D	Show whose judges have included Gail Simmons and Wolfgang Puck
18D	"___ Book" (2018 Best Picture winner)
19D	Be ___ (say nothing interesting)
20D	First Lady Eisenhower
21D	Phrase added to the end of fortune cookie fortunes to make them funny
22D	Novelist Simpson
23D	Far from pro-
24D	Taxi alternative
25D	Mr. Efron

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