Daily Beast Crossword December 22 2025 Answers (12/22/25)

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Daily Beast Crossword December 22, 2025 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	With 6-Across: "SNL" castmember forced to read his annual Christmas jokes alone this past Saturday night since 12-Across didn't write any (wink-wink)
6A	See 6-Across
10A	Yemeni's neighbor
11A	Nine ___ Nails
12A	He wrote the sick burn on 1-Across, who was forced on Saturday's show to say the quote at 30-Across: "New research shows that millions of women leave the work force due to menopause...which means there’s only a couple years left on my ___"
14A	Suit to ___ (be perfect)
15A	Graduates
16A	Highways (abbr.)
18A	"We don't discriminate"
19A	"Without further ___......"
22A	Bank convenience
24A	Prize won by "The Remains of the Day" novelist Kazuo Ishiguro in 2017
26A	Part of SATB
30A	Line 1-Across read live: "
32A	Fruit that goes in a coconut, in a Harry Nilsson song
33A	Way through an airplane
34A	Those women, in Oaxaca
35A	Kathy with the memorable movie line: "He didn't get out of the cock-a-doody car!"
1D	Common soap opera plot twist
2D	Leave out
3D	"Arsenic and Old ___" (1944 crime comedy)
4D	"___ Shoes" (2005 romcom starring Cameron Diaz)
5D	Long or DaCosta
6D	Scott who released the 2015 album "Woman"
7D	When signaled
8D	Joe ___ (average guy)
9D	Nancy Sinatra's "___ Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
13D	"___ of Eden" (John Steinbeck novel)
17D	Tyne with a Tony (and six Emmys)
19D	It's often 90 degrees
20D	Day of Old Hollywood
21D	"Dreams of my Father" autobiographer
23D	Soprano Callas
25D	"___ Bayou" (1997 Jurnee Smollett drama)
27D	"Star Wars: Episode VIII - The ____ Jedi"
28D	Scrabble piece
29D	Small bills
31D	Hunter in 1958's "Damn Yankees"

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