Daily Beast Crossword January 18 2026 Answers (1/18/26)

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Daily Beast Crossword January 18, 2026 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	Person in charge of lighting, on movie set
7A	"Austin Powers: The ___ Who Shagged Me" (Mike Myers hit)
10A	Eddie Murray or Cal Ripken Jr, back in the day
11A	Mai ___ (cocktail)
12A	Actor who recently reminisced to the Hollywood Reporter about an incident on the 1998 set of 26-Across
14A	Styx's "Come ___ Away"
15A	"Drove my Chevy to the ___..."
16A	Word in many Olympics events
17A	One of the Jolie-Pitt kids
21A	Less friendly
22A	Some are essential
26A	1998 movie starring 12-Across in which, as he revealed in the recent Hollywood Reporter interview, he was vomiting between takes on the scene where Bruce Willis is sacrificing himself to save planet Earth
28A	A thousand thou
29A	Airborne Earhart
30A	"You don't have the guts to do it," when texting
31A	Snooping (around)
1D	A whole bunch (of)
2D	___ 51 (military video game)
3D	"Et voila!"
4D	New horse
5D	2005 movie where Will Ferrell says: "I just like to smile, smiling's my favorite"
6D	With "The": #1 hit for Duran Duran
7D	Mr. Buscemi
8D	Any member of Indiana's NBA team
9D	"My goodness!"
13D	"___ the Right One In" (2008 Swedish horror movie)
16D	Freeman or Fairchild
17D	City celebrated in a "Golden Girls" song
18D	Pungent-tasting
19D	___ lit (like some basements)
20D	Org. seen in "Traffic"
22D	Poems that may be dedicated to someone
23D	Savory Indian rice cake
24D	Word before cloth or chop
25D	Unanticipated problem
27D	___ rap (music genre)

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