Daily Beast Crossword June 25 2025 Answers (6/25/25)

Our Daily Beast Crossword June 25, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

Daily Beast Crossword June 25, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving the Daily Beast Crossword on 6/25/25, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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#	Clue
1A	"X-Men" movies role for Sir Ian McKellen, who turns 86 today
8A	Sir Ian won the 1980 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for this drama, in which he played Antonio Salieri
9A	Season-ending shows
10A	Neither Dem. nor Rep., often
11A	Small drink
13A	"One Day ___ Time (1970s-80s sitcom)
14A	"____ of Eden" (James Dean movie)
17A	David Bowie's "The Man Who ___ the World"
19A	Here, in French
20A	"Flow Joe" singer ___ Joe
22A	Another name for the Sun
23A	"___ III" (1995 film starring Sir Ian; it's a Shakespeare play re-imagined in 1930s England)
26A	New hire
27A	Parts of many electronic appliances
1D	Organized crime groups
2D	"I'm not much into health food, I ___ champagne" ("Escape (the Piña Colada Song)" lyric)
3D	Iconic role for Sir Ian in the "Lord of the Rings" series
4D	What an employee may need to sign, briefly
5D	Slippery as an ___
6D	One day before Wed.
7D	Davis in "Grumpy Old Men"
12D	Fellow Italian
15D	Film ___ (certain musician)
16D	Squiggles over some n's, in Spanish
18D	Pub game
21D	Car roller
24D	Drake's "___ I"
25D	Casual greetings

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