Daily Beast Crossword October 20 2025 Answers (10/20/25)

Our Daily Beast Crossword October 20, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

Daily Beast Crossword October 20, 2025 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	Gospel great Winans
5A	"___ Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004 comedy)
10A	Res ___ loquitur (phrase heard in some "Law & Order" scripts)
11A	"Drove my Chevy to the ___ but the ___ was dry" (Don McLean lyric)
12A	Bert who sang "If I Only Had a Brain"
13A	"If ___ Hammer"
14A	Sade's "Is ___ Crime"
15A	Country where Gene Simmons and Gal Gadot were born (abbr.)
16A	With 20-Across: Actress who joined Instagram yesterday with a heartfelt message to further share her battle with Multiple Sclerosis with her many fans
20A	See 16-Across
22A	Laughter syllable
23A	King, to Celine Dion
24A	Zac in "Ricky Stanicky"
27A	HBO series that starred Thomas Jane
28A	They way things are going
29A	"The Seven Year ___" (1955 Marilyn Monroe rom-com)
30A	Spy movie secrets
31A	Bob Dylan or Bob Marley, e.g.
1D	Tennis star Marin who won the US Open men's title in 2014 (and whose last name is spelled the same forward and backward)
2D	S. ___ Merkerson ("Law & Order" and "Chicago Med" actress)
3D	One note
4D	Musical taste
5D	Top-level celeb
6D	Baseball legend Lou
7D	Longoria in 2025's "War of the Worlds"
8D	"Simpsons" character who talkaly-walkaly talks like thisaroonie
9D	"___ with Mussolini" (1999 film starring Cher and Judi Dench)
15D	"___ in the Stream" (Dolly Parton/Kenny Rogers ballad)
17D	Apple hit
18D	Manga series named for its protagonist
19D	Whitney Houston's "All ___"
21D	"___ Is Enough" (1970s-80s ABC family drama)
24D	"And so on"
25D	To and ___
26D	"Turning ___" (2023 Disney/Pixar film featuring the voice of Sandra Oh)
27D	Naughty by Nature's "___ Hop Hooray"

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