CodyCross October 16, 2025 Daily Answers
Both daily grids for this date — 21 midsize and 11 small clues.
EnglishMidsize Crossword — 21 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | A nanny one might be in a teddy bear | CAM | 3 | |
| #2 | Abel's brother | CAIN | 4 | |
| #3 | Ad __, done as necessary or when needed | HOC | 3 | |
| #4 | American drummer who collaborated with Prince | SHEILA E | 8 | |
| #5 | Examine carefully | INSPECT | 7 | |
| #6 | Fungal disease of wheat, can be fatal if consumed | ERGOT | 5 | |
| #7 | Ghost, ethereal being | SPIRIT | 6 | |
| #8 | Health and Human Services | HHS | 3 | |
| #9 | His Imperial Highness for short | HIH | 3 | |
| #10 | Internet domain for an international organization | INT | 3 | |
| #11 | Jennifer __, who starred in Friends | ANISTON | 7 | |
| #12 | Nigerian singer, won Grammy for Wait For U collab | TEMS | 4 | |
| #13 | Perfect-10 Romanian gymnast Comaneci | NADIA | 5 | |
| #14 | Rowing tools | OARS | 4 | |
| #15 | Russian Empress between 1730 and 1740 CE | ANNA | 4 | |
| #16 | Selective Service System, initials | SSS | 3 | |
| #17 | Shaking my head, in text | SMH | 3 | |
| #18 | The Chinese word for poetry | SHI | 3 | |
| #19 | Time in school year, anagram of trimmed | MIDTERM | 7 | |
| #20 | WW II era combined Eagles-Steelers NFL team | STEAGLES | 8 | |
| #21 | Wrongdoings, illegal acts | MISDEEDS | 8 |
Small Crossword — 11 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Basketball maneuver, __ dunk | SLAM | 4 | |
| #2 | Collects leaves on a lawn | RAKES | 5 | |
| #3 | Distort, bend | WARP | 4 | |
| #4 | Eddie Murphy's Prince in Coming to America | AKEEM | 5 | |
| #5 | File extension used by Microsoft PowerPoint | PPT | 3 | |
| #6 | Grooves or ditches worn in paths or roads | RUTS | 4 | |
| #7 | Instruction to raise the eyes to the sky | LOOK UP | 7 | |
| #8 | Movie director Von Trier | LARS | 4 | |
| #9 | Relating to the mouth, anatomically | ORAL | 4 | |
| #10 | Will __, actor in Arrested Development, 30 Rock | ARNETT | 6 | |
| #11 | Willy the Roald Dahl chocolatier | WONKA | 5 |
October 16, 2025 — How the Grids Break Down
These are the CodyCross daily crosswords for October 16, 2025, a Thursday. The game publishes two grids every day — a quick small puzzle and a longer midsize one — and this page carries both, 32 clues in total. The longest answer across the pair is SHEILA E at 8 letters.
The daily crosswords sit entirely outside the world-and-group structure of the main game: finishing them does not advance your world progress, and they use their own clue pool. They also lean harder on general knowledge than the themed worlds do, so the letter count shown on each row is often the fastest way in — match the length first, then the meaning.
Neighbouring dates are linked below, and the full daily archive holds 2,006 dates. For the main game, the world index covers 108 worlds and 10,716 puzzles.
Dailies Around Oct 16
October 16, 2025 — Questions
What are the CodyCross daily answers for October 16, 2025?
What is the difference between the small and midsize grids?
Does the daily crossword reset?
Where can I find another date?
3 Tips for CodyCross
The board is the whole puzzle
Every answer is built from what the level actually shows you and nothing else. Counting that first rules out most of what comes to mind, which is quicker than trying words and being rejected.
Place the longest answer first
Long answers use up the awkward letters and leave a set that spells the short ones out for you. Starting long is consistently faster than sweeping for three-letter words.
Neighbouring levels are the best hint
Difficulty climbs gradually rather than in jumps, so the levels either side of a hard one reuse its patterns. They are more useful than any hint the game sells you.
How to Solve a CodyCross Level
The order that clears a board fastest.
Read what you are given
Letters, tiles or clues — count them before you start. That constraint is the strongest filter you have.
Anchor with the answers you are sure of
Each confirmed answer narrows the ones it touches, so the easy entries are worth the first minute.
Work outwards
Follow the chain from what you have placed rather than jumping around the board.
Verified Answers, Not Guesses
How we verify these answers
Every answer on this page is read from the game's own puzzle data rather than retyped from another site, and is checked against what the board actually provides — so nothing listed can use a letter the level does not give you. The counts shown are computed from the stored data, not typed in by hand.
Reviewed by Priya Raghunathan, Word Games Editor at Puzzle Solved. The full checking routine is in the methodology, and the standards every page is held to are in the editorial policy.
Last checked — Aug 30, 2026