CodyCross October 23, 2025 Daily Answers
Both daily grids for this date — 27 midsize and 11 small clues.
EnglishMidsize Crossword — 27 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | A midterm or final this | EXAM | 4 | |
| #2 | Abbreviation for high-occupancy vehicle | HOV | 3 | |
| #3 | Abbreviation of bedroom | BDRM | 4 | |
| #4 | Actor Gilbert, ex-host of The Talk | SARA | 4 | |
| #5 | Adult female pig | SOW | 3 | |
| #6 | British bank with Hong Kong origins | HSBC | 4 | |
| #7 | Candy coated beans from this city | BOSTON | 6 | |
| #8 | Documentary film about a tightrope walk | MANONWIRE | 9 | |
| #9 | For __ About to Rock, We Salute You | THOSE | 5 | |
| #10 | French for good, goes before voyage | BON | 3 | |
| #11 | Image or icon of a snake eating its own tail | OUROBOROS | 9 | |
| #12 | Large, blundering and clumsy person | OAF | 3 | |
| #13 | Last name of NHL legend Gordie | HOWE | 4 | |
| #14 | Mixed martial arts are also known as this | MMA | 3 | |
| #15 | Number of good men in the Cruise, Nicholson film | A FEW | 5 | |
| #16 | Of winds in South Asia that bring heavy rains | MONSOONAL | 9 | |
| #17 | On a compass, the opposite of SSW | NNE | 3 | |
| #18 | Person in charge of a business | BOSS | 4 | |
| #19 | Ribosomal Ribonucleic Acid | RRNA | 4 | |
| #20 | Rock Pokémon who evolves into Steelix | ONIX | 4 | |
| #21 | Short for elementary | ELEM | 4 | |
| #22 | Sports fans often obsess over this area of data | STATS | 5 | |
| #23 | The Egyptian underworld | DUAT | 4 | |
| #24 | The M in an athletic MVP Award | MOST | 4 | |
| #25 | Three letters that mean chief strategy officer | CSO | 3 | |
| #26 | __ Lanka | SRI | 3 | |
| #27 | __ Loggia; balcony at foot of Venice Campanile | SANSOVINO | 9 |
Small Crossword — 11 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Abbreviation for Disney's Animal Kingdom | DAK | 3 | |
| #2 | Apple's early 2000s MP3 player | IPOD | 4 | |
| #3 | Appliance used for heating or cooking | STOVE | 5 | |
| #4 | Dog in the Garfield cartoons | ODIE | 4 | |
| #5 | Entry for the letter D in the dictionary | DEE | 3 | |
| #6 | Evil spirit, depicted as a red man with pitchfork | DEVIL | 5 | |
| #7 | How Owl spells his name in Winnie-the-Pooh | WOL | 3 | |
| #8 | Judd, director husband of actress Leslie Mann | APATOW | 6 | |
| #9 | Looks for treasure underground | DIGS | 4 | |
| #10 | Played on an Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo | GAMED | 5 | |
| #11 | This type of dragon is actually a giant lizard | KOMODO | 6 |
October 23, 2025 — How the Grids Break Down
These are the CodyCross daily crosswords for October 23, 2025, a Thursday. The game publishes two grids every day — a quick small puzzle and a longer midsize one — and this page carries both, 38 clues in total. The longest answer across the pair is MANONWIRE at 9 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 23
October 23, 2025 — Questions
What are the CodyCross daily answers for October 23, 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