CodyCross January 23, 2026 Daily Answers
Both daily grids for this date — 23 midsize and 10 small clues.
EnglishMidsize Crossword — 23 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Abbreviation for Optical Network Terminal | ONT | 3 | |
| #2 | Abbreviation of four major US entertainment awards | EGOT | 4 | |
| #3 | An opening or space between two rocks | GAP | 3 | |
| #4 | Andrews, Brockovich, Moran | ERIN | 4 | |
| #5 | Call Me By Your Name character played by Chalamet | ELIO | 4 | |
| #6 | Elsa in the movie Born Free | LIONESS | 7 | |
| #7 | First name of John Lennon's second wife | YOKO | 4 | |
| #8 | Gain entrance to a place illegally | BREAK IN | 8 | |
| #9 | Grade point average, as an initialism | GPA | 3 | |
| #10 | Its bite is said to have killed Cleopatra | ASP | 3 | |
| #11 | Long belted tunic | CAFTAN | 6 | |
| #12 | Not this, but soon | YET | 3 | |
| #13 | Repeat this for socialite Gabor's first name | ZSA | 3 | |
| #14 | Slang that's the opposite of yoink | YEET | 4 | |
| #15 | Standard number of golf strokes for a hole | PAR | 3 | |
| #16 | Stiff, silky, transparent dress fabric | ORGANZA | 7 | |
| #17 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | TMNT | 4 | |
| #18 | The body part you'd find the toes on | FOOT | 4 | |
| #19 | Three-letter alpha code for Gambia | GMB | 3 | |
| #20 | Warm-fermented beer, rhymes with pale | ALE | 3 | |
| #21 | Written abbreviation of negative | NEG | 3 | |
| #22 | You only live once | YOLO | 4 | |
| #23 | __ in the Middle, sitcom starring Frankie Muniz | MALCOLM | 7 |
Small Crossword — 10 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | A brand of popular toy trucks | TONKA | 5 | |
| #2 | A person in the video game simulating life | SIM | 3 | |
| #3 | Dutch cheese with waxy red coating | EDAM | 4 | |
| #4 | Enter within, not out of something | INTO | 4 | |
| #5 | Lisa Hall thriller, Between You __ | AND ME | 6 | |
| #6 | Not the present or the future | PAST | 4 | |
| #7 | Paradisiacal gardens | EDENS | 5 | |
| #8 | Pumpkin, pecan or lemon meringue | PIE | 3 | |
| #9 | Stand in good __, to prove useful in the future | STEAD | 5 | |
| #10 | Type of sushi that is wrapped in seaweed | MAKI | 4 |
January 23, 2026 — How the Grids Break Down
These are the CodyCross daily crosswords for January 23, 2026, a Friday. The game publishes two grids every day — a quick small puzzle and a longer midsize one — and this page carries both, 33 clues in total. The longest answer across the pair is BREAK IN 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 2,005 dates. For the main game, the world index covers 108 worlds and 10,716 puzzles.
Dailies Around Jan 23
January 23, 2026 — Questions
What are the CodyCross daily answers for January 23, 2026?
What is the difference between the small and midsize grids?
Does the daily crossword reset?
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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 29, 2026