CodyCross April 17, 2026 Daily Answers
Both daily grids for this date — 24 midsize and 11 small clues.
EnglishMidsize Crossword — 24 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | "Put a tiger in your tank" here | ESSO | 4 | |
| #2 | Actor Schreiber, star of Scream movies | LIEV | 4 | |
| #3 | Basic and Applied Ecology | BAAE | 4 | |
| #4 | Californian music and arts festival | COACHELLA | 9 | |
| #5 | Chandelier and Cheap Thrills pop star | SIA | 3 | |
| #6 | Chemical formula for caesium chloride | CSCL | 4 | |
| #7 | Country singer Rimes | LEANN | 5 | |
| #8 | Disease such as a cold or measles | ILLNESS | 7 | |
| #9 | Europe's space exploration group | ESA | 3 | |
| #10 | Federal Poverty Level | FPL | 3 | |
| #11 | French term for a dead end, cul-de-__ | SAC | 3 | |
| #12 | Friendly to the environment, sustainable | ECO | 3 | |
| #13 | Initials for Shakespearean theatrical company | RSC | 3 | |
| #14 | It is better to give than to __ | RECEIVE | 7 | |
| #15 | Land measurement unit | ACRE | 4 | |
| #16 | Mont Blanc is in this range | ALPS | 4 | |
| #17 | Old witch woman | HAG | 3 | |
| #18 | People who portion things out, give out tasks | ASSIGNERS | 9 | |
| #19 | Rapidly shrinking lake in Central Asia | ARAL SEA | 8 | |
| #20 | René, French inventor of the stethoscope | LAENNEC | 7 | |
| #21 | Swamps often teem with it | LIFE | 4 | |
| #22 | The Roman sun god | SOL | 3 | |
| #23 | To cook the surface of something with high heat | SEAR | 4 | |
| #24 | White vestment worn by Christian priests | ALB | 3 |
Small Crossword — 11 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Alexander __, led a Czech liberalizing regime | DUBČEK | 7 | |
| #2 | Exciting, giving thrills | KICKY | 5 | |
| #3 | Fashion brand by Donna from the Big Apple | DKNY | 4 | |
| #4 | First Japanese player to win a grand slam | OSAKA | 5 | |
| #5 | Global retailer known for its furniture | IKEA | 4 | |
| #6 | Initialism for Department of Defense | DOD | 3 | |
| #7 | Japanese poem with seventeen syllables | HAIKU | 5 | |
| #8 | Nick who retired as head Alabama football coach | SABAN | 5 | |
| #9 | To remove the outer layers of a corn cob | HUSK | 4 | |
| #10 | Type of milk with almost no fat | SKIM | 4 | |
| #11 | __bang online trend in which lots of food is eaten | MUK | 3 |
April 17, 2026 — How the Grids Break Down
These are the CodyCross daily crosswords for April 17, 2026, a Friday. The game publishes two grids every day — a quick small puzzle and a longer midsize one — and this page carries both, 35 clues in total. The longest answer across the pair is COACHELLA 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 2,004 dates. For the main game, the world index covers 108 worlds and 10,716 puzzles.
Dailies Around Apr 17
April 17, 2026 — Questions
What are the CodyCross daily answers for April 17, 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 28, 2026