CodyCross August 5, 2026 Daily Answers
Both daily grids for this date — 71 midsize and 31 small clues.
EnglishMidsize Crossword — 71 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 1965 song where Paul Simon sings "I am an island" | I AM A ROCK | 11 | |
| #2 | A badger's den | SETT | 4 | |
| #3 | A purple-brown or red shade; rhymes with deuce | PUCE | 4 | |
| #4 | Abbreviation for Dietary Reference Intake | DRI | 3 | |
| #5 | Abbreviation for obstetricians | OBS | 3 | |
| #6 | Another word for information, facts and statistics | DATA | 4 | |
| #7 | Armed response unit | ARU | 3 | |
| #8 | Boat made by hollowing out a log | DUGOUT | 6 | |
| #9 | British Army special forces air unit, initialism | SAS | 3 | |
| #10 | Chem, Phys and __ | BIOL | 4 | |
| #11 | Children's TV channel | CBBC | 4 | |
| #12 | Companies that produce and sell beers | BREWERIES | 9 | |
| #13 | Dark purple root vegetable | BEETROOT | 8 | |
| #14 | Dove to the home plate | SLID | 4 | |
| #15 | Evergreen tree, often used as a Christmas tree | FIR | 3 | |
| #16 | Fictional white rabbit in Dutch children's books | MIFFY | 5 | |
| #17 | Folded tortilla around meat and toppings | TACO | 4 | |
| #18 | Follow orders | OBEY | 4 | |
| #19 | Food products grown for profit | CROP | 4 | |
| #20 | Going, going, __ | GONE | 4 | |
| #21 | Golden __, period of prosperity and growth | AGE | 3 | |
| #22 | Greek golden-winged goddess of the rainbow | IRIS | 4 | |
| #23 | Greek letter similar in sound to an F | PHI | 3 | |
| #24 | Greek monasteries on high-topped mountains | METEORA | 7 | |
| #25 | Gross or sickly, in slang | ICKY | 4 | |
| #26 | Guess the object seen with my little eye | I SPY | 5 | |
| #27 | Harker, main female character in Dracula | MINA | 4 | |
| #28 | Hidden explosive device that goes off when touched | BOOBY TRAP | 10 | |
| #29 | In short, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis vaccine | DTP | 3 | |
| #30 | Instagram hashtag for getting dressed up | GRWM | 4 | |
| #31 | Italy's currency before the euro (plural) | LIRE | 4 | |
| #32 | Joint in a quadruped's hind leg, like an ankle | HOCK | 4 | |
| #33 | Jonathan Lewis' and Henry Byron's same name play | OUR BOYS | 8 | |
| #34 | Large US nonprofit that defends rights, liberties | ACLU | 4 | |
| #35 | Liberia's three-letter country code | LBR | 3 | |
| #36 | London education authority ended in 1990, initials | ILEA | 4 | |
| #37 | Longs for | YEARNS | 6 | |
| #38 | Miley Cyrus' Party location | USA | 3 | |
| #39 | NFL player who was subject of The Blind Side | OHER | 4 | |
| #40 | Neuter a female animal | SPAY | 4 | |
| #41 | Nile-side location of the Valley of the Kings | WEST BANK | 9 | |
| #42 | North African staple of crushed semolina | COUSCOUS | 8 | |
| #43 | Not old | NEW | 3 | |
| #44 | Online lesson for using a computer program | TUTORIAL | 8 | |
| #45 | Painting a house may require more than one | COAT | 4 | |
| #46 | Persuasive writing or speaking | RHETORIC | 8 | |
| #47 | Petrol station, competitor of Shell and BP | ESSO | 4 | |
| #48 | Pie-like desserts with no top crusts | TARTS | 5 | |
| #49 | Prefix meaning equal, e.g. metrics | ISO | 3 | |
| #50 | Quality of gravies or custards that are not smooth | LUMPINESS | 9 | |
| #51 | Rock genre with psychedelic references | ACID | 4 | |
| #52 | Science rooms | LABS | 4 | |
| #53 | Short for come on | CMON | 4 | |
| #54 | Short name for plastic component Bisphenol A | BPA | 3 | |
| #55 | Slang for quick flips from interest to aversion | ICKS | 4 | |
| #56 | Solo rock climbing over deep water | PSICOBLOC | 9 | |
| #57 | Spicy | HOT | 3 | |
| #58 | Tattooists' liquids | INKS | 4 | |
| #59 | Texting abbreviation for oversharing | TMI | 3 | |
| #60 | The hard white items in the body | BONE | 4 | |
| #61 | Three-letter code for the Barbados dollar | BBD | 3 | |
| #62 | University of California, Los Angeles, for short | UCLA | 4 | |
| #63 | Vacuum tube using cathode rays | CRT | 3 | |
| #64 | Wants, longs for something | DESIRES | 7 | |
| #65 | Was Italy's airline carrier based out of Rome | ALITALIA | 8 | |
| #66 | When main communal prayers are held in Islam | FRIDAYS | 7 | |
| #67 | Word before Doubtfire in the Robin Williams film | MRS | 3 | |
| #68 | __ Full of Stars, 2014 hit single for Coldplay | A SKY | 5 | |
| #69 | __ Luke, Newman is a petty thief in this movie | COOL HAND | 9 | |
| #70 | __ pony; person with a sole area of expertise | ONE TRICK | 9 | |
| #71 | __ shelter, a WW2 steel cage used in homes | MORRISON | 8 |
Small Crossword — 31 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | A newsroom department devoted to a topic | DESK | 4 | |
| #2 | A seabird related to the shearwater | PETREL | 6 | |
| #3 | Actors Begley and Begley Jr | EDS | 3 | |
| #4 | Best outcomes | IDEALS | 6 | |
| #5 | Boat bottoms | KEELS | 5 | |
| #6 | By way of, by means of; literally 'road' in Latin | VIA | 3 | |
| #7 | Compass direction where the sun rises | EAST | 4 | |
| #8 | Famous brand of violin, in short | STRAD | 5 | |
| #9 | Group of brainwashed people | CULT | 4 | |
| #10 | Hard plastic used for gramophone records | VINYL | 5 | |
| #11 | Hereditary and Sixth Sense star Collette | TONI | 4 | |
| #12 | Irish singer-songwriter of Orinoco Flow | ENYA | 4 | |
| #13 | Lauder the cosmetics queen | ESTEE | 5 | |
| #14 | Legume also known as the cluster bean | GUAR | 4 | |
| #15 | Ligament commonly torn when playing football | ACL | 3 | |
| #16 | Neat or clean | TIDY | 4 | |
| #17 | Novel thought | IDEA | 4 | |
| #18 | One who is doomed | GONER | 5 | |
| #19 | Psychologist Timothy Leary advocated its use | LSD | 3 | |
| #20 | Restless leg syndrome for short | RLS | 3 | |
| #21 | Scottish river, name means "watercourse" | AYR | 3 | |
| #22 | Shaded one's hair | DYED | 4 | |
| #23 | Short word that precedes X, Y for eras when born | GEN | 3 | |
| #24 | Spice derived from a star-shaped seed pod | ANISE | 5 | |
| #25 | This Arthur played Dorothy on The Golden Girls | BEA | 3 | |
| #26 | Three-letter nail polish brand founded in 1981 | OPI | 3 | |
| #27 | To construct; the proportions of a person's body | BUILD | 5 | |
| #28 | Wildebeests | GNUS | 4 | |
| #29 | You might find a pearl in one | OYSTER | 6 | |
| #30 | Zero in a football score | NIL | 3 | |
| #31 | __ You Smarter than a 10 Year Old? | ARE | 3 |
August 5, 2026 — How the Grids Break Down
These are the CodyCross daily crosswords for August 5, 2026, a Wednesday. The game publishes two grids every day — a quick small puzzle and a longer midsize one — and this page carries both, 102 clues in total. The longest answer across the pair is I AM A ROCK at 11 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 1,998 dates. For the main game, the world index covers 108 worlds and 10,716 puzzles.
Dailies Around Aug 5
August 5, 2026 — Questions
What are the CodyCross daily answers for August 5, 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 26, 2026