CodyCross December 17, 2023 Daily Answers
Both daily grids for this date — 21 midsize and 12 small clues.
EnglishMidsize Crossword — 21 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Abbreviation for the United Arab Republic. | UAR | 3 | |
| #2 | Another name for the North Star, a guiding star. | LODESTAR | 8 | |
| #3 | Bird's home, perhaps made with sticks. | NEST | 4 | |
| #4 | Canadian syrup. | MAPLE | 5 | |
| #5 | Chimpanzee vet in the Planet of the Apes series. | ZIRA | 4 | |
| #6 | Coco Chanel's classic cocktail attire, for short. | LBD | 3 | |
| #7 | Consider to be. | DEEM | 4 | |
| #8 | Crescent shaped, such as a window panel. | LUNETTE | 7 | |
| #9 | Do not resuscitate. | DNR | 3 | |
| #10 | German chemist who invented Novocain. | EINHORN | 7 | |
| #11 | German city famous for its Red Dot Design Museum. | ESSEN | 5 | |
| #12 | Juvenile, schoolboy. | LAD | 3 | |
| #13 | Kindle or Nook, for example. | EREADER | 7 | |
| #14 | Mouse relative. | RAT | 3 | |
| #15 | Not wet. | DRY | 3 | |
| #16 | Sicilian volcano. | ETNA | 4 | |
| #17 | The price of the first stamp, issued in 1840. | ONE PENNY | 9 | |
| #18 | Tropical trees with aerial roots. | BANYANS | 7 | |
| #19 | Wild yak and cow hybrid. | DZO | 3 | |
| #20 | You Should Be Sad singer. | HALSEY | 6 | |
| #21 | __ You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. | ARE | 3 |
Small Crossword — 12 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | A musical note that's off key by being too high. | SHARP | 5 | |
| #2 | Bunny bounces. | HOPS | 4 | |
| #3 | Easy to bend, ductile. | PLIANT | 6 | |
| #4 | Leers at, gawks at. | OGLES | 5 | |
| #5 | Mockingly sarcastic attitude. | SNARK | 5 | |
| #6 | Princess Fiona and Shrek. | OGRES | 5 | |
| #7 | Questions on the way things are done. | HOWS | 4 | |
| #8 | Small child. | TYKE | 4 | |
| #9 | St. Lawrence __, connects Atlantic, Great Lakes. | SEAWAY | 6 | |
| #10 | Surname of inventor brothers Wilbur and Orville. | WRIGHT | 6 | |
| #11 | To push letters on a keyboard. | TYPE | 4 | |
| #12 | Two-wheeled self-balancing scooter. | SEGWAY | 6 |
December 17, 2023 — How the Grids Break Down
These are the CodyCross daily crosswords for December 17, 2023, a Sunday. 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 ONE PENNY 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 2,014 dates. For the main game, the world index covers 108 worlds and 10,716 puzzles.
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December 17, 2023 — Questions
What are the CodyCross daily answers for December 17, 2023?
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 — Sep 7, 2026