CodyCross October 23, 2024 Daily Answers
Both daily grids for this date — 27 midsize and 12 small clues.
EnglishMidsize Crossword — 27 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | "To the" in French, goes before "mode" | A LA | 4 | |
| #2 | A pirate's excited affirmation | YAR | 3 | |
| #3 | A smaller amount of something | LESS | 4 | |
| #4 | Acronym for a single rocket launcher | SRL | 3 | |
| #5 | An item stuck to a surface, bordered with grout | TILE | 4 | |
| #6 | Baseball referee, for short | UMP | 3 | |
| #7 | Billy Ray's heart was breaky and this | ACHY | 4 | |
| #8 | Brazil soccer legend, Edson Arantes do Nascimento | PELE | 4 | |
| #9 | Chemical liquids that alter hair tone | DYES | 4 | |
| #10 | Clothing brand Fruit of the __ | LOOM | 4 | |
| #11 | Copied, mimicked like a monkey | APED | 4 | |
| #12 | Crusted, whipped dessert thrown in somebody's face | CREAM PIE | 9 | |
| #13 | Disease with a characteristic bullseye rash | LYME | 4 | |
| #14 | Elephant-type creature in Winnie-the-Pooh | HEFFALUMP | 9 | |
| #15 | Lotion, cream | EMULSION | 8 | |
| #16 | Mosque's prayer leader | IMAM | 4 | |
| #17 | Much-admired Motown bassist James | JAMERSON | 8 | |
| #18 | Nigerian American writer Cole, author of Open City | TEJU | 4 | |
| #19 | Red-haired orphan of Green Gables | ANNE | 4 | |
| #20 | Religious ceremony, often of passage | RITE | 4 | |
| #21 | Rock band with electric current name | ACDC | 4 | |
| #22 | Said to a child who has fallen over | UPSY DAISY | 10 | |
| #23 | Street __, coolness of reputation | CRED | 4 | |
| #24 | Style or way of doing something | MODE | 4 | |
| #25 | Three-letter code for the Congolese franc | CDF | 3 | |
| #26 | Warms up and becomes less frozen | DEFROSTS | 8 | |
| #27 | Web address | URL | 3 |
Small Crossword — 12 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 1970s clothing looked like it had run in the wash | TIE DYE | 7 | |
| #2 | Affirmed, enforced | UPHELD | 6 | |
| #3 | American rapper and member of Doomtree | DESSA | 5 | |
| #4 | Arizona city known as red rock country | SEDONA | 6 | |
| #5 | Audio equipment manufacturer with palindrome name | SONOS | 5 | |
| #6 | Cast as a serial killer in "Monster": Charlize __ | THERON | 6 | |
| #7 | Deployer of Voyager probes | NASA | 4 | |
| #8 | Homer wrote poems of this long kind | EPICS | 5 | |
| #9 | Lightweight shoes with distinct hole patterns | CROCS | 5 | |
| #10 | Search engine with black dog logo | LYCOS | 5 | |
| #11 | Stick out | JUT | 3 | |
| #12 | The Sharks gang rivals in West Side Story | JETS | 4 |
October 23, 2024 — How the Grids Break Down
These are the CodyCross daily crosswords for October 23, 2024, a Wednesday. The game publishes two grids every day — a quick small puzzle and a longer midsize one — and this page carries both, 39 clues in total. The longest answer across the pair is UPSY DAISY at 10 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.
Dailies Around Oct 23
October 23, 2024 — Questions
What are the CodyCross daily answers for October 23, 2024?
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 — Sep 7, 2026