CodyCross December 31, 2024 Daily Answers
Both daily grids for this date — 27 midsize and 12 small clues.
EnglishMidsize Crossword — 27 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | A nanny one might be in a teddy bear | CAM | 3 | |
| #2 | Abbreviation of the state Nashville is part of | TENN | 4 | |
| #3 | Alcoholic beverage commonly served at celebrations | CHAMPAGNE | 9 | |
| #4 | Architectural plating also called sheeting rail | GIRT | 4 | |
| #5 | Barrier in a home to prevent toddlers from falling | STAIR GATE | 10 | |
| #6 | Cartman, Bana, or Clapton | ERIC | 4 | |
| #7 | Egg-laying chicken | HEN | 3 | |
| #8 | First name of human rights lawyer Clooney | AMAL | 4 | |
| #9 | Fleming, who wrote the James Bond books | IAN | 3 | |
| #10 | Fruit that features in Twelve Days of Christmas | PEAR | 4 | |
| #11 | Hall and Oates song; animal that eats humans | MANEATER | 8 | |
| #12 | Initialism for short term memory | STM | 3 | |
| #13 | Initialism for the direction east-south-east | ESE | 3 | |
| #14 | Italian city, capital of Sardinia | CAGLIARI | 8 | |
| #15 | Kilo, mega, giga, __ | TERA | 4 | |
| #16 | Made a meal warm again | REHEATED | 8 | |
| #17 | Model driven software engineering, initialism | MDSE | 4 | |
| #18 | People from Tehran | IRANIANS | 8 | |
| #19 | Prank, joke | GAG | 3 | |
| #20 | Reese Witherspoon Legally Blonde character | ELLE | 4 | |
| #21 | Sarah J __, best-selling romantasy author | MAAS | 4 | |
| #22 | Tidy, orderly | NEAT | 4 | |
| #23 | To eat a meal | DINE | 4 | |
| #24 | To engrave with a technique that uses acid | ETCH | 4 | |
| #25 | Verdi Egyptian opera about Ethiopian princess | AIDA | 4 | |
| #26 | Wile E. Coyote's superstore | ACME | 4 | |
| #27 | You square the length of square's side to find it | AREA | 4 |
Small Crossword — 12 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Association of Tennis Professionals, acronym | ATP | 3 | |
| #2 | Baker's son Mellark, loves Katniss in Hunger Games | PEETA | 5 | |
| #3 | Continue one's subscription | RENEW | 5 | |
| #4 | Digital save the date | EVITE | 5 | |
| #5 | Female sheep | EWE | 3 | |
| #6 | Nerve layer in the back of the eye | RETINA | 6 | |
| #7 | Never odd __ (a palindrome) | OR EVEN | 7 | |
| #8 | Number of items in a trio | THREE | 5 | |
| #9 | Percussion drum with sharp sound, used in marching | SNARE | 5 | |
| #10 | Sitcom with Ted Danson as Sam Malone | CHEERS | 6 | |
| #11 | The hard nut of an oak tree that falls in autumn | ACORN | 5 | |
| #12 | Tidier, less messy than | NEATER | 6 |
December 31, 2024 — How the Grids Break Down
These are the CodyCross daily crosswords for December 31, 2024, a Tuesday. 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 STAIR GATE 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 Dec 31
December 31, 2024 — Questions
What are the CodyCross daily answers for December 31, 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