Daily Themed Crossword January 15, 2023 Answers
Every clue and answer from the January 15, 2023 grid, in puzzle order.
January 15, 2023 — All 66 Clues
Listed in the order they appear in the grid. Tap COPY to take an answer with you.
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Young man | Show answer | 3 | |
| #2 | Circus routine | Show answer | 3 | |
| #3 | Whirl around like a top | Show answer | 4 | |
| #4 | Te ___ (Spanish lover's words) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #5 | Do you know ___ I am? | Show answer | 3 | |
| #6 | ___ slaw (side dish) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #7 | Bankruptcy cause | Show answer | 4 | |
| #8 | Paul ___ Sounder actor who played Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1978 TV miniseries King | Show answer | 8 | |
| #9 | Hammer's target | Show answer | 4 | |
| #10 | North Pole resident perhaps | Show answer | 3 | |
| #11 | Pear-shaped fruits | Show answer | 4 | |
| #12 | Cries from puppies (rhymes with sips) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #13 | ___ Wright Westworld actor who played Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2001 TV film Boycott | Show answer | 7 | |
| #14 | There it is! | Show answer | 3 | |
| #15 | Hot chocolate or coffee cup | Show answer | 3 | |
| #16 | Domesticate an animal | Show answer | 4 | |
| #17 | Rapper ___ Wayne | Show answer | 3 | |
| #18 | Santa ___ California | Show answer | 3 | |
| #19 | Small piece of something | Show answer | 3 | |
| #20 | Depression on a car door | Show answer | 4 | |
| #21 | James Earl ___ Coming 2 America actor who was a featured Martin Luther King Day speaker in 2002 | Show answer | 5 | |
| #22 | Suffix with fluor or chlor | Show answer | 3 | |
| #23 | Doin' Time singer Del Rey | Show answer | 4 | |
| #24 | Praise or laud as virtues | Show answer | 5 | |
| #25 | Samuel L. ___ Pulp Fiction actor who played Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2011 stage production Mountaintop | Show answer | 7 | |
| #26 | Rome's country | Show answer | 5 | |
| #27 | Fuel singer DiFranco | Show answer | 3 | |
| #28 | Darling for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #29 | End-of-year test | Show answer | 4 | |
| #30 | Eggy concoction | Show answer | 3 | |
| #31 | Nickname letters | Show answer | 3 | |
| #32 | Excessively abundant (anagram of fier) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #33 | It's most certainly not good | Show answer | 3 | |
| #34 | Warning sign of things to come | Show answer | 4 | |
| #35 | Malik ___ New York Undercover actor who played Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2013 TV film Betty & Coretta | Show answer | 4 | |
| #36 | That's adorable! | Show answer | 3 | |
| #37 | Ho ___ Minh City Vietnam | Show answer | 3 | |
| #38 | Don't take that ___ with me! (Don't talk to me that way!) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #39 | Star Wars genre: Hyph. | Show answer | 5 | |
| #40 | Edgar Allan ___ author of The Black Cat | Show answer | 3 | |
| #41 | Under the weather | Show answer | 3 | |
| #42 | Stark patriarch in Game of Thrones lovingly | Show answer | 3 | |
| #43 | Minor misunderstanding | Show answer | 4 | |
| #44 | Pant zipper informally | Show answer | 3 | |
| #45 | Hitchhiker's request | Show answer | 4 | |
| #46 | Snatch suddenly | Show answer | 4 | |
| #47 | Prefix with circle to mean half | Show answer | 4 | |
| #48 | White as a ghost | Show answer | 4 | |
| #49 | Knee-ankle connection | Show answer | 4 | |
| #50 | 2007 title role where Elliot Page plays a pregnant teen | Show answer | 4 | |
| #51 | Manhattan Beach author Jennifer ___ | Show answer | 4 | |
| #52 | Giant mythical creature from the Himalayas | Show answer | 4 | |
| #53 | Key near the space bar | Show answer | 3 | |
| #54 | Colonel's junior for short (anagram of jam) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #55 | ___ and Dee Dee (animated fictional siblings in a Laboratory) | Show answer | 6 | |
| #56 | Deer's Yellowstone relative | Show answer | 3 | |
| #57 | Malia Obama's sister | Show answer | 5 | |
| #58 | Opus ___ (The Da Vinci Code organization) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #59 | Every ___ and cranny... | Show answer | 4 | |
| #60 | Pitch Perfect actress Kendrick | Show answer | 4 | |
| #61 | Vehicle for hire | Show answer | 4 | |
| #62 | Snowman from Frozen | Show answer | 4 | |
| #63 | ___ disease (tick-borne disease) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #64 | MLK Day month briefly | Show answer | 3 | |
| #65 | It's ___-win situation: 2 wds. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #66 | Tobacco product for short | Show answer | 3 |
How the January 15, 2023 Grid Breaks Down
This is the Daily Themed Crossword main puzzle for January 15, 2023, a Sunday. It contains 66 clues, which is exactly the usual size for a daily grid. The longest answer is WINFIELD at 8 letters; the shortest is 3.
Watch the clue wording on this one: 1 clue carries a "wds." flag, so the answer runs several words together with no spaces. Those markers are reliable in this game and are the quickest way to fix a letter count before you commit to an entry.
Neighbouring dates are linked above, and the 2023 archive holds every daily puzzle from that year. There is also a mini crossword for January 15, 2023 with 10 clues. Away from the calendar, the game's 202 themed packs hold another 58,679 clues.
January 15, 2023 — Questions
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3 Tips for the January 15, 2023 Crossword
The theme is a clue in itself
Daily Themed Crossword builds each board around one idea, and the themed entries are usually the longest answers on the grid. This board carries 66 clues with answers from 3 to 8 letters — work out what the long ones have in common and the rest of the grid opens up around them.
Short fills are where the crossings come from
Three- and four-letter answers are the cheapest squares on the board and they feed letters into every long entry they touch. When a themed answer will not come, fill the short ones around it first rather than staring at the clue.
There is a mini board for this date too
Daily Themed Crossword runs two boards a day. The mini crossword for January 15, 2023 is on its own page, and the two share a theme more often than not — solving one gives you a head start on the other.
Verified Answers, Not Guesses
How we verify this board
The 66 clue-and-answer pairs here were captured from the January 15, 2023 crossword on the day it ran, with the clue wording stored exactly as the game showed it and every answer length-checked against its slot. Dated boards are never rewritten after publication.
Reviewed by Nadia Okonkwo, Crossword and Clue 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 9, 2026Daily Themed Crossword by the numbers
How to Solve a Daily Themed Crossword
How the daily and mini grids are built, and the order that solves them.
Read the theme before the clues
Daily Themed Crossword builds every puzzle around one idea, and the long entries almost always belong to it. Knowing the theme turns those from cold clues into a guessing game with a very short list.
Fill the short crossings first
Three and four letter answers use the most predictable vocabulary in the whole grid. Each one you place hands letters to the long clues for free, which is a better use of the first minute than staring at the hardest entry.
Abbreviations are signposted
A clue ending in "Abbr." or containing its own abbreviation is telling you the answer is short and clipped. The same goes for "Hyph." and "2 wds." — the clue format is half the answer.