Daily Themed Crossword June 8, 2023 Answers
Every clue and answer from the June 8, 2023 grid, in puzzle order.
June 8, 2023 — All 64 Clues
Listed in the order they appear in the grid. Tap COPY to take an answer with you.
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | William Howard ___ 27th President of USA | Show answer | 4 | |
| #2 | Chicken ___ king: 2 wds. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #3 | Challenger ___ location explored by James Cameron that's 35000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean | Show answer | 4 | |
| #4 | Tourist spot in Indonesia | Show answer | 4 | |
| #5 | Dinnerware for a baby | Show answer | 3 | |
| #6 | Nevada's Biggest Little City in the World | Show answer | 4 | |
| #7 | Completely closed | Show answer | 4 | |
| #8 | Actor Ryan ___ of Deadpool | Show answer | 8 | |
| #9 | Small battery size | Show answer | 3 | |
| #10 | Center of the solar system | Show answer | 3 | |
| #11 | Mariana ___ deepest part of the Earth's oceans and where James Cameron completed a solo descent | Show answer | 6 | |
| #12 | Sault ___ Marie Ontario | Show answer | 3 | |
| #13 | The ocean for the blue whale and the great white shark | Show answer | 7 | |
| #14 | Mooch as a cigarette | Show answer | 3 | |
| #15 | Pre-hurricane emergency operation for short | Show answer | 4 | |
| #16 | Tattoo which reads wow upside down | Show answer | 3 | |
| #17 | Sly ___ fox: 2 wds. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #18 | Marshal Michel ___ commander under Napoleon (anagram of yen) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #19 | Fire-starting sticks | Show answer | 7 | |
| #20 | Network for Shameless and Dexter for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #21 | Tree's buried part | Show answer | 4 | |
| #22 | ___: The Way of Water James Cameron's Oscar-winning film that heavily features underwater scenery | Show answer | 6 | |
| #23 | Decay like garbage | Show answer | 3 | |
| #24 | Without a sound say | Show answer | 8 | |
| #25 | Finishes as a road | Show answer | 4 | |
| #26 | ___-jerk reaction | Show answer | 4 | |
| #27 | ___ and cheese sandwich | Show answer | 3 | |
| #28 | Triple ___ (skating maneuver that's an anagram of axle) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #29 | Trickle through the cracks | Show answer | 4 | |
| #30 | ___ to the Sea Pablo Neruda poem | Show answer | 3 | |
| #31 | Lavatory in London | Show answer | 3 | |
| #32 | Network for American Dad: Abbr. | Show answer | 3 | |
| #33 | Ooh and ___ (express amazement) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #34 | Wintertime illness that may require a shot | Show answer | 3 | |
| #35 | James Cameron's Oscar-winning 1997 film for which he dived to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean | Show answer | 7 | |
| #36 | ___ Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 2012 action-horror film | Show answer | 7 | |
| #37 | Stretch the truth | Show answer | 3 | |
| #38 | The ___ 1989 Oscar-winning James Cameron film about an alien aquatic species | Show answer | 5 | |
| #39 | Male bee (rhymes with prone) | Show answer | 5 | |
| #40 | Slippery sea shocker | Show answer | 3 | |
| #41 | Dead ___ (road that leads to nowhere) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #42 | Opposite of negative for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #43 | Tough ___ to crack | Show answer | 3 | |
| #44 | Perform a part in a play | Show answer | 3 | |
| #45 | Now and ___ (sometimes) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #46 | Rant and ___ (complain angrily) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #47 | Online auction site and former owner of PayPal | Show answer | 4 | |
| #48 | Cruise on the Silver Screen? | Show answer | 3 | |
| #49 | Currency of Thailand (anagram of bath) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #50 | What's the ___? (quitter's remark) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #51 | Live ___ (Taco Bell slogan) | Show answer | 3 | |
| #52 | Will you ___? (proposal question with a ring): 2 wds. | Show answer | 7 | |
| #53 | It's ___ close to call! | Show answer | 3 | |
| #54 | Terra ___ (piece of earthenware) | Show answer | 5 | |
| #55 | Sharply inclined as a hill | Show answer | 5 | |
| #56 | Solo who has a Wookiee sidekick | Show answer | 3 | |
| #57 | Prefix with pedic or dontic | Show answer | 5 | |
| #58 | Poses as a question | Show answer | 4 | |
| #59 | Trellis-climbing plant | Show answer | 4 | |
| #60 | Away from the wind on a ship | Show answer | 4 | |
| #61 | Young man in Scotland | Show answer | 3 | |
| #62 | Singer ___ Rose of Guns N' Roses | Show answer | 3 | |
| #63 | ___ Speedwagon Keep On Loving You band | Show answer | 3 | |
| #64 | ___-motion (replay option) | Show answer | 3 |
How the June 8, 2023 Grid Breaks Down
This is the Daily Themed Crossword main puzzle for June 8, 2023, a Thursday. It contains 64 clues, which is a little below the usual size for a daily grid. The longest answer is REYNOLDS at 8 letters; the shortest is 3.
Watch the clue wording on this one: 1 clue is flagged "Abbr.", meaning the answer is shortened rather than spelled out, and 3 clues carry 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 June 8, 2023 with 10 clues. Away from the calendar, the game's 202 themed packs hold another 58,679 clues.
June 8, 2023 — Questions
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3 Tips for the June 8, 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 64 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 June 8, 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 64 clue-and-answer pairs here were captured from the June 8, 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.
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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.