CodyCross January 16, 2023 Daily Answers
Both daily grids for this date — 21 midsize and 10 small clues.
EnglishMidsize Crossword — 21 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | A bird's gentle or quick dip into water. | DAP | 3 | |
| #2 | Exit road from a highway. | OFFRAMP | 7 | |
| #3 | Give a gun to. | ARM | 3 | |
| #4 | Give a lecherous look. | OGLE | 4 | |
| #5 | His "Famous" chocolate chip cookies are popular. | AMOS | 4 | |
| #6 | Hole for water and wishing. | WELL | 4 | |
| #7 | How Brits say the letter Z. | ZED | 3 | |
| #8 | Legendary fire-breathing reptile. | DRAGON | 6 | |
| #9 | Light with a longer wavelength than visible light. | INFRARED | 8 | |
| #10 | Man who saw the ghosts of Christmas. | SCROOGE | 7 | |
| #11 | Middle title of singer Lana Rey. | DEL | 3 | |
| #12 | Not good. | BAD | 3 | |
| #13 | Orange-mandarin hybrid grown in Cyprus. | MANDORA | 7 | |
| #14 | Rough number of passengers on a full ship. | BOATLOAD | 8 | |
| #15 | Shining, having radiance. | AGLOW | 5 | |
| #16 | Shortened name for a type of Fender guitar. | STRAT | 5 | |
| #17 | Swaziland's three-letter country code. | SWZ | 3 | |
| #18 | The name for the handle of a knife or spear, hilt. | HAFT | 4 | |
| #19 | What or that in Italian. | CHE | 3 | |
| #20 | Yellowfin tuna. | AHI | 3 | |
| #21 | __ Is Said and Done; 1981 emotional song by ABBA. | WHEN ALL | 8 |
Small Crossword — 10 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 2016 film about Jesse Owens. | RACE | 4 | |
| #2 | Japanese firm, was Nippon Electric Company. | NEC | 3 | |
| #3 | Main minion in Minions, who is knighted. | KEVIN | 5 | |
| #4 | Martin Luther King Jr.'s initials. | MLK | 3 | |
| #5 | Operator of software. | USER | 4 | |
| #6 | Parasite that's also a clock noise. | TICK | 4 | |
| #7 | Philippines city in southeast Mindanao. | DAVAO | 5 | |
| #8 | Three letters that stand for Oklahoma City. | OKC | 3 | |
| #9 | US law student entrance exam. | LSAT | 4 | |
| #10 | Wet soil. | MUD | 3 |
January 16, 2023 — How the Grids Break Down
These are the CodyCross daily crosswords for January 16, 2023, a Monday. The game publishes two grids every day — a quick small puzzle and a longer midsize one — and this page carries both, 31 clues in total. The longest answer across the pair is INFRARED at 8 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 Jan 16
January 16, 2023 — Questions
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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