Daily Themed Crossword February 20, 2023 Answers
Every clue and answer from the February 20, 2023 grid, in puzzle order.
February 20, 2023 — All 68 Clues
Listed in the order they appear in the grid. Tap COPY to take an answer with you.
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Lion's luxuriant locks | Show answer | 4 | |
| #2 | Male sibling for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #3 | Vietnamese noodle soup | Show answer | 3 | |
| #4 | Cupid's Greek counterpart (anagram of sore) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #5 | Oh no I messed up! | Show answer | 4 | |
| #6 | Speed up as an engine | Show answer | 3 | |
| #7 | ___ Ledger Oscar-winning The Dark Knight actor | Show answer | 5 | |
| #8 | Kane and ___ novel by Jeffrey Archer | Show answer | 4 | |
| #9 | Before to Emily Dickinson | Show answer | 3 | |
| #10 | 1978 Dolly Parton song from the eponymous album that topped the U.S. country singles chart | Show answer | 12 | |
| #11 | Discreet Music musician Brian ___ | Show answer | 3 | |
| #12 | Pointy hole-making tool | Show answer | 3 | |
| #13 | ___ did the chicken cross the road? | Show answer | 3 | |
| #14 | Electrical ___ (network for producing electricity) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #15 | Japanese wrestling form | Show answer | 4 | |
| #16 | Frozen rain say | Show answer | 4 | |
| #17 | Touch ___ 1972 Dolly Parton song that was nominated for a Grammy: 2 wds. | Show answer | 9 | |
| #18 | Prefix for science or present | Show answer | 4 | |
| #19 | Feng ___ (Chinese aesthetic system) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #20 | The Cask of Amontillado writer Edgar Allan ___ | Show answer | 3 | |
| #21 | Shoemaker's helper in a Brothers Grimm fairy tale | Show answer | 3 | |
| #22 | Train traveler's stop for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #23 | 2005 Dolly Parton song written for the film Transamerica that was nominated for an Oscar: 2 wds. | Show answer | 12 | |
| #24 | Last three vowels | Show answer | 3 | |
| #25 | I'm on your ___! (I support you!) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #26 | Captain ___ Gregory Peck's Moby Dick role | Show answer | 4 | |
| #27 | Palindromic Indian flatbread | Show answer | 3 | |
| #28 | One who can predict the future perhaps | Show answer | 4 | |
| #29 | I Will Always ___ You 1973 Dolly Parton song famously covered by Whitney Houston | Show answer | 4 | |
| #30 | Hill-dwelling insect | Show answer | 3 | |
| #31 | Teary-eyed perhaps | Show answer | 3 | |
| #32 | Crone in a fairy tale say | Show answer | 3 | |
| #33 | I'm not impressed response | Show answer | 3 | |
| #34 | ___ you in or out? | Show answer | 3 | |
| #35 | Animal rescuer in the Bible | Show answer | 4 | |
| #36 | ___ Lauder (Clinique parent company) | Show answer | 5 | |
| #37 | Gravy ___ (pitcher or jug for serving sauce) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #38 | Eldest son of Ned Stark in Game of Thrones | Show answer | 4 | |
| #39 | Sydney ___ House Australia | Show answer | 5 | |
| #40 | School for toddlers say: Hyph. | Show answer | 4 | |
| #41 | ___ You Come Again 1977 Dolly Parton song that won a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance | Show answer | 4 | |
| #42 | ___ the moon (very happy) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #43 | Killed as a giant (rhymes with flew) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #44 | Put up on a wall as a picture frame | Show answer | 4 | |
| #45 | ___ Gilmore Alexis Bledel's character in Gilmore Girls | Show answer | 4 | |
| #46 | The first A in A.K.A. | Show answer | 4 | |
| #47 | The Boy ___ Cried Wolf Aesop's fable | Show answer | 3 | |
| #48 | Meat that can be cured | Show answer | 3 | |
| #49 | Yang's partner | Show answer | 3 | |
| #50 | Platform for the App Store | Show answer | 3 | |
| #51 | How obvious! | Show answer | 3 | |
| #52 | Baseball official for short | Show answer | 3 | |
| #53 | ___ Zedong famed Chinese figure | Show answer | 3 | |
| #54 | In ___ ear and out the other | Show answer | 3 | |
| #55 | Ray Donovan actor ___ Schreiber | Show answer | 4 | |
| #56 | Corrode as an iron pipe | Show answer | 4 | |
| #57 | ___ all due respect... | Show answer | 4 | |
| #58 | Opposite of more | Show answer | 4 | |
| #59 | Eagle When She ___ 1991 Dolly Parton song that was nominated for the Grammy for Best Country Song | Show answer | 5 | |
| #60 | Severely shrunken Asian sea (anagram of lara) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #61 | Bossypants author Fey or singer Turner | Show answer | 4 | |
| #62 | Reddish-brown horse (anagram of nora) | Show answer | 4 | |
| #63 | Cousin's mom | Show answer | 4 | |
| #64 | Creative mental spark | Show answer | 4 | |
| #65 | Geeky sort informally | Show answer | 4 | |
| #66 | Looks like trouble!: Hyph. | Show answer | 4 | |
| #67 | Hollywood's ___ Gardner | Show answer | 3 | |
| #68 | ___ borrow steal | Show answer | 3 |
How the February 20, 2023 Grid Breaks Down
This is the Daily Themed Crossword main puzzle for February 20, 2023, a Monday. It contains 68 clues, which is a little above the usual size for a daily grid. The longest answer is HEARTBREAKER at 12 letters; the shortest is 3.
Watch the clue wording on this one: 2 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 February 20, 2023 with 10 clues. Away from the calendar, the game's 202 themed packs hold another 58,679 clues.
February 20, 2023 — Questions
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3 Tips for the February 20, 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 68 clues with answers from 3 to 12 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 February 20, 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 68 clue-and-answer pairs here were captured from the February 20, 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.