Nautical direction
The crossword clue "Nautical direction" is answered by ALEE, a 4-letter entry. Used 70 times across 38 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ALEE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ALEE answer page.
Used 70 times across 38 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
Other clues for ALEE
Every other clue in this collection answered by ALEE, most used first.
- Away from the wind - used 282 times, most recently in 2026
- Sheltered - used 261 times, most recently in 2026
- Out of the wind - used 179 times, most recently in 2026
- Sheltered, at sea - used 132 times, most recently in 2026
- Toward shelter - used 127 times, most recently in 2019
- Nautical term. - used 125 times, most recently in 2011
- Downwind - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
- Not aweather - used 80 times, most recently in 2025
- On the sheltered side - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
- Opposite of aweather - used 77 times, most recently in 2020
- On the safe side - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Helm position - used 48 times, most recently in 2016
- Nautical adverb - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Toward the sheltered side - used 46 times, most recently in 2024
- Out of the storm - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Aweather's opposite - used 38 times, most recently in 2024
- Protected from the wind - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Sheltered from the wind - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Nautical word - used 31 times, most recently in 2003
- To the sheltered side - used 31 times, most recently in 2014
- Protected, at sea - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Sheltered, nautically - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- On the safe side, at sea - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
- On the protected side - used 24 times, most recently in 2020
- Away from the storm - used 23 times, most recently in 2014
- On the calm side - used 23 times, most recently in 2019
- Nautical position - used 22 times, most recently in 2013
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Sunrise direction - EAST, used 256 times
- Recipe direction - STIR, used 102 times
- Vane direction - EAST, used 79 times
- Stage direction - EXIT, used 77 times
- Direction - EAST, used 57 times
- Prefix with nautical - AERO, used 46 times
Search the clue collection
Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.