A direction

The answer

EAST

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EAST answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1926. It appears in 4 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.

• ENE (1 uses in xd)
• ESE (1 uses in xd)
• NE (1 uses in xd)
• NORTH (1 uses in xd)
• SE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for EAST

Every other clue in this collection answered by EAST, most used first.

• Sunrise direction - used 256 times, most recently in 2026
• Right on the map - used 140 times, most recently in 2026
• Bridge position - used 121 times, most recently in 2025
• Orient - used 96 times, most recently in 2022
• Toward sunrise - used 89 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ of Eden" - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• Vane direction - used 79 times, most recently in 2024
• Bridge seat - used 68 times, most recently in 2019
• Cardinal point - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
• Direction - used 57 times, most recently in 2006
• Right on a map - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
• It's right on the map - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Sunrise site - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Compass point - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Dawn direction - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Toward the dawn - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Toward the sunrise - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Toward the rising sun - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Sunup direction - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Compass direction - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• It may be due - used 19 times, most recently in 2015
• Toward dawn - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Jet stream heading - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Down ___ (Maine nickname) - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Right on maps - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Daybreak direction - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Toward sunup - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
• Big ___ Conference - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Down ___ (Maine) - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Dawn's direction - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Down ___. - used 13 times, most recently in 2004
• Point to the right - used 13 times, most recently in 2016
• Whence the Magi - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "It is the ___, and Juliet is the sun!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• National League division - used 12 times, most recently in 2013
• Needle point? - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Bridge hand - used 11 times, most recently in 2012
• Jet stream's heading - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
• Middle __ - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Near __ - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Sunup site - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• 3:00 - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• 90 degrees, on a compass - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• It's right on a map - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Vane point - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• American League division - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• Shrine Bowl team - used 9 times, most recently in 1989
• Steinbeck's "___ of Eden" - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Sunrise spot - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Eden-to-Nod direction - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• "___ End boys and West End girls" (Pet Shop Boys lyric) - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ Lynne." - used 8 times, most recently in 1981
• Magi origin - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• New York river - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• New York's ___ River - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• One way to go - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Opposite of west - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Part of SEATO - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
• Vane reading - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Big Apple river - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
• Bridge player. - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• It may be Far or Near - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• Jet stream direction - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• League division - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Marco Polo's heading - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Near or Far - used 7 times, most recently in 1975
• Steinbeck title starter - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Sunup point - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• 90 degrees - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Away from the sunset - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Direction of sunrise - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Far __ - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• How Phileas Fogg traveled - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• How the Amazon flows - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• It's right in the atlas - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Magi's origin - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• New York City river - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• New York City's ___ River - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• __ Orange, NJ - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• River beneath the Brooklyn Bridge - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• The Orient - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Vane heading - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Where the sun rises - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Recipe direction - STIR, used 102 times
• Stage direction - EXIT, used 77 times
• Nautical direction - ALEE, used 70 times
• Sunset direction - WEST, used 43 times
• Cookbook direction - STIR, used 36 times
• Change direction - VEER, used 35 times

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