Sunrise direction
The crossword clue "Sunrise direction" is answered by EAST, a 4-letter entry. Used 256 times across 32 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 29 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.
The answer
EAST
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EAST answer page.
Used 256 times across 32 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 29 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EAST
Every other clue in this pilot answered by EAST, most used first.
- Right on the map - used 140 times, most recently in 2026
- Bridge position - used 121 times, most recently in 2025
- Toward sunrise - used 89 times, most recently in 2026
- Vane direction - used 79 times, most recently in 2024
Related clues
Pilot clues 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.
- Otherwise - ELSE, used 1,353 times
- Give off - EMIT, used 874 times
- At any time - EVER, used 696 times
- Therefore - ERGO, used 684 times
- Gaelic - ERSE, used 679 times
- Raison d'___ - ETRE, used 658 times
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