Sunrise spot

The answer

EAST

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

Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1992. It appears in 5 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 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
• 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
• A direction - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• 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

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• On this spot - HERE, used 52 times

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