Sunup direction

The answer

EAST

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

Used 28 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 8 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
• 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
• 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

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.

• Sunset direction - WEST, used 43 times
• Change direction - VEER, used 35 times
• Sunup - DAWN, used 34 times
• Wind direction indicator - VANE, used 34 times

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