Compass pt.
The crossword clue "Compass pt." is answered by NNW, a 3-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NNW
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NNW answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for NNW
Every other clue in this collection answered by NNW, most used first.
- Opposite of SSE - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- SSE's opposite - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- U-turn from SSE - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Houston-to-Dallas dir. - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Compass point. - used 8 times, most recently in 1974
- Wind dir. - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
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.
- Compass point. - ENE, used 222 times
- Compass dir. - ENE, used 175 times
- Compass dir. - SSE, used 161 times
- Compass point. - SSE, used 160 times
- Compass point. - NNE, used 142 times
- Compass point. - ESE, used 133 times
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