180 degrees from NNE

The answer

SSW

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SSW answer page.

Used 13 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SSW

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

• U-turn from NNE - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Opposite of NNE - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Away from NNE - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Compass point. - used 28 times, most recently in 1980
• Compass pt. - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
• Compass reading - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Dallas-to-Austin dir. - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
• Vane dir. - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Wind dir. - used 13 times, most recently in 2007
• Compass dir. - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Opposite NNE - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Boston-to-Providence dir. - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Direction opposite NNE - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• NNE opposite - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Dir. opposite NNE - 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.

• From ___ Z - ATO, used 460 times
• U-turn from NNW - SSE, used 181 times
• U-turn from WSW - ENE, used 172 times
• Steal from - ROB, used 169 times
• Away from WSW - ENE, used 155 times
• U-turn from SSW - NNE, used 101 times

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