Sunset setting

The answer

WEST

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

Used 20 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• HORIZON (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for WEST

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

• Left on a map - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Sunset direction - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Toward sunset - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Toward the sunset - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Sunset site - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Occident - used 20 times, most recently in 2020
• Compass point - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Greeley's direction - used 15 times, most recently in 2018
• Bridge position - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
• Bridge seat - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• Cardinal point - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Into the sunset - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Toward the setting sun - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Pioneer heading - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• "___ Side Story" - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Wild place? - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Needle point? - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Compass direction - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Direction. - used 8 times, most recently in 1976
• Left on the map - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Mae or Adam - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• ___ Point - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Rapper Kanye - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Batman portrayer Adam - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• "The Shoes of the Fisherman" author - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• Wagon train direction - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Adam or Mae - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• "Batman" star Adam - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Cold War side - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• "Go ___, young man!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• __ Virginia - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• China setting - ASIA, used 186 times
• "The King and I" setting - SIAM, used 83 times
• Genesis setting - EDEN, used 59 times
• Phaser setting - STUN, used 53 times
• "Iliad" setting - TROY, used 48 times
• "The Music Man" setting - IOWA, used 47 times

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