"The Shoes of the Fisherman" author

The answer

WEST

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

Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Sunset setting - used 20 times, most recently in 2022
• 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
• 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.

• Up to the task - ABLE, used 397 times
• In the thick of - AMID, used 377 times
• On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
• From the top - ANEW, used 355 times
• Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times
• Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times

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