Clues for the word "WEST"
We've had 323 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 610 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on April 20, 2026.
Definition of west
- n. - The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east.
- n. - A country, or region of country, which, with regard to some other country or region, is situated in the direction toward the west.
- n. - The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident.
- n. - Formerly, that part of the United States west of the Alleghany mountains; now, commonly, the whole region west of the Mississippi river; esp., that part which is north of the Indian Territory, New Mexico, etc. Usually with the definite article.
- a. - Lying toward the west; situated at the west, or in a western direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the west, or coming from the west; as, a west course is one toward the west; an east and west line; a west wind blows from the west.
- adv. - Westward.
- v. i. - To pass to the west; to set, as the sun.
- v. i. - To turn or move toward the west; to veer from the north or south toward the west.
Referring Clues
- Wild place
- Cold war side, with "the"
- A.F.C. division
- Pioneer's heading
- Left on a map
- ___ Bank
- Wild place?
- ___ End (Mayfair's location)
- 9 o'clock, to some
- "Penn's Treaty With the Indians" painter Benjamin
- Wild ___
- East of the sun and ___ of the moon (fairy tale locale)
- Shrine Bowl team
- Direction for Greeley
- Nathanael who wrote "Miss Lonelyhearts"
- It underwent the Enlightenment, with "the"
- Expansion target, with "the"
- Toward the sunset
- Point to the left
- All-star game team, maybe
- See 10-Across
- Early Hollywood sex symbol
- One side in an annual football game
- Like some winds
- Toward sunset
- Direction wagon trains headed
- Cold war faction
- Direction for a wagon train
- Greeley's direction
- Pacific states, with "the"
- Part of the country where polls close later
- See 5-Down
- Side in an annual all-star game
- Countryman of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
- Communism battler, with "the"
- Rapper Kanye
- Wagon train's direction
- Sunset direction
- Left on the map
- Benjamin or Jerry
- Bridge seat
- Shrine Game side
- "The Day of the Locust" author Nathanael
- TV Batman Adam
- Left, to a cartographer
- Lanai, vis-à-vis Maui
- Sunset setting
- "My Little Chickadee" costar
- Shelley's "Ode to the ___ Wind"
- Point to the left?
- Adam of "Batman"
- TV Batman
- One side of Manhattan
- Opposite of east
- Direction recommended by Horace Greeley
- Pioneer heading
- Common wagon train direction
- Batman portrayer Adam
- Greeley's direction for young men
- Home of the witch who melted
- The Rams' division in the NFC
- See 23-Down
- Cold war side
- Occident
- "Old" 19th century region
- Lincoln-to-Cheyenne direction
- Wagon train direction
- "The Shoes of the Fisherman" author Morris
- TV's "Batman"
- Ex-Laker outlined on the NBA logo
- Wild ___
- Wicked Witch's home
- Wild follower
- Word with wind or wing
- Former Laker Jerry who is silhouetted in the NBA logo
- Early Batman portrayer
- See 64-Across
- Old place in oaters?
- Former L.A. Laker silhouetted in the NBA logo
- "The Day of the Locust" author
- "The Shoes of the Fisherman" author
- Wagon-train direction
- Cardinal point
- Left, on a map
- Toward Hawaii
- "Batman" star Adam
- Needle point?
- Map section
- Bank of Israel?
- Toward the setting sun
- "Batman" star Adam
- Certain Wicked Witch's home
- America and its allies, popularly
- Type of wind
- A Batman
- Key conclusion?
- Bridge position
- "My Little Chickadee" star
- Left on the map?
- Wild or Old region
- Pioneer's direction
- "Wild" place
- The half of the keyboard on which all of this puzzle's answers can be typed
- Kanye of music
- Best-selling singer Kanye
- "The Day of the Locust" author
- "The Shoes of the Fisherman" author
- Geographical area
- Setting site
- Loose cannon Kanye
- American League or National League division
- Basketball Hall of Famer Jerry
- From Washington to Lincoln, for example
- Show girl Mae
- Into the sunset
- The far left, on a map
- Go ____ young man!
- Author Jessamyn
- Compass direction
- With 64- and 66-Across, film that premiered in New York City 10/18/1961
- Vane direction
- Greeley's suggested direction
- Frontier, once
- Wagon train heading
- Setting setting
- Sunset site
- Sunset spot
- Compass point
- Oater setting
- Sundown site
- TV's Batman
- Sundown venue
- TV's Batman portrayer
- TV Batman portrayer
- Batman portrayer
- Fields co-star, once only
- With 131-Across, U.S. Military Academy students
- Part of NNW
- Opposite of 40-Down
- "Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It" memoirist
- It's left on a map
- 1940 Fields co-star
- Onetime wild place?
- Mae of movies
- Early 103-Down player
- Popular 19th-century heading
- Direction in which the sun sets
- "Go ___, young man!"
- Wild place, once
- Popular women's shoe seller
- It once was wild
- America, Europe, etc., with "the"
- Horace Greeley's suggested direction
- Wicked Oz witch's domain
- Sunset locale
- ___ Virginia
- Last part of the country to report election returns, usually, with "the"
- Opposite of 24-Across
- NL division
- Actress Mae ___
- East's opposite
- What was due for some pioneers?
- Indianapolis-to-Springfield direction
- Bank of the Middle East?
- Cornel who wrote "Race Matters"
- Coast designation
- Standings division
- Certain direction
- League division, often
- From Green Bay to St. Paul
- Part of SSW
- Key ___, FL
- Wheeling, ___ Virginia
- 270°
- Big name in hip-hop
- Conestoga wagon's heading
- American League division
- Last part of the country to report election results
- Sunset's direction
- Old ___
- Enemy of ISIS, with "the"
- Against the jet stream
- In the direction of the setting sun
- Horse opera setting
- Home to Oz's Wicked Witch
- Old or Wild follower
- Manifest Destiny expansion direction
- Place for the setting sun
- Wild place, stereotypically
- Way to go, per Horace Greeley
- "Wild" area years past
- Area with the last election results, with "the"
- Wicked Witch domain
- Part of SW
- Israeli Bank
- Mae ___ of films
- Sundown direction
- Side of Manhattan
- Where cowboys roamed
- Direction opposite of east
- Compass bearing
- African American Studies scholar Cornel
- Direction toward the sunset
- Hip-hop's Kanye
- '80s guys Go ___
- "King of Wishful Thinking" direction?
- "King of Wishful Thinking" band Go ___
- Pet Shop Boys "___ End Girls"
- John Mellencamp "Key ___ Intermezzo (I Saw You First)"
- Old-school sex symbol/singer Mae
- Band will tour from east to this
- Direction
- Rig was dismantled when leaving a region
- Wiltshire town in winter?
- What every solver thinks, initially, is the point of setting
- Sets composed in extra musical setting for tragic story
- It's a bad way to go!
- County of East Sussex - thereabouts yeomen primarily got into work by horse
- Colombian with brews (anag)
- Wagon train's heading
- Music's Kanye
- Dog (from Argyll?)
- Indian state supreme, if ancient European region declared by Spooner?
- Small white dog
- Family acting as source of 17
- Direction to tie up serial killer first
- Go before it and be lost
- Laker All-Star Jerry
- "The ___ Wing"
- Where the "wild" things were
- Whence Zephyrus blows
- Manchester-to-Liverpool direction
- The Guardian way is golden
- Tired way for youth to go
- He's celebrating gold this weekend: he goes ___ in the row above
- This side of the puzzle
- Major direction
- The Wicked Witch of the ___
- Wild or Old area
- Cowboy country
- Mae ___
- "W" on a compass
- National League division
- Not east
- Jerry in the NBA logo
- No Oriental concoction of stew
- Old place?
- Direction to the Guardian's street
- "Batman" actor
- Bank in Israel
- Whence the Wicked Witch
- Forty-niners' direction
- ___ Indian
- "Wild" frontier place
- US frontier land, Wild ___
- Adam or Mae
- Novelist Nathanael
- ___ Point
- Foe of Russia, with "the"
- Sundown's direction
- Dottie or Adam
- *School overlooking the Hudson
- Setting sun direction
- Mae who said "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted"
- From Washington to Lincoln
- Toward sundown
- Direction that wagon trains headed
- NL or AL division
- "Wild" 1800s region
- noitcerid s'eulc sihT
- Old U.S. region?
- "___ Side Story"
- Wagon train’s heading
- Colorado-to-California direction
- Once-common stage direction
- Toward Kansas, from Missouri
- Wild place?
- She turned down Swanson's role in "Sunset Boulevard"
- Direction for one who's been in Benin to go to Togo
- Utah-to-Nevada direction
- Direction headed by a covered wagon
- Graduation singer's surname
- Toward the left, on a map
- Kansas-to-Colorado direction
- 270°
- Drag queen and philanthropist Nina
- See 58-Down
- W, on a map
- You can point this way
- White House wing
- One direction in which to travel
- Direction from Kenya to Uganda
- What's left on a map?
- Mae who said "To err is human, but it feels divine"
- Mae who said "I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure"
- Utah-to-California direction
- What was once due to American pioneers?
- Taipei-to-Guilin direction
- Wild side?
- Word with wind and Wing
- Mongolia-to-Kazakhstan direction
- Left in the map room
- Argentina-to-Chile direction
- Basketball legend Jerry
- Frontier direction during frontier times
- "La fanciulla del ___": Puccini opera
- One direction
- Dominic of "The Crown"
- Common direction
- Major US coast
- Actor Adam ___
- "___ Coast best coast"
- Indiana-to-Illinois direction
- Key ___, Florida
- Libya-to-Algeria direction
- A major direction
- Key ___ (island home to the Hemingway House)
- From east to ___
- Way to the left?
- All-Star side
- Direction in the name of only one U.S. state
- Dominic of "Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale"
- Direction for prairie schooners
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - April 20, 2026
- New York Times - April 14, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - April 03, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - March 19, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 18, 2026
- LA Times - March 05, 2026
- LA Times - February 24, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - February 14, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 14, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 14, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 12, 2026
- Your Life Choices - January 06, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - December 07, 2025
- LA Times - December 04, 2025
- Daily American - November 30, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 05, 2025
- Mirror Mini - September 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 09, 2025
- New York Times - August 08, 2025
- Daily American - July 28, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 26, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 14, 2025
- LA Times - May 01, 2025
- Daily American - April 27, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 12, 2025
- Family Time - February 24, 2025
- USA Today - February 21, 2025
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