"Ready, ___, fire!"

The answer

AIM

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

Used 22 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1979. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AIM

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

• Goal - used 238 times, most recently in 2026
• Objective - used 190 times, most recently in 2026
• Intention - used 160 times, most recently in 2026
• Purpose - used 83 times, most recently in 2026
• Intent - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
• Archer's asset - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Prepare to fire - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• Target - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Point - used 30 times, most recently in 2022
• Aspiration - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Intend - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• "We ___ to please" - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Object - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Archer's skill - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Point at a target - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Prepare to shoot - used 21 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.

• Ready to go - SET, used 135 times
• Fire - CAN, used 104 times
• Fire residue - ASH, used 95 times
• Fire proof? - ASH, used 91 times
• "Ready, __, go!" - SET, used 79 times
• Fire - AXE, used 75 times

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