Draws a bead

The answer

AIMS

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

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AIMS

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

• Goals - used 150 times, most recently in 2026
• Objectives - used 96 times, most recently in 2026
• Intentions - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
• Intends - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Purposes - used 30 times, most recently in 2024
• Prepares to fire - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
• Aspirations - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Targets - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Prepares to shoot - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
• Uses a scope - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
• Points (at) - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Designs - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Draws a bead on - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• Intents - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Sets one's sights - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
• Gets ready to fire - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Sights - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Directs - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Gets in one's sights, with "at" - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

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.

• Draws to a close - ENDS, used 41 times
• Draws - TIES, used 38 times
• Draws on - USES, used 21 times
• Draws upon - USES, used 21 times
• Draws away from shore - EBBS, used 8 times

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