Gets in one's sights, with "at"

The answer

AIMS

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 2 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
• Draws a bead - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Sights - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Directs - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Prefix with dynamic - AERO, used 152 times
• Share a border with - ABUT, used 152 times
• Done with - OVER, used 145 times
• Gets older - AGES, used 136 times
• With: Fr. - AVEC, used 132 times
• With skill - ABLY, used 127 times

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