Uses a scope
The crossword clue "Uses a scope" is answered by AIMS, a 4-letter entry. Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
AIMS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AIMS answer page.
Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 6 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
- 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
- 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.
- Scope - AREA, used 81 times
- Uses needle and thread - SEWS, used 36 times
- Uses a shovel - DIGS, used 33 times
- Grand in scope - EPIC, used 29 times
- Prefix with scope or meter - PERI, used 27 times
- Uses a needle - SEWS, used 26 times
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