Intend to say
The crossword clue "Intend to say" is answered by MEAN, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MEAN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MEAN answer page.
Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MEAN
Every other clue in this collection answered by MEAN, most used first.
- Intend - used 120 times, most recently in 2026
- Average - used 87 times, most recently in 2026
- Nasty - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
- Signify - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
- Have in mind - used 48 times, most recently in 2024
- Cruel - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
- Unkind - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Spiteful - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Malicious - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Not nice - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Stand for - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Downright nasty - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Like the Grinch - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
- Ornery - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Penny-pinching - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
- Intend (to) - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Not at all nice - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Stingy - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
- Ill-tempered - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Small-minded - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Statistical average - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Ignoble - used 8 times, most recently in 2000
- Base - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Shabby - used 7 times, most recently in 1992
- Black-hearted - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Like a bully - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Miserly - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Vicious - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- "Sad to say ..." - ALAS, used 250 times
- "What ___ can I say?" - ELSE, used 116 times
- Say it isn't so - DENY, used 113 times
- Say it's so - AVER, used 97 times
- "You can say that again!" - AMEN, used 93 times
- "Sorry to say . . ." - ALAS, used 84 times
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