Clues for the word "AMBITION"
We've had 24 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 42 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 26, 2025.
Definition of ambition
- n. - The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
- n. - An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.
- v. t. - To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Referring Clues
- Drive to achieve
- Force
- Drive
- Ardent desire for a goal
- Desire for success
- Aim
- Ardent desire for fame
- Drive to succeed
- Strong desire for success
- End of drive?
- One should get on with it
- Is this where I take the stage, securing part with aim of success?
- Drive from A to B with mini, erratically
- As a doctor it gets one ahead - drive, that is
- Is Picaroon working without scrap of hope?
- When batting, duck's broken by boundary drive
- Aim not to be a mocker, as 5 says
- Aim to put charged particle on circuit
- Aspiration
- Target in range on circling island
- Career goal
- Without opening gambit leading in one's new goal
- Am a little upset first, taking aim
- Fire in one's belly
Last Seen In
- New York Times - December 26, 2025
- New York Times - December 19, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 02, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 01, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 11, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 06, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 17, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 21, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 05, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - February 08, 2023
- New York Times - August 11, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 25, 2017
- Daily Quick - August 19, 2017
- Mirror Quick - July 13, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - June 12, 2017
- Guardian Quick - March 26, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - September 18, 2014
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 18, 2014
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 31, 2014
- I Swear Crossword - October 04, 2013
- Guardian Everyman - June 30, 2013
- Universal - May 27, 2013
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 22, 2013
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 20, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - March 23, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - January 04, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - June 24, 2011
- And in 12 more crossword puzzles...