Clues for the word "INTENT"
We've had 95 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 216 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 26, 2025.
Definition of intent
- a. - Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.
- a. - Having the mind closely directed to or bent on an object; sedulous; eager in pursuit of an object; -- formerly with to, but now with on; as, intent on business or pleasure.
- n. - The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim.
Referring Clues
- Purpose
- Focused
- Concentrating
- Aim
- Fixed
- It can be malicious
- What a prosecutor may try to prove
- Absorbed
- Steadfastly fixed
- Goal
- Strongly determined
- Design
- Resolute
- Meaning
- It may be hard to prove in court
- Rapt
- Deeply focused
- Hard thing to prove
- Objective
- Object
- Criminal trial concern
- It may be malicious
- Concentrated
- Key concept in criminal law
- Legal question
- Motivation
- Something to be proven in a criminal case
- Motive
- Totally focused
- Sharply focused
- "Law & Order: Criminal ___"
- Very focused
- Hell-bent (on)
- Bent (on)
- Desired outcome
- Engrossed as a camper?
- Where circus audience is engrossed
- Determined
- Manager's purpose
- Napalm Death "Malicious ___"
- Robyn "Criminal ___"
- Design fashionable accommodation for holiday-makers?
- Firm plan
- Engrossed while camping
- Design in canvas?
- See 17
- Meaning to be sheltered from the elements
- Bent on getting a goal
- Meaning to get the material back into the tin, somehow
- Concentrating on goal
- Meaning "What every smart camper should have"?
- Concentrating on one's aim
- Meaning it's what smart campers are buying
- Focused on a task
- Where camping is determined?
- Eager camper may settle here
- Determined to exclude religious education from the web?
- Steadfast purpose
- Absorbed, like audience at circus
- Criminal law concept
- Malice aforethought, e.g.
- Design covered by canvas?
- Eager to get under canvas?
- In a marquee on purpose
- Design it to go round pole in front of hospital department
- Concentrating on camping?
- Aim to be under canvas
- Under canvas showing purpose?
- Section of paint entirely absorbed
- What manslaughter lacks
- Where camper may be concentrating?
- Wrapped up, as a camper will be
- Firmly fixed, as a gaze
- Volition
- Engrossed
- Bent on being under canvas?
- Aim to be under canvas?
- Engrossed as a camper?
- Meaning one's totally absorbed by
- Wrapped up in and sheltered from the elements
- Marked by complete attention to
- Counterpart of impact
- Absorbed, aim
- Single-minded
- Where oxygen is taken, or absorbed
- Giving all one's attention to when camping out
- Bent on getting inside the marquee
- Design in canvas?
- Hard to prove in criminal law
- Strongly focused
- Meaning to get totally engrossed in
- Concentrating hard on, aim
- Eager
- Mens rea, for example
- Wrapped up, is protected against the elements
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 19, 2025
- Mirror Mini - November 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 27, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 25, 2025
- LA Times - July 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 14, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 24, 2025
- LA Times - April 24, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 14, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 25, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 06, 2025
- Daily American - November 04, 2024
- New York Times - October 28, 2024
- USA Today - October 03, 2024
- Mirror Mini - August 28, 2024
- Daily American - July 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 21, 2024
- New York Times - June 20, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - June 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 24, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - May 17, 2024
- And in 186 more crossword puzzles...