Charged toward

As a detective solving the mystery of the crossword clue ‘Charged toward‘, I first looked at the number of boxes and inferred the length of the answer. With six letters, I knew it would be a shorter word. Then, I took a closer look at the clue itself. ‘Charged toward‘ suggested something moving quickly in a particular direction. I began to ponder words that fit this description – raced, sprinted, bolted, charged – but these didn’t quite fit because they involved running, rather than flying. Suddenly, ‘flew‘ sprang to mind – it was something that charged forward quickly but didn’t run. Knowing that the crossword required a six-letter answer, ‘flewat‘ became an obvious solution. The word ‘flewat‘ is a less common variant of ‘flew at‘, meaning to rush or attack. With this solution in hand, I breathed a sigh of relief, happy to have applied my detective skills to complete the crossword puzzle.