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Aims low: close to grass (5)

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means

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'aims' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to thinking as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'low close to grass' is the wordplay.
'low' becomes 'mean' (both can mean nasty).
'close to' says to take the final letters (the close of something is the end).
The last letter of 'grass' is 's'.
'mean'+'s'='MEANS'

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(Other definitions for means that I've seen before include "Money - is significant" , "Resources; intends" , "Available resources" , "Intends; wealth" , "way" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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