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Answer for the clue "Totally determined, and a literal description of this puzzle's circled letters ", 8 letters:
hellbent

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HellBent is a book by Anthony McGowan , published in 2005. It tells the story of Connor O'Neil and his dog , who are killed by an ice cream truck and sent to hell. It was received very well, despite being called "Down-right disgusting just for the sake ...

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a. recklessly determined to do or achieve something

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also hell-bent , 1835, U.S., originally slang, from hell + bent (1).

Usage examples of hellbent.

His manner was officious, his expression suggesting he was hellbent on thwarting me.

Gladstone with his assorted bottles and gamy socks in one of his half sober moments hellbent on reading me the letter of the law, U.

Fifty yards from the end of the trail I hear a pounding driving hellbent noise.

Denis see it, and Denis had some major adjustments to the world-as-it-was yet to make, some edges yet to be worn off his hellbent sense of right and proper.

And so hellbent is he to build London up into the greatest city in the world that he drives us to the ditch with his tax collectors!

If the Valo-rians are hellbent on conquest, they can advance their cause best by sowing confusion, by knocking off authority wherever they find it.

The man was positively outrageous, hellbent on seduction with a single-mindedness that made her fear for her resolve.

If I say nothing-or if you keep jamming and I'm not allowed to say anything-those boys come in hellbent for blood and with itchy trigger fingers on real Sidewinders.