Answer: ARSON
ARSON is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 202 times.
Referring Clues:
- It may involve gas
 - Bad lighting?
 - Some insurance fraud
 - "Backdraft" concern
 - "Backdraft" crime
 - Match play?
 - Result of a burning desire
 - Flareup of crime?
 - Fire-setting crime
 - Alarming felony?
 - Matching felony?
 - Light work?
 - Unlawful firing?
 - Flame throwing, maybe
 - Insurance ploy
 - Torcher's misdeed
 - Illegal firing
 - Gasoline may make it go
 - Lighting of a torch
 - Lighter offense?
 - Burning desire?
 - Illegal firing?
 - Fire work
 - Setting of a fire maliciously
 - Lighter charge
 - Crime for which one takes the heat
 - Flaming felony
 - Common insurance fraud
 - Illegal lighting?
 - Crime sometimes done for the insurance
 - Bad combustion
 - Criminal burning
 - Illegal match play?
 - Bad ignition?
 - Cause of something going up?
 - Burning issue
 - Subject of an insurance investigation
 - Firebug's crime
 - Fire work?
 - What a "torch" commits
 - Torch job
 - Fire for hire
 - Torch's crime
 - Pyromaniac's crime
 - Conflagration crime
 - Ignition problem?
 - Criminal match play
 - Incendiary offense
 - Illegal flaming
 - Fiery felony
 - Heated crime?
 - Fiery crime
 - Burning problem
 - Unlawful fire
 - An old flame's pastime?
 - Hot pursuit?
 - Flame blame, sometimes
 - Reason for a lighter conviction?
 - Hot topic in insurance
 - Crime that is suspected when accelerants are found
 - Reason for a lighter sentence?
 - What torches are put in the can for
 - Illicit ignition
 - Act of insurance fraud, perhaps
 - Flaming misdeed
 - Burning concern?
 - Unlawful firing
 - Property crime
 - Felonious flames
 - Fiery offense
 - Malicious burning
 - Burning crime
 - Cause of some fires
 - Firebug's felony
 - It may involve match play
 - Worst case of burning desire?
 - Fulfillment of a burning desire?
 - Firefighter's bane
 - Insurance-scamming crime
 - Incendiarism
 - Hot crime?
 - Crime with accelerants
 - Case for an insurance investigator
 - Common insurance fraud cause
 - Result of a burning passion?
 - Lighter charge?
 - It may result from a burning desire
 - Burning passion?
 - Hot crime topic?
 - Smokey Bear's worry
 - Bad burn?
 - One form of insurance fraud
 - Result of foul match play
 - Torcher's crime
 - Flaming offense
 - Fire setter's crime
 - Match job
 - Illegal setting?
 - Crime that may cause an alarm
 - Fire marshal's determination
 - Bad match result?
 - Not an accidental fire
 - Pyromaniac's passion
 - Foe of the forest
 - Illegal burning
 - Ignition trouble
 - Lighting problem?
 - Incendiary crime
 - Hot crime
 - Bad lighting
 - Bad lighting?
 - Unlawful fire-starting
 - Pyromaniac's work
 - Criminal match play?
 - Ignition charge?
 - Fire-setter's crime
 - Crime with special investigators
 - Finding from a fire investigator
 - Possible fire cause
 - Criminal fire
 - Malicious fire-setting
 - Bad case of burning desire?
 - Bad fire
 - Crime started with a match
 - Incendiary offence
 - Offence
 - Cause of everything going up?
 - Firebug's offense
 - Insurance fraud factor
 - Illegal fire
 - Illegal torching
 - Felonious fire
 - Problematic lighting?
 - Destructive crime
 - Firebug's intent
 - Cause of an insurance investigation
 - Burning issue?
 - Hot topic?
 - Crime in much insurance fraud
 - Insurance-fraud ploy
 - Firing crime?
 - Firing offense?
 - Flaming transgression
 - "code red" crime
 - Cause for an insurer's denial, maybe
 - Crime involving an accelerant
 - Felony fire
 - Bad flareup?
 - Flare-up of crime?
 - Firebug's doing
 - It might start with gas
 - Felon's burning ambition
 - Hot pursuit
 - Matches crime
 - Accelerant-caused offense
 - Torch's misdeed
 - Insurance fraud crime, perhaps
 - Firebug's action
 - Crime involving fire
 - Felon's burning ambition?
 - Heated felony?
 - Improper lighting?
 - Crime committed with bad lighting?
 - Crime that involves lighting?
 - Fire that's not accidental
 - Fire bug's transgression
 - Basis of some insurance fraud
 - Possible 51 Down cause
 - Fire-related crime
 - Torch's offense
 - Pyromaniac's act
 - Crime of combustion
 - Incendiarist' s thing
 - Fire-setting felony
 - Fire crime
 - Rap sheet entry, perhaps
 - Nero's alleged crime
 - Cause of insurance fraud
 - What starts with a spark of an idea?
 - Crime with lighting?
 - Firework?
 - Many an insurance-fraud crime
 - Misplay with matches?
 - Burner's offense
 - Setting for fraud, maybe
 - Felonious ignition
 - Light offense?
 - Part of insurance fraud, sometimes
 - Uncool crime?
 - Crime that might involve accelerants
 - Fire felony
 - Crime of fiery passion?
 - Crime investigated by an insurance company
 - Insurance fraud ploy
 - Firebug's activity
 - Crime in insurance investigations
 - Basis for an insurance investigation
 - Bad match on tinder?
 - Fire-starting crime
 - Hot topic in criminology?
 - Burning bridges, e.g.
 - What might bring down the house?
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 20, 2025
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 - New York Times - July 03, 2022
 - New York Times - August 29, 2021
 - LA Times - August 23, 2021
 - New York Times - May 26, 2021
 - New York Times - May 13, 2021
 - LA Times - April 29, 2021
 - New York Times - April 28, 2021
 
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