Answer: BOIL
BOIL is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 124 times.
Referring Clues:
- Be hopping mad
 - Go over 212 degrees
 - Swelter
 - Be plenty hot
 - More than simmer
 - Seethe
 - Canning instruction
 - Be het up
 - Bring to 212 degrees
 - Fume
 - Recipe direction
 - Cook, as pasta
 - Heat to more than 212°, as water
 - Not merely warm
 - Bubble
 - Be angry
 - Be angry as heck
 - Change from liquid to gas
 - Get really hot
 - Cook, as eggs
 - Get really angry
 - Get good and steamed
 - Prepare grits
 - Turn to gas
 - Be upset
 - Sterilize, in a way
 - Prepare an egg, perhaps
 - Cook, in a way
 - Summarize, with "down"
 - With 30-Across, condense
 - Prepare, as water for tea
 - Prepare potatoes, in a way
 - Prepare water for pasta
 - Be very upset
 - Start to bubble on a stove
 - One way to make eggs
 - Cooking instruction
 - Cookbook direction
 - Cookbook instruction
 - Spaghetti recipe word
 - Cook campanelle
 - Prepare eggs, in a way
 - Bring water to 212 degrees
 - Be fervid
 - Simmer
 - Heat to 212 degrees
 - Cooking instruction, sometimes
 - Churn
 - Heat to 212°
 - Let off some steam
 - More than coddle
 - Do some poaching
 - Sterilize
 - Bring to a ___
 - Reach 212, maybe
 - Reach 212 degrees, perhaps
 - Reach 212 degrees F.
 - Make a 3-minute egg
 - Reduce, with "down"
 - Heat, as water
 - Cook, as lobsters
 - Get hot
 - Bubble, perhaps
 - Get red
 - Bring to 212 degrees F
 - Make drinkable, perhaps
 - Prepare, as rice
 - Prepare, as pasta
 - Painful sore
 - Recipe instruction
 - Minute Rice instruction
 - Bring to 212 degrees Fahrenheit
 - Go beyond simmering
 - Make bubbles, in a way
 - Produce steam
 - Start bubbling, perhaps
 - Be hot, hot, hot
 - Cook shrimp
 - Water starts to do this at 212°F
 - One way to cook eggs
 - Cook, as in a cauldron
 - Quiver with rage
 - Be hot under the collar
 - Cook cabbage
 - Very sore spot
 - Bubble up
 - Carbuncle
 - Cook in a cauldron
 - Get ready to rage
 - Heat water
 - Get steamed up
 - Pasta recipe direction
 - Directive in a pasta recipe
 - Be super-angry
 - Get ready to blow one's stack
 - Cook eggs, in a way
 - "Fillet of a fenny snake / In the cauldron ___ and bake": "Macbeth"
 - Get really steamed
 - Be hot
 - Make bubble
 - Cook, as cavatelli
 - Cook, as an unshelled egg
 - Prepare water for tea
 - Heat up, as water
 - Pasta recipe verb
 - Be agitated
 - With 65-Across, what a bad cook supposedly can't even do
 - Bubble, in a way
 - Prep, as water for pasta
 - "Bring to a ___" (recipe phrase)
 - Come to a ___ (start bubbling)
 - Start bubbling, say
 - Reach 212° F, as water
 - Instruction for cooking corn on the cob
 - Pasta recipe instruction
 - Simplify, with "down"
 - Lobster recipe verb
 - Be extremely angry
 - Bubble, as water
 - Recipe verb
 - Bring to 212°
 - Bubble rapidly, like water
 - Bring to a bubble
 - Cook in hot water
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - September 30, 2025
 - New York Times - August 13, 2025
 - USA Today - July 29, 2025
 - USA Today - June 13, 2025
 - New York Times - May 06, 2025
 - LA Times - February 09, 2025
 - LA Times - January 08, 2025
 - New York Times - November 17, 2024
 - LA Times - October 29, 2024
 - New York Times - October 13, 2024
 - USA Today - August 28, 2024
 - New York Times - August 21, 2024
 - New York Times - December 03, 2023
 - LA Times - November 26, 2023
 - New York Times - June 27, 2023
 - New York Times - August 16, 2022
 - New York Times - August 22, 2021
 - Universal - May 26, 2021
 - LA Times - April 11, 2021
 - Netword - September 20, 2020
 
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