Answer: HOT
HOT is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 279 times.
Referring Clues:
- On a roll
 - Steamy
 - Sweltering
 - Very popular
 - All the rage
 - Tap word
 - In great demand
 - Like chop-shop vehicles
 - In demand
 - Trendy
 - Sizzling
 - Recently stolen
 - Sexy
 - Popular
 - Like most salsa
 - Hard to keep in stock, say
 - Much sought-after
 - In
 - Flying off the shelves
 - Baking
 - Angry
 - Beach weather forecast
 - __ air (windbag's output)
 - Selling very well
 - __ Springs (Arkansas)
 - With 54-Across, throat soother
 - In, for now
 - Alluring
 - Babealicious
 - Currently "in"
 - Supertrendy
 - See 53-Down
 - Fresh from the oven
 - Mouth-burning
 - Stolen
 - Now in
 - With 59-Down, something flying off the shelves
 - Show-off
 - Right out of the oven
 - Extremely popular
 - Like habaneros
 - Like jalapeños
 - Like some peppers
 - Extremely spicy
 - Faucet word
 - Knee-slapper, with 8-Down
 - Peppery
 - 37-Across, to you and me
 - Boiling
 - Popular, and then some
 - In a rage
 - Sensational
 - Wildly popular
 - Selling fast
 - Spicy
 - Like a jalapeño
 - In a rage or all the rage
 - On a winning streak
 - Very much in demand
 - Radioactive
 - Word describing the answer to each of the starred clues
 - With 63-Across, 1972 Rolling Stones "greatest hits" album
 - Word with pot or potato
 - Word with water or dog
 - Fiery
 - Word on a faucet handle
 - Illegally obtained
 - Word with air or water
 - Like a live wire?
 - Word with pepper or pot
 - Picante
 - Much sought after
 - Just off the grill
 - Fenced, perhaps
 - Recent, as an escapee's trail
 - Like stolen goods
 - Controversial
 - In vogue
 - August forecast
 - Currently in
 - Like the Sahara
 - Right off the stove
 - Key to the puzzle's theme
 - Highly spiced
 - Summer forecast
 - ''Some Like It ___''
 - ''Pease Porridge ___''
 - Kind of pursuit
 - Word with "potato" and "pepper"
 - On everyone's A-list
 - How some like it
 - Like jalapeno peppers
 - "Pease porridge ___ ..."
 - Popular and then some
 - Just-baked
 - Heavy partner
 - Commercially popular
 - Really, really in
 - Blistering
 - Currently popular
 - Sought-after
 - How some like it, on screen
 - Enjoying a win streak
 - Much in demand
 - In now
 - Spicy-tasting
 - Like sauce with a kick
 - Racing up the charts
 - Very fashionable
 - Smokin'
 - Wanting to be near one's fans?
 - ___ rod
 - Stolen, slangily
 - Word on some faucet handles
 - In the 90s, weatherwise
 - Word before pink or after red
 - Gossip-worthy
 - Like the tropics
 - "Some Like It ___"
 - "Pease Porridge ___"
 - In the 90s
 - Very sexy
 - Like Korean cuisine
 - Burning up the tabloids
 - Fashionable
 - Likely to get asked out, probably
 - Hugely popular
 - Kind of tea
 - Fervid
 - ______ time
 - Wrathful
 - Like hell
 - ___ cross buns
 - "In"
 - Highly sought after
 - Torrid
 - Stolen, so to speak
 - Scorching
 - Like dog days
 - Just out of the oven
 - Carrying current
 - Like tens
 - Scalding
 - Piping
 - Simmering
 - Steaming
 - Piping- ___
 - Piping ___
 - Smoldering
 - Blazing
 - Wonderful, to Paris Hilton
 - Very stylish
 - Fashionable, and then some
 - Feverish
 - Sultry
 - All the rage - and a word that can precede each part of 20-, 39-, and 56-Across
 - Apt to turn heads
 - Ready to serve, maybe
 - Fresh off the grill
 - Ripped off
 - "Get 'em while they're ___!"
 - On a streak
 - Really sexy
 - Pungent
 - Like chop-shop cars
 - "Le Jazz ___" (Mancini song)
 - Super-popular
 - Sexy, slangily
 - She said Harrison ____Springs, British Columbia
 - Highly popular
 - ___ pants
 - Very attractive
 - Weather term spelled with the letters whose positions are indicated by wordplay at 17-, 37-, and 59-Across
 - Appreciative of the fans?
 - Chic, and then some
 - Spicy, as salsa
 - Approaching 98 degrees
 - Really selling
 - On a lucky streak
 - Quite spicy
 - With 55-Down, sore throat soother
 - Smoking, perhaps
 - Asian stew often eaten with a dipping sauce
 - Like some wings
 - ___ dog
 - Dog days forecast
 - Selling well
 - Like summer days
 - Like an active stove
 - Fresh out of the oven
 - 100+, say
 - Word with air or bed
 - Made with ghost peppers
 - ___ water
 - Like sriracha sauce
 - Word with wire or water
 - Selling really well
 - Trending
 - Fast-moving, as merchandise
 - What a red "H" often indicates
 - Word with air or dog
 - Like a fence's wares
 - Billboard ___ 100
 - ___ pursuit
 - ___ and bothered
 - Five-alarm, among chili enthusiasts
 - 100° or more, say
 - Selling like gangbusters
 - Sweating, maybe
 - Word with "water," "pepper" or "dog"
 - Like Arizona in August
 - Heading for the fence?
 - "wet ___ american summer"
 - Like summer
 - Very in
 - Like the dog days
 - Highly timely
 - Pungent or popular
 - Fast-selling
 - Flying up the charts
 - Top-selling
 - Popular, slangily
 - Adjective for August
 - ____ and bothered
 - Stolen, in slang
 - ____ to trot
 - Like Death Valley in summer
 - High on the Scoville scale
 - Having many fans ... or needing a fan?
 - Tropical
 - Soaring up the charts
 - ___ chocolate
 - Extremely lucky
 - Like a thief's loot, slangily
 - Going viral, say
 - Attractive
 - Like chili peppers
 - Like the summer sun
 - Very spicy
 - How some like it?
 - Ill-gotten, informally
 - Just taken from the oven
 - Flying off the shelves, so to speak
 - ___ under the collar
 - Faucet label
 - In high demand
 - Like the weather in Florida, often
 - One may reveal a secret
 - With 35-Down, precarious place
 - Letting off steam, say
 - Like freshly brewed coffee
 - With 60-Across, East Asian cuisine style
 - Like Hunan cuisine
 - Adjective after "red" or "white"
 - On fire
 - Word with tip or tub
 - Like Miami summers
 - Like some towels and topics
 - Like ghost peppers
 - What "C" faucets are in Italy, confusingly
 - Like the Carolina Reaper pepper
 - Megan Thee Stallion's "___ Girl Summer"
 - Over 100, say
 - "___ Ones" (show where celebrities eat spicy wings)
 - With 72-Across, post-sledding mugful
 - Like a pan right out of the oven
 - "___ enough for ya?"
 - Rhyme before "spot" or "shot"
 - Not chilly, like chili
 - Like sparks and fire
 - Like chili usually
 - Between 90 and 100, say
 - Much-sought-after
 - Selling quickly
 - Like supernovas
 - Like cayenne
 - Like Scotch bonnet peppers
 - Like lit barbecue coals
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - October 23, 2025
 - USA Today - October 01, 2025
 - New York Times - September 22, 2025
 - New York Times - August 21, 2025
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 - New York Times - July 11, 2025
 - LA Times - June 23, 2025
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 - New York Times - April 05, 2025
 - LA Times - April 01, 2025
 - New York Times - November 19, 2024
 - LA Times - October 09, 2024
 - LA Times - September 13, 2024
 - New York Times - June 19, 2024
 
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