Answer: SCALD
SCALD is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 66 times.
Referring Clues:
- Burn with hot water
 - Almost boil
 - Heat to just short of boiling
 - Blast
 - Spill hot coffee on
 - Burn
 - Dump hot coffee on
 - Throw hot water on
 - Burn with hot liquid
 - Hot coffee hazard
 - Burn, in a way
 - Burn with steam
 - Bring to a near boil
 - Plunge into boiling water
 - Hurt with hot water
 - Burn with a hot liquid
 - Parboil
 - Don't quite boil
 - Get into hot water, maybe
 - Nearly boil
 - Blanch
 - Put in hot water, maybe
 - Burn badly
 - Really burn
 - Burn but good
 - Recipe direction
 - Boil
 - Prepare milk, perhaps
 - Bring almost to a boil
 - Burn with water
 - Sterilize with boiling water
 - Hot liquid burn
 - Get into hot water, possibly
 - Spill coffee on
 - Kitchen mishap
 - Get steamed?
 - Heat to near boiling
 - Get into hot water, in a way
 - A kind of burn
 - Burn with boiling water
 - Burn, in the tub
 - Bring close to boiling
 - Bring close to simmering
 - Burn, as milk
 - Burn with liquid
 - Hot tea hazard
 - Burn with coffee
 - Stop short of boiling
 - Bring to a near-boil
 - What hot coffee may do
 - Ironing injury
 - Burn caused by hot liquid
 - Scorch
 - Burn, as with hot coffee
 - Spill hot coffee on, say
 - Spill hot coffee on, perhaps
 - Spill coffee on, maybe
 - Cookbook direction
 - Heat milk, in recipes
 - Hot-water hazard
 - Almost bring to a boil
 - Spill hot soup on, say
 - Heat to nearly boiling, as milk
 - Get into hot water?
 - Heat almost to the point of boiling
 - Prep, as milk for custard
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - September 17, 2025
 - LA Times - July 22, 2025
 - LA Times - July 19, 2025
 - New York Times - February 06, 2024
 - LA Times - September 30, 2023
 - New York Times - August 05, 2023
 - USA Today - June 29, 2023
 - New York Times - June 04, 2023
 - LA Times - February 13, 2023
 - LA Times - March 13, 2022
 - Universal - May 14, 2021
 - USA Today - October 20, 2020
 - Netword - August 31, 2020
 - LA Times - June 25, 2020
 - Universal - May 30, 2020
 - Universal - April 09, 2020
 - USA Today - January 16, 2020
 - Netword - October 08, 2019
 - Netword - August 02, 2019
 - Netword - June 20, 2019
 
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