Answer: SPICY
SPICY is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 37 times.
Referring Clues:
- Hot
 - A bit risqué
 - Like Creole cooking
 - Hot, on a Chinese menu
 - Like much Thai cuisine
 - Menu warning word
 - Highly seasoned
 - Like some meatballs
 - Pungent
 - Word on Chinese menus
 - Piquant
 - With a kick
 - Picante
 - Property of being highly seasoned
 - Not at all bland
 - Like much Cajun cuisine
 - Like Hunan food
 - Risqué
 - Hot to the tongue
 - Like chorizos and kimchi
 - Like vindaloo
 - High on the Scoville scale
 - Like gingersnaps
 - Like a hot curry
 - Like Thai food
 - Made with curry, say
 - Off-color
 - Like the Carolina Reaper pepper
 - Menu caution
 - How some like their sauces
 - Hot, as barbecue sauce
 - Hot, food-wise
 - Rated PG-13 or R, say
 - Like hot wings
 - Salacious
 - Like the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper
 - Like mapo tofu
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - September 01, 2025
 - USA Today - July 25, 2025
 - New York Times - January 10, 2025
 - LA Times - July 05, 2022
 - New York Times - March 19, 2022
 - USA Today - August 21, 2020
 - Netword - August 17, 2020
 - Netword - August 13, 2020
 - New York Times - December 28, 2019
 - Universal - November 02, 2019
 - New York Times - August 07, 2019
 - USA Today - February 27, 2019
 - LA Times - February 16, 2019
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 11, 2018
 - USA Today - December 27, 2017
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 17, 2017
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 05, 2017
 - Universal - January 07, 2017
 - LA Times - August 25, 2016
 - New York Times - July 10, 2016
 
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