Felonious flames
The crossword clue "Felonious flames" is answered by ARSON, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ARSON
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ARSON answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ARSON
Every other clue in this collection answered by ARSON, most used first.
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- Firebug's crime - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- Bad lighting? - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Pyromaniac's crime - used 60 times, most recently in 2025
- Fiery felony - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Fire-setting crime - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Burning desire? - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Hot crime - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Illegal firing? - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Incendiarism - used 23 times, most recently in 2019
- Burning crime - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Malicious burning - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
- Torch job - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- A felony. - used 17 times, most recently in 1989
- Match play? - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
- Incendiary crime - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Property crime - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Certain crime - used 11 times, most recently in 1976
- Illegal burning - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Torch's crime - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
- Unlawful firing? - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Fire crime - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Firebug's felony - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Firing offense? - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Heated crime? - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
- Pyro's passion - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- "Backdraft" crime - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Fire-related crime - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Flaming felony - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Felony - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Fire-starting crime - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Firebug's offense - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Hot pursuit? - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Torcher's misdeed - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- In flames - AFIRE, used 139 times
- Belching flames - AFIRE, used 9 times
- Belching flames, e.g. - AFIRE, used 9 times
- Engulfed in flames - AFIRE, used 8 times
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