Hot dish

The answer

CHILI

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CHILI answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• TAMALE (6 uses in xd)
• CASSEROLE (1 uses in xd)
• FOURCHEESEPIZZA (1 uses in xd)
• PRETTYYOUNGLADY (1 uses in xd)
• SPICYMAINCOURSE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for CHILI

Every other clue in this collection answered by CHILI, most used first.

• Cook-off dish - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• __ con carne - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Texas cook-off dish - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Hot dog topping - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Some like it hot - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Five-alarm dish - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Hot pepper - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Hot stuff - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
• Kind of dog - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Hot dog topper - used 7 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Rice dish - PILAF, used 122 times
• "___ porridge hot ..." - PEASE, used 102 times
• Hot spot - SAUNA, used 71 times
• Hot under the collar - IRATE, used 65 times
• Not so hot - TEPID, used 55 times
• ___ dish - PETRI, used 52 times

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