Preliminary race
The crossword clue "Preliminary race" is answered by HEAT, a 4-letter entry. Used 23 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
HEAT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HEAT answer page.
Used 23 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for HEAT
Every other clue in this collection answered by HEAT, most used first.
- Warmth - used 57 times, most recently in 2025
- Miami team - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Furnace output - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Pressure - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
- Kind of wave - used 26 times, most recently in 2022
- Qualifying race - used 23 times, most recently in 2022
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.
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