Hot under the collar
The crossword clue "Hot under the collar" is answered by RILED, a 5-letter entry. Used 15 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2022. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RILED
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RILED answer page.
Used 15 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2022. 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
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Other clues for RILED
Every other clue in this collection answered by RILED, most used first.
- Irritated - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Ticked off - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
- Stirred up - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Worked (up) - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Annoyed - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Made angry - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Angered - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
- Upset - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Agitated - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Rubbed the wrong way - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Steamed - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Vexed - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- All worked up - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Het up - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Seeing red - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Got one's goat - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
- Irked - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Provoked - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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 the know - AWARE, used 356 times
- To the point - TERSE, used 194 times
- Take the wheel - STEER, used 188 times
- Cream of the crop - ELITE, used 175 times
- In the lead - AHEAD, used 166 times
- Of the kidneys - RENAL, used 166 times
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