Heat to near boiling

The answer

SCALD

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

Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SCALD

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

• Burn with steam - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
• Burn - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Burn with hot water - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Burn with water - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Almost boil - used 17 times, most recently in 2021
• Burn with liquid - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Nearly boil - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Burn with hot liquid - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Parboil - used 16 times, most recently in 2016
• Bring to a near boil - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Burn with a hot liquid - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Blanch - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Bring close to boiling - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Burn, in a way - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Cooking direction - used 7 times, most recently in 1991
• Recipe direction. - used 7 times, most recently in 2006

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• Island nation near Sicily - MALTA, used 36 times

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