"Hot" Mexican dish

The answer

TAMALE

6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TAMALE answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2018. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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• TAMALES (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for TAMALE

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

• Mexican dish - used 24 times, most recently in 2016
• Mexican entree - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
• Tex-Mex treat - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• "Chili today, hot ___" - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
• Hot ___ - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Steamed snack - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Tex-Mex snack - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• "Hot" Mexican food - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Mexican food - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
• Some like it hot - used 7 times, most recently in 2004
• South-of-the-border order - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Steamed dish - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• "Hot" dish - 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.

• Main dish - ENTREE, used 79 times
• Hot - STOLEN, used 78 times
• Shrimp dish - SCAMPI, used 50 times
• Brunch dish - OMELET, used 44 times
• Mexican shawl - SERAPE, used 43 times
• Egg dish - OMELET, used 37 times

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