Not very hot
The crossword clue "Not very hot" is answered by TEPID, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TEPID
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TEPID answer page.
Used 11 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TEPID
Every other clue in this collection answered by TEPID, most used first.
- Lukewarm - used 252 times, most recently in 2026
- Not so hot - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Halfhearted - used 40 times, most recently in 2024
- Unenthusiastic - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Half-hearted - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Barely warm - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Hardly enthusiastic - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Lacking enthusiasm - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Neither hot nor cold - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Luke warm - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Not too hot - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
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.
- Not quite right - AMISS, used 181 times
- Not a soul - NOONE, used 131 times
- Not together - APART, used 116 times
- Not moving - INERT, used 102 times
- "___ porridge hot ..." - PEASE, used 102 times
- Hot spot - SAUNA, used 71 times
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