The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word OVEN which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2025.
Hot spot crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| OVEN | 45 % | 4 |
| SAUNA | 16 % | 5 |
| STOVE | 7 % | 5 |
| SPA | 5 % | 3 |
| KILN | 4 % | 4 |
| HADES | 3 % | 5 |
| FURNACE | 3 % | 7 |
| TEA | 2 % | 3 |
| DESERT | 2 % | 6 |
| HELL | 2 % | 4 |
| INFERNO | 1 % | 7 |
| BOILER | 1 % | 6 |
| SAHARA | 1 % | 6 |
| HEARTH | 1 % | 6 |
| TUB | 1 % | 3 |
| OAST | 1 % | 4 |
| FIREPLACE | 1 % | 9 |
| TRENDYBAR | 0 % | 9 |
| RADIATOR | 0 % | 8 |
| TROPICS | 0 % | 7 |
| WHEREITSAT | 0 % | 10 |
| SCENE | 0 % | 5 |
| TINDERBOX | 0 % | 9 |
| TORRIDZONE | 0 % | 10 |
| GEYSER | 0 % | 6 |
| WIFIZONE | 0 % | 8 |
Why may HELL be the right solution?
The answer "HELL" is the right solution to the clue "Hot spot" because "HELL" is often associated with extreme heat and is commonly referred to as a place of intense heat and suffering.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Hot spot
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- fireground
- wildfire
- forest fire
- fireline
- firefront
- grassfire
- escape fire
- firelet
- firebreak
- jackpot
- bushfire
- wetline
Crossword Answer definitions
OVEN noun- A chamber used for baking or heating.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result OVEN
- Bakery fixture
- Baking chamber
- Cooking chamber
- Pizzeria fixture
- Pizzeria need
- Roasting chamber
- Tandoori, e.g.
- Cooking cavity
- Dutch __ (cooking utensil)
- Pizzeria facility
More clues leading to the result SAUNA
- Hot hangout
- Hot spot in the gym
- It makes you sweat
- Hot spot
- Spa soother
- Steam bath
- Post-exercise relaxer
- Where to sweat it out
- Gym amenity
- Finnish bath
More clues leading to the result STOVE
- Cooker
- Franklin __
- Kitchen appliance
- One of Franklin's inventions
- Hot ___ league
- Kettle setting
- Kitchen range
- Pilot's place
- Potbelly
- Hot spot?
More clues leading to the result SPA
- Fat farm
- Evian or Vichy
- Exercise center
- Fitness center
- Gym
- Health center
- Health resort
- Hot-tub spot
- Massage milieu
- Mineral-spring spot
More clues leading to the result KILN
- Drying oven
- Oven
- Potter's oven
- Ceramic oven
- Hot spot
- Firing location
- Place to get fired up
- Baking place
- Pot-baking place
- Fixture at a pottery
More clues leading to the result HADES
- Hot spot
- Mythological underworld
- Netherworld kingdom
- Persephone's husband
- The underworld
- A real hot spot?
- Underworld
- Netherworld
- Pluto's realm
- Greek underworld
More clues leading to the result FURNACE
- Sweltering spot
- Hot spot
- Heating aparatus
- Heat producer
- Heating unit.
- Central heating.
- Hot spot.
- Gary sight
- Grueling test
- Basement fixture
More clues leading to the result TEA
- Afternoon event
- Afternoon social
- Crumpets accompaniment
- Drink from a bag?
- Kind of bag
- Leaves in the bag
- Steeped beverage
- Afternoon brew
- Afternoon reception
- Afternoon social event
More clues leading to the result DESERT
- Abandon
- Leave in the lurch
- Painted, for one
- Defect
- Dry zone
- Dry land
- "The English Patient" setting
- Food ___ (place where affordable food is hard to come by)
- Nevada, mainly
- Run out on
More clues leading to the result HELL
- Nether world
- War, to Sherman
- War, it's said
- Fire station?
- Sinner's fate
- Inferno
- Infernal place
- Subject for Dante
- Perdition
- Subject for Bosch
More clues leading to the result INFERNO
- Dante's place?
- Divine Comedy division
- Hell
- Hot spot
- "Divine Comedy" opening
- Hellish place
- Dante's and Virgil's destination, in literature
- Summer day, it might seem
- Massive fire
- Oven
More clues leading to the result BOILER
- Water-heating tank
- Basement fixture
- Hot spot
- Heating component
- Heating system component
- Water heater
- Word after double or pot
- Big water heater
- Part of an old heating system
- Steam producer
More clues leading to the result SAHARA
- African desert
- Arid expanse
- It includes most of Libya
- Largest desert
- Most of Libya
- Desert region
- World's largest desert
- World's third-largest desert
- African sands
- African expanse
More clues leading to the result HEARTH
- Open-__ furnace
- The home
- Hot spot
- Fireside
- Warm part of the house
- Site for a fireside chat
- It's often under fire
- Vesta's place
- A crane may extend over it
- Home, symbolically
More clues leading to the result TUB
- Margarine container
- Clumsy craft
- Hot ___
- Soaking place
- Some like it hot
- Spread container
- Place to relax
- Where President Taft may or may not have gotten stuck
- "Hot ___ Time Machine" (film for which I was an executive producer)
- Ducky place to be?
More clues leading to the result OAST
- Kind of oven
- Brewer's kiln
- Brewery oven
- Kiln
- Malt dryer
- Kiln, for hops
- Drying oven
- Malt-drying kiln
- Kiln for hops
- Brewer's aid
More clues leading to the result FIREPLACE
- Winter warmer
- Hot spot
- Volcano's address?
- Source of warmth
- Hearth.
- Milieu for stockings.
- Cheery winter adjunct.
- House warmer
- With 12-Down, poker target
- Poker site
More clues leading to the result TRENDYBAR
More clues leading to the result RADIATOR
- It needs to be flushed occasionally
- Engine adjunct
- Coolant container
- Home heating unit
- Coil site
- Steam source
- Household hisser
- Auto part
- Heating device
- Heat source
More clues leading to the result TROPICS
- Portion of the earth around the equator
- Global rings
- Panama's locale
- Hot region, with "the"
- Hot spot, with "the"
- Hot belt, with "the"
- Hot spot
- Hot countries.
- Hotbed of hurricanes.
- Region for a winter holiday.
More clues leading to the result WHEREITSAT
- First video broadcast on MTV2 (8/1/96)
- The "in" place
- Place of central interest, man
- Best place to be, slangily ... and, when divided in four parts, what the answers to starred clues are?
- *"Happenin' scene, man!"
- Happening place ... or a hint to 18-, 23-, 39- and 51-Across?
- The place to be
- Happenin' place
- Hot spot
More clues leading to the result SCENE
- Act part
- Part of Hamlet
- Play part
- Public display
- Ruckus
- Tableau vivant, e.g.
- View
- Day's work for a director
- Play venue
- Where the action is
More clues leading to the result TINDERBOX
- Potentially explosive situation
- Place of potential violence
- Potentially explosive region
- Hot spot
- Volatile situation
- Volatile scenario
- Excitable person.
- Spitfire.
- Flint holder.
- Fire hazard of a sort.
More clues leading to the result TORRIDZONE
More clues leading to the result GEYSER
- Old Faithful, notably
- Yellowstone sight
- Hot spring
- Steam venter
- Natural water jet
- Yellowstone feature
- Yellowstone attraction
- Spouting spring
- Yellowstone's Giantess, for one
- Spewing hot spring