The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word HEATS , but the solution may also be OPENERS which is one of the most recent solution (2018 in New York Times).
Prelims crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HEATS | 44 % | 5 |
| TRIALS | 22 % | 6 |
| INTROS | 22 % | 6 |
| OPENERS | 11 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Prelims
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- front matter
- foreword
- prepublication
- half title
- body matter
- title page
- body text
- prerelease
- frontispiece
- prodromus
- back matter
- end matter
Crossword Answer definitions
HEATS noun- Thermal energy.
- The condition or quality of being hot.
- An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- An undesirable amount of attention.
- The police.
- One or more firearms.
- A fastball.
- A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
- A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
- One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
- A hot spell.
- Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
- The output of a heating system.
- In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which alphas and omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
- To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
- To become hotter.
- To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- To arouse, to excite (sexually).
- (plural noun) A period of hot weather.
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 HEATS
- Track and field events
- Warms up
- Qualifying races
- Time trials
- Inflames
- Preliminary races
- Qualifiers
- Trials on tracks
- Prelims
- Meet prelims
More clues leading to the result TRIALS
- Tribulations' partners
- Crucibles
- Bar events
- Hardships
- Prelims
- Nuremberg events of 1945
- Qualifying rounds
- Court affairs
- Partner of tribulations
- They often accompany tribulations
More clues leading to the result INTROS
- Party pleasantries
- Emcee tasks
- Preambles
- They may begin "And now..."
- Lead-ins
- Beginning bits
- Emcees' jobs
- MCs prepare them
- Emcees' lines
- Musical lead-ins