| Catch fire | Commuter | 23 Oct 2025 | 
          
            | Aloe target | LA Times Daily | 09 Oct 2025 | 
          
            | Undergo combustion (4) | Mirror Classic | 15 Sep 2025 | 
          
            | Blaze | USA Today Quick | 10 Sep 2025 | 
          
            | Sun ___, painful sting that'll make you say "ouch" after a fun day at the beach |  |  | 
          
            | Catch fire | Newsday | 15 Aug 2025 | 
          
            | Scorch (4) | Mirror Quick | 07 Aug 2025 | 
          
            | Singe top of branch and run off (4) | Mirror Cryptic | 07 Aug 2025 | 
          
            | Be alight, be in flames (4) | The Sun Mini | 29 Jul 2025 | 
          
            | Cold running water may soothe its pain (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Brooke, by the sound of it, a singular Scottish poet (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Scorch: - the steaks |  |  | 
          
            | Running water is inflammable? (4) |  |  | 
          
            | 2013 UK No 1 single by Ellie Goulding (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Scald |  |  | 
          
            | Book ? last of all you order on Kindle |  |  | 
          
            | Set fire to Swiss capital, we hear (4) |  |  | 
          
            | In Scotland, a stream or small river (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Char in Scottish stream (4) |  |  | 
          
            | To leave Burton to go red in the sun (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Doesn't sound like a cool stream in Scotland? (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Fire injury (4) | Puzzler | 07 May 2025 | 
          
            | To be on fire |  |  | 
          
            | Injury caused by heat or fire(4) |  |  | 
          
            | Poet from Scotland has no end of lines for small stream locally (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook, as a steak | Newsday | 08 Apr 2025 | 
          
            | "Hamilton" song during which Eliza lights letters on fire |  |  | 
          
            | Feel very hot stream (4) |  |  | 
          
            | To greatly overcook food (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Fire and water? | The Sun Two Speed | 19 Mar 2025 | 
          
            | Overcook | The Sun Two Speed | 19 Mar 2025 | 
          
            | British vessel in stream (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Be on fire | Mirror Classic | 11 Mar 2025 | 
          
            | About a spy out in the cold (___- Notice) |  |  | 
          
            | What is a small stream called in Scotland? (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Injure in fire (4) |  |  | 
          
            | "___ the midnight oil" (work late) |  |  | 
          
            | Go up in smoke (4) | The Guardian Quick | 06 Feb 2025 | 
          
            | Slow ___, phrase for a patient person becoming slowly impatient |  |  | 
          
            | Be ablaze (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Rub madly at one point - itch (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Scorch or roast to the extreme |  |  | 
          
            | Incinerate | Commuter | 03 Jan 2025 | 
          
            | Commit to the flames (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Injury by degrees? |  |  | 
          
            | An injury caused by heat (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Set alight: - the evidence |  |  | 
          
            | Set fire to water (4) |  |  | 
          
            | More than char, say |  |  | 
          
            | Be on fire | Mirror Classic | 06 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | *Freezer ___, damage that happens in the cold, and a common oxymoron |  |  | 
          
            | Gordon -, author of novels Alma Cogan and Born Yesterday |  |  | 
          
            | Have a hot desire (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Gordon -, author of novels Alma Cogan and Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel | Mirror Quiz | 02 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | Consume by fire (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Muscle pain, be passionate & copy disc (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Get too much sun | LA Times Daily | 05 Oct 2024 | 
          
            | Running water can act like acid! (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Catch fire | Newsday | 22 Sep 2024 | 
          
            | Incinerate | The Telegraph Quick | 12 Sep 2024 | 
          
            | ___- after Reading, movie starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt (4) |  |  | 
          
            | In Scotland running water may burst into flame (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Ruin, as a toast |  |  | 
          
            | A heat injury (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Be on fire | Mirror Classic | 29 Aug 2024 | 
          
            | What arsonists yearn to do (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook | LA Times Daily | 11 Aug 2024 | 
          
            | Scottish poet avoiding southern stream | The Times Quick Cryptic | 06 Aug 2024 | 
          
            | Catch fire | Newsday | 29 Jul 2024 | 
          
            | A narrow stream, but long (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Singular Scottish poet to commit to the flames? (4) |  |  | 
          
            | In Scotland and northern England, a small stream or brook (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Set light to British vessel (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Want very much to get rid of the evidence? (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Be on fire | Mirror Classic | 26 Jun 2024 | 
          
            | Some water in Scotland may prove scorching (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Black vessel set alight |  |  | 
          
            | Waste | LA Times Daily | 21 Jun 2024 | 
          
            | Combust | The Times Concise | 15 Jun 2024 | 
          
            | Set fire to black funerary container (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Turn black, as toast |  |  | 
          
            | Combust | The Telegraph Quick | 13 May 2024 | 
          
            | Go in flames | TV | 12 May 2024 | 
          
            | Blaze | The Sun Mini | 10 May 2024 | 
          
            | Poet not south of stream in his native land (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Go up stream | The Sun Two Speed | 01 May 2024 | 
          
            | Overcook | The Sun Two Speed | 01 May 2024 | 
          
            | Insult | LA Times Daily | 29 Apr 2024 | 
          
            | Cutting insult | New York Times | 19 Apr 2024 | 
          
            | Set fire to British vase (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Unwanted beach souvenir | LA Times Daily | 15 Apr 2024 | 
          
            | Destroy by fire | Mirror Classic | 15 Apr 2024 | 
          
            | Run away after bonfire starts to get hot (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Poet not quite finishing 'Flower of Scotland' |  |  | 
          
            | Insult poet when single? (4) |  |  | 
          
            | "We'll ___ that bridge when we get to it," example of 50a that predicts a mess in the future |  |  | 
          
            | Set fire to a stream in Scotland (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Combust little stream in the North (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Be too hot, as water (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook | The Sun Two Speed | 14 Feb 2024 | 
          
            | Black vessel in stream | The Sun Two Speed | 14 Feb 2024 | 
          
            | Damage by fire comprehended by Wilbur, necessarily (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Injury calling for running water? |  |  | 
          
            | Slow ___, phrase for a patient person becoming slowly impatient |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook | Puzzler Backwords | 29 Jan 2024 | 
          
            | "___ a er reading" |  |  | 
          
            | Smart black vase | The Times Quick Cryptic | 09 Jan 2024 | 
          
            | Ruin in the oven | Wall Street Journal | 18 Dec 2023 | 
          
            | Seethe | Newsday | 07 Dec 2023 | 
          
            | Northern stream starts to build up really nicely (4) |  |  | 
          
            | Go up in flames | The Guardian Quick | 06 Dec 2023 | 
          
            | Star-studded comedy from the Coen brothers, ___ After Reading |  |  | 
          
            | Singe | Puzzler Backwords | 20 Nov 2023 | 
          
            | Char, as food |  |  | 
          
            | What candles do after they're 22-Across | Family Time | 06 Nov 2023 | 
          
            | What a freezer can do, paradoxically | New York Times | 02 Nov 2023 | 
          
            | Fire injury | The Guardian Quick | 12 Oct 2023 | 
          
            | Overcook | Thomas Joseph | 19 Jul 2023 | 
          
            | Cook too long | USA Today | 14 Jul 2023 | 
          
            | Go up in smoke | The Times Concise | 09 Jul 2023 | 
          
            | Ruin in the oven | Newsday | 11 Jun 2023 | 
          
            | Become charred, as food |  |  | 
          
            | "You just got roasted!" | Universal | 24 May 2023 | 
          
            | Effective insult | Wall Street Journal | 12 May 2023 | 
          
            | Really overcook | Newsday | 07 May 2023 | 
          
            | Cook for too long | USA Today | 15 Apr 2023 | 
          
            | Overcook | Newsday | 05 Apr 2023 | 
          
            | Incinerate | The Telegraph Quick | 03 Mar 2023 | 
          
            | Turn to ashes |  |  | 
          
            | Cook for too long, say | New York Times | 30 Jan 2023 | 
          
            | Ruin, as a toast |  |  | 
          
            | Effective insult | Wall Street Journal | 04 Jan 2023 | 
          
            | "Hamilton" song about destroying love letters, or what one can do to the ends of the answers to the starred clues | LA Times Daily | 02 Jan 2023 | 
          
            | Effective insult | Wall Street Journal | 13 Dec 2022 | 
          
            | Smoulder | The Telegraph Quick | 02 Dec 2022 | 
          
            | Feel very hot with pain from exercise | The Telegraph Cryptic | 29 Nov 2022 | 
          
            | Terminate from an agency, in spy lingo | New York Times | 01 Sep 2022 | 
          
            | Severely overcook | LA Times Daily | 15 Aug 2022 | 
          
            | Aloe might soothe it | Universal | 12 Aug 2022 | 
          
            | Feel hot; stream | The Times Concise | 11 Aug 2022 | 
          
            | Be on fire | The Telegraph Quick | 06 Aug 2022 | 
          
            | Small stream not enough for poet | The Guardian Cryptic | 04 Jul 2022 | 
          
            | Turn black, as toast |  |  | 
          
            | Incinerate | The Telegraph Quick | 28 Apr 2022 | 
          
            | Poet’s endless stream | The Times Cryptic | 06 Apr 2022 | 
          
            | Overcook | Thomas Joseph | 09 Feb 2022 | 
          
            | Hates leaving sunbather to soak up too much of the sun | Irish Times Crosaire | 02 Feb 2022 | 
          
            | Small cake king’s involved in — and what some thus did? | The Times Cryptic | 18 Jan 2022 | 
          
            | Set on fire | The Telegraph Quick | 12 Nov 2021 | 
          
            | Small northern stream | The Times Concise | 28 Oct 2021 | 
          
            | Brand of British vessel |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook on the grill | USA Today | 04 Aug 2021 | 
          
            | "We'll ___ the Sky," song by Scorpions from their album "Taken by Force" |  |  | 
          
            | Overdo as food? |  |  | 
          
            | Hates leaving sunbather to soak up too much of the sun | Irish Times Crosaire | 19 May 2021 | 
          
            | Be angry | New York Times | 16 May 2021 | 
          
            | Overcook | The Sun Two Speed | 26 Mar 2021 | 
          
            | Go up river | The Sun Two Speed | 26 Mar 2021 | 
          
            | Turn to ashes |  |  | 
          
            | Flowing water to be hot | The Telegraph Cryptic | 11 Feb 2021 | 
          
            | Black vessel in stream | The Sun Two Speed | 06 Jan 2021 | 
          
            | Scorch | Eugene Sheffer | 06 Nov 2020 | 
          
            | Fire and water in Scotland | The Sun Two Speed | 20 Oct 2020 | 
          
            | Scorch | Family Time | 18 Oct 2020 | 
          
            | Cook for too long | USA Today | 28 Sep 2020 | 
          
            | Set on fire |  |  | 
          
            | Small stream | The Times Concise | 09 Jul 2020 | 
          
            | "Love to ___," 1990 song by Neil Young from the album "Ragged Glory" |  |  | 
          
            | "Sick" insult | LA Times Daily | 14 Jun 2020 | 
          
            | 'Sick' insult | The Washington Post | 14 Jun 2020 | 
          
            | Go up stream | The Sun Two Speed | 07 Jun 2020 | 
          
            | Destroy by fire | The Telegraph Quick | 23 May 2020 | 
          
            | Well-delivered insult | Wall Street Journal | 30 Apr 2020 | 
          
            | Severely overcook | LA Times Daily | 27 Apr 2020 | 
          
            | Severely overcook | The Washington Post | 27 Apr 2020 | 
          
            | Set on fire |  |  | 
          
            | Bank's business concern or brand | Irish Times Crosaire | 16 Mar 2020 | 
          
            | Black vessel in stream |  |  | 
          
            | Effective insult, in slang | USA Today | 30 Dec 2019 | 
          
            | Set on fire | New York Times | 02 Dec 2019 | 
          
            | Set on fire |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook |  |  | 
          
            | "Sick insult, dude!" | LA Times Daily | 09 Oct 2019 | 
          
            | 'Sick insult, dude!' | The Washington Post | 09 Oct 2019 | 
          
            | Scorch | Thomas Joseph | 08 Oct 2019 | 
          
            | Overdo on the hibachi | USA Today | 08 Sep 2019 | 
          
            | Overcook |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook considerably | Newsday | 23 Jun 2019 | 
          
            | Overdo on the grill | USA Today | 11 Jun 2019 | 
          
            | Deplete | Newsday | 01 Jun 2019 | 
          
            | Incinerate | The Times Concise | 12 May 2019 | 
          
            | Stream; feel hot | The Times Concise | 19 Apr 2019 | 
          
            | Shout after a good dig | The New Yorker | 18 Mar 2019 | 
          
            | Poet losing son in stream |  |  | 
          
            | "Sick insult, dude!" |  |  | 
          
            | Overdo on the hibachi |  |  | 
          
            | Overdo on the grill |  |  | 
          
            | Char in stream |  |  | 
          
            | Fire and water? | The Sun Two Speed | 22 Oct 2018 | 
          
            | Overdo in the oven | USA Today | 11 Oct 2018 | 
          
            | Water flowing from black vessel | The Telegraph Toughie | 24 Jul 2018 | 
          
            | What cordwood will do | Universal | 21 Jul 2018 | 
          
            | Sunbather's risk | USA Today | 08 Jun 2018 | 
          
            | Insult, in slang | Wall Street Journal | 10 May 2018 | 
          
            | Defraud, so to speak | Newsday | 01 Feb 2018 | 
          
            | Set alight | The Telegraph Quick | 06 Jan 2018 | 
          
            | Overdo in the oven |  |  | 
          
            | Insult, in slang |  |  | 
          
            | Sunbather's risk |  |  | 
          
            | What cordwood will do |  |  | 
          
            | Poet denied sun and water |  |  | 
          
            | Capital B for Brook |  |  | 
          
            | Effective insult | Wall Street Journal | 21 Oct 2017 | 
          
            | Insult, in slang | The Washington Post Sunday | 24 Sep 2017 | 
          
            | Scorch, or set on fire |  |  | 
          
            | Catch fire | Newsday | 26 Jun 2017 | 
          
            | Sunbathe too long | USA Today | 24 May 2017 | 
          
            | Rocket engine's firing | Wall Street Journal | 25 Feb 2017 | 
          
            | Sunbathe too long |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook, and then some | USA Today | 21 Nov 2016 | 
          
            | Go up | Wall Street Journal | 09 Nov 2016 | 
          
            | Set on fire | Family Time | 06 Nov 2016 | 
          
            | Sunbathing risk | Universal | 18 Jul 2016 | 
          
            | Scottish brook | The Telegraph Quick | 05 May 2016 | 
          
            | Use up running water | The Telegraph Toughie | 08 Apr 2016 | 
          
            | Ruin in the kitchen | LA Times Daily | 03 Apr 2016 | 
          
            | Overcook | Newsday | 23 Mar 2016 | 
          
            | Catch light; stream | The Times Concise | 22 Mar 2016 | 
          
            | Assemble, as a music CD | Newsday | 28 Feb 2016 | 
          
            | Incinerate | USA Today | 23 Feb 2016 | 
          
            | Scorch | The Washington Post | 22 Feb 2016 | 
          
            | Labouring without logia - would you expect that to happen in the sun? | Irish Times Crosaire | 04 Feb 2016 | 
          
            | Rub the wrong way and get hurt |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook on the barbecue | Family Time | 24 Jan 2016 | 
          
            | Sunbathing risk |  |  | 
          
            | Set fire to | USA Today | 22 Oct 2015 | 
          
            | Set ablaze | Newsday | 27 Aug 2015 | 
          
            | Scald, e.g | New York Times | 07 Jun 2015 | 
          
            | Commit arson | USA Today | 01 Mar 2015 | 
          
            | Cheat, in slang | LA Times Daily | 21 Feb 2015 | 
          
            | Copy, as 34 Down | Newsday | 19 Feb 2015 | 
          
            | Commit arson |  |  | 
          
            | Cheat, in slang |  |  | 
          
            | Squander |  |  | 
          
            | Copy, as 34 Down |  |  | 
          
            | Set ablaze |  |  | 
          
            | Go up in smoke |  |  | 
          
            | Set fire to |  |  | 
          
            | Machine Head "___ My Eyes" |  |  | 
          
            | Scald, e.g. |  |  | 
          
            | Feel very hot running water? |  |  | 
          
            | Blacken water in Scotland |  |  | 
          
            | Smart runner |  |  | 
          
            | What Van Halen's "hot shoe" would do down the avenue, in "Panama" |  |  | 
          
            | Expend, as fuel |  |  | 
          
            | Cheat |  |  | 
          
            | Use, as energy |  |  | 
          
            | Seriously overcook |  |  | 
          
            | Seethe |  |  | 
          
            | Sunbather's risk |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook on the barbecue |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook on the grill |  |  | 
          
            | Make, as a DVD copy |  |  | 
          
            | Become charred |  |  | 
          
            | Get very hot water |  |  | 
          
            | Sunbathe too long |  |  | 
          
            | Make, as a CD |  |  | 
          
            | Cheat, so to speak |  |  | 
          
            | Heat-related injury |  |  | 
          
            | Dermatologist's concern |  |  | 
          
            | Make, as a copy of a CD |  |  | 
          
            | Swindle, slangily |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook |  |  | 
          
            | Swindle, slangily |  |  | 
          
            | Be consumed, possibly |  |  | 
          
            | Blow a 5-Across |  |  | 
          
            | Use as fuel |  |  | 
          
            | Swindle |  |  | 
          
            | Blow a 5-Across |  |  | 
          
            | Scorch |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook badly |  |  | 
          
            | Heat injury |  |  | 
          
            | It's felt in gyms |  |  | 
          
            | Make, as a CD |  |  | 
          
            | Lay out for too long |  |  | 
          
            | Set on fire |  |  | 
          
            | Use up |  |  | 
          
            | Rate at which a company uses cash |  |  | 
          
            | Seethe |  |  | 
          
            | Use up |  |  | 
          
            | *___ center |  |  | 
          
            | Copy, as a CD |  |  | 
          
            | Overdo in the oven |  |  | 
          
            | Singe |  |  | 
          
            | Be in the sun too long |  |  | 
          
            | Hold a candle to? |  |  | 
          
            | Make, as a CD copy |  |  | 
          
            | Set fire to |  |  | 
          
            | It's measured in degrees |  |  | 
          
            | Squander |  |  | 
          
            | Set fire to |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook |  |  | 
          
            | Squander |  |  | 
          
            | Seriously break the trust of, slangily |  |  | 
          
            | Make, as a CD copy |  |  | 
          
            | Make, as CDs |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook badly |  |  | 
          
            | Scorch |  |  | 
          
            | Freezer mishap |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook, as a roast |  |  | 
          
            | Really overcook |  |  | 
          
            | Beachgoer's woe |  |  | 
          
            | Ruin, in the kitchen |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook |  |  | 
          
            | Word with freezer or slow |  |  | 
          
            | Make, as a CD |  |  | 
          
            | Swindle, slangily |  |  | 
          
            | Record, these days |  |  | 
          
            | Cauterize |  |  | 
          
            | Make angry |  |  | 
          
            | Beach woe |  |  | 
          
            | Create, as a CD |  |  | 
          
            | Overdo, on the grill |  |  | 
          
            | Stay too long on the beach |  |  | 
          
            | Consume, in a way |  |  | 
          
            | Go up in smoke |  |  | 
          
            | Overdo tanning |  |  | 
          
            | Swindle |  |  | 
          
            | Encode data onto a CD |  |  | 
          
            | Freezer damage? |  |  | 
          
            | Combust |  |  | 
          
            | Combust |  |  | 
          
            | Go up in smoke |  |  | 
          
            | Squander |  |  | 
          
            | Make, as a CD |  |  | 
          
            | Put to flame |  |  | 
          
            | Really overcook |  |  | 
          
            | Destroy, perhaps |  |  | 
          
            | Scorch |  |  | 
          
            | Torch |  |  | 
          
            | Really overcook |  |  | 
          
            | Do a slow __ |  |  | 
          
            | Beachgoer's worry |  |  | 
          
            | It might be slow |  |  | 
          
            | Combust |  |  | 
          
            | Combust |  |  | 
          
            | Become charred |  |  | 
          
            | Poet's endless stream |  |  | 
          
            | Over___brown |  |  | 
          
            | Get hot under the collar |  |  | 
          
            | Commit arson |  |  | 
          
            | Incinerate |  |  | 
          
            | Scorch |  |  | 
          
            | Incinerate |  |  | 
          
            | Glow brightly |  |  | 
          
            | Freezer ___ (result of poor packaging) |  |  | 
          
            | Sunbathing risk |  |  | 
          
            | '69 Brando film |  |  | 
          
            | Squander |  |  | 
          
            | Ruin the roast |  |  | 
          
            | Scorch |  |  | 
          
            | Beachgoer's worry |  |  | 
          
            | Overcook |  |  | 
          
            | 1970 Brando movie |  |  | 
          
            | Overdo on the range |  |  | 
          
            | Dissipate |  |  | 
          
            | Torch |  |  | 
          
            | Sunbather's bane |  |  | 
          
            | Char |  |  | 
          
            | Smolder, e.g. |  |  | 
          
            | Sear |  |  | 
          
            | Yearn ardently |  |  | 
          
            | Word with sun or wind |  |  | 
          
            | Prove not to be fireproof |  |  | 
          
            | Feel the sun |  |  | 
          
            | Do a slow ___ |  |  | 
          
            | Squander, as money |  |  | 
          
            | British brook |  |  | 
          
            | Put to the flambeau. |  |  | 
          
            | Shine. |  |  | 
          
            | Go up in smoke. |  |  | 
          
            | "___ Notice" |  |  | 
          
            | Scottish brook. |  |  | 
          
            | Result of too much sun. |  |  | 
          
            | Shine |  |  | 
          
            | Singe. |  |  | 
          
            | Flame. |  |  | 
          
            | Overdo, as the toast. |  |  | 
          
            | Result of sunshine. |  |  | 
          
            | Get angry |  |  | 
          
            | Scorch. |  |  | 
          
            | Give light. |  |  | 
          
            | Blaze. |  |  | 
          
            | Scottish stream. |  |  | 
          
            | Give out light. |  |  | 
          
            | Hold one's feet to the fire? |  |  | 
          
            | Put onto DVD |  |  | 
          
            | Brook: Scot. |  |  | 
          
            | Cauterize. |  |  | 
          
            | Oxidize. |  |  |