- HEATS
- Track and field events
- Warms up
- Throws in the oven
- Qualifying races
- Time trials
- Inflames
- Preliminary races
- Qualifiers
- Trials on tracks
- Gets ready to eat, in a way
- Prelims
- Meet prelims
- Track events
- Nukes, so to speak
- Meet preliminaries
- Track races
- Parts of 19 Across
- Takes the chill off
- Makes warmer
- Warms
- Microwaves, as leftovers
- Some elimination rounds
- Trial rounds
- Race prelims
- Track prelims
- Warms, as food
- Intensifies, with "up"
- Warms up, as food
- Finals preceders
- Warms up in the oven
- Warms up, as dinner
- Puts in the oven
- Divisions of a contest.
- Divisions of a race.
- Preliminary rounds of races.
- Track meet preliminaries.
- Parts of a race.
- Track term.
- Preliminary events.
- Track meet events.
- Trial runs
- Preliminaries at a track meet
- Excites
- Certain competitions
- Qualifying track events
- Events at meets
- Begins to get exciting, with "up"
- Puts on the burner
- Early races
- Sticks in the oven
- Track meet divisions
- Some races
- Adds thermal energy to
- Microwaves, say
- Battle of bands events
- Events in battle of bands
- Puts on to boil
- Puts on the back burner?
- Increases molecular motion
- Makes warm
- Warms up, as leftovers
- Microwaves
- Uses the microwave
- Preliminary contests
- Qualifying events
- Torrefies
- Puts on the back burner, maybe
- Puts on a burner
- Provides warmth to
- Puts in the microwave
- Prelims, of sorts
- Race rounds
- Track rounds
- Race makeup
