Referring Clues

• On a roll
• Steamy
• Sweltering
• Very popular
• All the rage
• Tap word
• In great demand
• Like chop-shop vehicles
• In demand
• Trendy
• Sizzling
• Recently stolen
• Sexy
• Popular
• Like most salsa
• Hard to keep in stock, say
• Much sought-after
• In
• Flying off the shelves
• Baking
• Angry
• Beach weather forecast
• ___ air (windbag's output)
• Selling very well
• ___ Springs (Arkansas)
• With 54-Across, throat soother
• In, for now
• Alluring
• Babealicious
• Currently "in"
• Supertrendy
• See 53-Down
• Fresh from the oven
• Mouth-burning
• Stolen
• Now in
• With 59-Down, something flying off the shelves
• Show-off
• Right out of the oven
• Extremely popular
• Like habaneros
• Like jalapeños
• Like some peppers
• Extremely spicy
• Faucet word
• Knee-slapper, with 8-Down
• Peppery
• 37-Across, to you and me
• Boiling
• Popular, and then some
• In a rage
• Sensational
• Wildly popular
• Selling fast
• Spicy
• Like a jalapeño
• In a rage or all the rage
• On a winning streak
• Very much in demand
• Radioactive
• Word describing the answer to each of the starred clues
• With 63-Across, 1972 Rolling Stones "greatest hits" album
• Word with pot or potato
• Word with water or dog
• Fiery
• Word on a faucet handle
• Illegally obtained
• Word with air or water
• Like a live wire?
• Word with pepper or pot
• Picante
• Much sought after
• Just off the grill
• Fenced, perhaps
• Recent, as an escapee's trail
• Like stolen goods
• Controversial
• In vogue
• August forecast
• Currently in
• Like the Sahara
• Right off the stove
• Key to the puzzle's theme
• Highly spiced
• Summer forecast
• "Some Like It ___"
• "Pease Porridge ___"
• Kind of pursuit
• Word with "potato" and "pepper"
• On everyone's A-list
• How some like it
• Like jalapeno peppers
• "Pease porridge ___ ..."
• Popular and then some
• Just-baked
• Heavy partner
• Commercially popular
• Really, really in
• Blistering
• Currently popular
• Sought-after
• How some like it, on screen
• Enjoying a win streak
• Much in demand
• In now
• Spicy-tasting
• Like sauce with a kick
• Racing up the charts
• Very fashionable
• Smokin'
• Wanting to be near one's fans?
• ___ rod
• Stolen, slangily
• Word on some faucet handles
• In the 90s, weatherwise
• Word before pink or after red
• Gossip-worthy
• Like the tropics
• "Some Like It ___"
• "Pease Porridge ___"
• In the 90s
• Very sexy
• Like Korean cuisine
• Burning up the tabloids
• Fashionable
• Likely to get asked out, probably
• Hugely popular
• Kind of tea
• Fervid
• ______ time
• Wrathful
• Like hell
• ___ cross buns
• "In"
• Highly sought after
• Torrid
• Stolen, so to speak
• Scorching
• Like dog days
• Just out of the oven
• Carrying current
• Like tens
• Scalding
• Piping
• Simmering
• Steaming
• Piping- ___
• Piping ___
• Smoldering
• Blazing
• Wonderful, to Paris Hilton
• Very stylish
• Fashionable, and then some
• Feverish
• Sultry
• All the rage - and a word that can precede each part of 20-, 39-, and 56-Across
• Apt to turn heads
• Ready to serve, maybe
• Fresh off the grill
• Ripped off
• "Get 'em while they're ___!"
• On a streak
• Really sexy
• Pungent
• Like chop-shop cars
• "Le Jazz ___" (Mancini song)
• Super-popular
• Sexy, slangily
• She said Harrison ____Springs, British Columbia
• Highly popular
• ___ pants
• Very attractive
• Weather term spelled with the letters whose positions are indicated by wordplay at 17-, 37-, and 59-Across
• Appreciative of the fans?
• Chic, and then some
• Spicy, as salsa
• Approaching 98 degrees
• Really selling
• On a lucky streak
• Quite spicy
• With 55-Down, sore throat soother
• Smoking, perhaps
• Asian stew often eaten with a dipping sauce
• Like some wings
• ___ dog
• Dog days forecast
• Selling well
• Like summer days
• Like an active stove
• Fresh out of the oven
• 100+, say
• Word with air or bed
• Made with ghost peppers
• ___ water
• Like sriracha sauce
• Word with wire or water
• Selling really well
• Trending
• Fast-moving, as merchandise
• What a red "H" often indicates
• Word with air or dog
• Like a fence's wares
• Billboard ___ 100
• ___ pursuit
• ___ and bothered
• Five-alarm, among chili enthusiasts
• 100° or more, say
• Selling like gangbusters
• Sweating, maybe
• Word with "water," "pepper" or "dog"
• Like Arizona in August
• Heading for the fence?
• "wet ___ american summer"
• Like summer
• Very in
• Like the dog days
• Highly timely
• Pungent or popular
• Very warm
• Burning
• Like summer weather
• Opposite of cold
• Not cold
• ___ Potato
• Label on a faucet
• Like a day in July
• Like summer temperatures
• Like a furnace
• Not cool, as weather
• Weather word
• Like August
• Word overused by Paris Hilton
• Some photos may be spicy
• More than just warm
• Far from cold
• Like burning coals
• Like the middle of summer
• Peppers' "One ___ Minute"
• What Buster Poindexter felt
• Kix "___ Wire"
• Stones "I'm so ___ for her, and she's so cold"
• Flaming - stolen
• Heated
• A cold denial
• Overheated useless house at the end of the street
• Nude photo taken
• Flaming - spicy
• Piping can be jazzy!
• Very good at baking?
• On one's heels, apt to burn?
• Expert piping?
• Burning with anger
• Not all photos are steamy
• Recently stolen or cooked
• Steamy bit of photography?
• Return to Southend when it's sunny
• Recently stolen from a hotel
• Good and angry!
• Headed for the fence, perhaps
• Intense - illegal - dangerous
• Stolen - sought after
• Henry has books stolen
• Ultrapopular
• Like a jalapeno
• Hard to keep in stock
• Fast-selling
• With 60 Across, "Yippee!"
• Appreciative of the fans?
• Like Tabasco sauce
• Easter treat, ___ cross bun
• Sexy photo's centrepiece
• Sexy entertainer's no saint
• Like typical desert weather
• With 4 Down, strong opinion offered shortly after a news event
• At the end of August, the house is overheated
• Of high temperature
• Flying up the charts
• Red letter indication
• Warm
• Top-selling
• Popular, slangily
• U-turn from 48-Down
• Red ___ Chili Peppers
• Very spicy
• Above 100, say
• Overheated house at central Tooting
• Headed for the fence
• Adjective for August
• ___ chocolate
• Stolen, in slang
• ___ to trot
• Like Death Valley in summer
• High on the Scoville scale
• Having many fans ... or needing a fan?
• Soaring up the charts
• Kind of pursuit or dog
• Like Dragon's Breath peppers
• Destined for the chop shop
• Like a house with central heating
• How some like it, musically
• Extremely lucky
• Word before plate or potato
• Like a thief's loot, slangily
• Very much in style
• Going viral, say
• Like August, typically
• Attractive
• Like jalapenos
• Like chili peppers
• Dryer setting
• Like Aug. 10th
• Like the summer sun
• How some like it?
• Ill-gotten, informally
• Just taken from the oven
• Like the desert
• Like a freshly used stove
• Steamy piece of photography?
• Flying off the shelves, so to speak
• ___ under the collar
• Faucet label
• Like August 11th, usually
• Very good house for the titular head
• Like gochujang paste
• In high demand
• Like the weather in Florida, often
• One may reveal a secret
• With 35-Down, precarious place
• Letting off steam, say
• With 60-Across, East Asian cuisine style
• Like Hunan cuisine
• Adjective after "red" or "white"
• On fire
• Very good at baking?
• Word with tip or tub
• On one's heels, apt to burn?
• Expert piping?
• Like Miami summers
• How some like it, weather-wise
• Very keen on the spicy
• Blistering on one's heels, perhaps?
• Like some towels and topics
• Like ghost peppers
• What "C" faucets are in Italy, confusingly
• Like the Carolina Reaper pepper
• Like habanero peppers
• "___ Blood"
• Megan Thee Stallion's "___ Girl Summer"
• Like Carolina Reaper peppers
• Over 100, say
• "___ Ones" (show where celebrities eat spicy wings)
• With 72-Across, post-sledding mugful
• Like Hunan chicken
• Steamy bit of photography?
• Like a 93-degree day
• Like a pan right out of the oven
• "___ enough for ya?"
• Rhyme before "spot" or "shot"
• Like phall curry
• Not chilly, like chili
• Like you'd expect summer to be
• Scorching outside
• Spicy bit of photography?
• Like Australia in January
• Like sparks and fire
• Between 90 and 100, say
• Like Naga Viper peppers
• Salsa option
• ___ STUFF (candy heart message)
• Selling quickly
• Like supernovas
• Like cayenne
• Like Scotch bonnet peppers
• Like lit barbecue coals
• Word with tip or take
• Super-trendy
• Like some 38-Across
• Overheated house at the end of the street
• Mild alternative
• Really peeved
• "___ to Go!," 2024 Chappell Roan hit sometimes compared to the Village People's "Y.M.C.A."
• Absolute train wrecks