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Something Hot The Opposite When Picked Up Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is CHILI which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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We think the answer to this crossword clue is: CHILI

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99%5Exact Match!
noun

• ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans

• very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency

39%6Picked at, picked at, picked at
noun

• an excited state of agitation

• an angry disturbance

• a quarrel about petty points

• a rapid active commotion

verb

• worry unnecessarily or excessively

• care for like a mother

31%4Something picked when forgotten
noun

• a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed

• a strand or cluster of hair

• a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun

• enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it

• a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key

• any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured

verb

• fasten with a lock

• keep engaged

• become rigid or immoveable

• hold in a locking position

• become engaged or intermeshed with one another

• hold fast (in a certain state)

• place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape

• pass by means through a lock in a waterway

• build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels

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The Guardian Cryptic20 Jan 2021 Across 11
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