Answer:

heats

Answer	Crossword Clue
HEATS	Track and field events
HEATS	Warms up
HEATS	Inflames

HEATS	Preliminary races
HEATS	Qualifiers
HEATS	Trials on tracks
HEATS	Qualifying races
HEATS	Track trials
HEATS	Warms
HEATS	Microwaves, as leftovers
HEATS	Prelims

HEATS	Meet prelims
HEATS	Track events
HEATS	Nukes, so to speak
HEATS	Meet preliminaries
HEATS	Track races
HEATS	Takes the chill off
HEATS	Makes warmer
HEATS	Some elimination rounds

HEATS	Track prelims
HEATS	Warms, as food
HEATS	Intensifies, with "up"
HEATS	Time trials
HEATS	Puts in the oven
HEATS	Divisions of a contest.
HEATS	Preliminary races.
HEATS	Warms.

HEATS	Divisions of a race.
HEATS	Preliminary rounds of races.
HEATS	Track meet preliminaries.
HEATS	Parts of a race.
HEATS	Track term.
HEATS	Preliminary events.
HEATS	Track events.
HEATS	Track meet events.

HEATS	Trial runs
HEATS	Preliminaries at a track meet
HEATS	Preliminary events
HEATS	Excites
HEATS	Certain competitions