Related Clues:
- It's a matter of degrees
- Fireplace output
- Early stage of a tourney
- Guns, figuratively
- Summer phenomenon, and word that can precede the first words of 17-, 28-, 44- and 58-Across
- Fastball, in sports slang
- It's before the main event, briefly
- Topic in the tropics
- Early race or round
- Heat, for short
- A gun, slangily
- Sun's output
- Race division
- Radiator offering
- Peppery intensity