Related Clues:
- Eliminating rounds of a race
- Former lover refers to thrills
- Warms up in the oven
- Warms up for the preliminary races
- Race prelims
- Former lover refers to tickles
- Touches off
- Adds thermal energy to
- Adds fuel to, as a fire
- Begins to get exciting, with 'up'
- Gives fuel to
- Fuels, as a fire
- Works up references in support of unopened congress
- Warms up, as dinner
- Intensifies, with "up"