Related Clues:
- Track meet events
- Becomes friendlier
- Warms up, as leftovers
- Intensifies, with ''up''
- Eliminating rounds in a contest
- Makes hot or warm
- They're not the final plural of 12 across
- They eliminate in such a warming way
- Preliminary races
- Preliminary matches
- Warms up for the opening races
- Microwaves, say
- Warming periods
- Puts on a burner, say
- Early races