3D Its use may lead to heated words (11,3)
S?M?A?H?T?? ?N?
We thought SYMPATHETIC EAR but the N is from STAGNATED in 26A.
And why SYMPATHETIC EAR anyway?
Brilliant! Thanks a lot. We're both old, well-educated, perfect English, but have never heard of it. We used to use the Oxford Dictionary website for crossword clues until they started charging. We wonder whether it would have found it. http://anagram-solver.net has it but http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/solveit.html doesn't.