Hot meal for this circus artiste? (4-5)
I believe the answer is:
fire-eater
But I can't explain it at all!
(Other definitions for fire-eater that I've seen before include "A hot-headed performer?" , "One partaking of something very hot!" , "Entertainer on a diet of flames?" , "One whose lunch is very hot!" , "A belligerent flame-swallower?" .)