| Clue | Length | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| cautious; provisional | 9 letters | tentative |
| ||
Likely related crossword puzzle clues
- Provisional
- Not final
- Full of hedges
- Penciled in
- Hesitant
- Uncertain
- cautious; provisional
- Provisional; hesitant
- Not definite or final
- unusually attentive but hesitant
- Cautious, hesitant
- Experimental
- Hesitant, diffident
- Diffident
- terribly attentive but hesitant
- empirical
- Figure drip in gallery is experimental
- Hesitant, cautious
- Wobbly
- Willing
- Whack
- Not fully worked out
- Acting
- Ad hoc
- ad interim
- Alternate
- Alternative
- ambling
- Analytic
- Apprehensive
- Awkward
- Backup
- Band aid
- blankminded
- Callow
- Canny
- "Careful!"
- Cautious
- Circumspect
- Claudicant
- Counterfeit
- Crawling
- creeping
- creeping like snail
- cut and try
- Dangerous
- Deliberate
- demurring
- Desultory
- Determined
- Discreet
- Disinclined
- Dumb
- Dummy
- Easy ......
- Empty
- Empty-headed
- Equivalent
- Ersatz
- examinational
- examinatorial
- examining
- explorational
- explorative
- exploratory
- Fact-finding
- Fake
- Faltering
- Feeling
- flagging
- foot dragging
- Gauche
- Gentle
- gingerly
- Gradual
- Green?
- groping
- Guarded
- Halting
- Hazardous
- Heedful
- Hesitating
- heuristic
- Hit or miss
- Hobbled
- Hobbling
- Idle
- Ignorant
- Imitation
- improvisational
- Improvised
- Inane
- indagative
- Indecisive
- Indolent
- Inexperienced
- Infirm
- Innocent
- Insecure
- inspectional
- inspectorial
- Insubstantial
- interim
- investigational
- investigative
- investigatory
- Irresolute
- jibbing
- Judicious
- Jury-rigged
- Know-nothing
- Languid
- languorous
- Lazy ......
- leaving out nothing
- Leisurely
- Limping
- lumbering
- Makeshift
- makeshifty
- Mindful
- Mock
- Moderate
- Naive
- Nescient
- Noncommittal
- On guard
- overlooking no possibility
- pawky
- Perilous
- Phony
- Pilot
- Pinch
- Poking
- Poky
- ...... politic
- Precarious
- probationary
- probative
- probatory
- proving
- provisory
- Proxy
- Prudent
- Raw
- Regardful
- Relaxed
- Reluctant
- Reserve
- Resolute
- Risky
- Safe
- Sauntering
- scrupling
- Secondary
- Shaky
- Shifting
- Shifty
- Shilly-shallying
- shuffling
- Shy
- Simple
- Slack
- Slippery
- Slothful
- Slow
- slow as death
- Slow as molasses
- slow as slow
- Slow to act
- slow crawling
- slow foot
- slow going
- slow legged
- Slow-moving
- slow paced
- slow poky
- Slow running
- slow sailing
- slow stepped
- Sluggish
- Snail-paced
- Snaillike
- Spare
- Speculative
- Staggering
- sticking
- stickling
- Stopgap
- straining
- strange [to]
- Strolling
- Substitute
- Temporary
- Test
- Testing
- Thorough
- Ticklish
- Timid
- toddling
- Token
- Tortoiselike
- tottering
- Treacherous
- Trial
- trial-and-error
- trudging
- Trying
- turtlelike
- unacquainted
- Unadventurous
- unapprized
- Uncommunicative
- uncomprehending
- unconversant
- undaring
- Undependable
- Uneasy
- Unenlightened
- Unenterprising
- unfaithworthy
- Unfamiliar
- Unhurried
- Unilluminated
- Uninformed
- uninitiated
- Unintelligent
- Unknowing
- unposted
- unprecipitate
- Unreliable
- Unsound
- Unstable
- unsteadfast
- Unsteady
- Unsubstantial
- Unsure
- Untrustworthy
- Unversed?
- Utility
- vacillatory
- Vacuous
- Venturesome
- verificatory
- vicarious
- waddling
- Zetetic
- Not 100% final