| Clue | Length | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| messing around | 8 letters | trifling |
| ||
| messing around | 9 letters | puttering |
| messing around | 9 letters | tinkering |
| messing around | 10 letters | smattering |
| ||
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- Dawdling
- Ineffectively working
- Working slowly
- Coquetry
- dabbling
- Dalliance
- dallying
- fiddling
- Flirtation
- Fooling
- Fooling around
- Idling
- jerking off
- Kidding around
- Loitering
- messing around
- monkeying
- monkeying around
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- Playing
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- toying
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- Handful
- Modest amount
- Soupcon
- Small amount
- Carol collects stuff for a bit
- Little son carrying weight
- a little secret initially significant
- warble about subject a bit
- A little son being important
- sciolism
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- Shallowness
- little learning
- amateurism
- Cast
- Coquetry
- dabbling
- Dalliance
- dallying
- Dash
- dilettantism
- dilettantship
- Few
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- half learning
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- smattering of ignorance
- smattering of knowledge
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- surface scratching
- Suspicion
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- Thought
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- Fatuity
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- Pretended
- Formal
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- Silly
- Worthless
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- Windy?
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- Asinine
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- captious
- catchpenny
- caviling
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- equivocatory
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- fribbling
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- Goofing off
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- Inane
- Incidental
- Inconsiderable
- Insipid
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- Kidding around
- lazing
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- Lingering
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- Loitering
- Lolling
- Lounging
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- Meager
- Measly
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- monkeying
- monkeying around
- mopery
- Neat
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- Nit-picking
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- nugacious
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- Otiose
- Packed
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- Picayune
- Picayunish
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- Playing
- Playing Around?
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- puny
- pussyfooting
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- Quibbling
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- Shipshape
- Short
- shuffling
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