The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word DITHERY
I've seen this crossword clue in Independent
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More clues leading to the result DITHERY
- Italian understood male in unsympathetic Havering
- Uncertain ID turned up on the railway
- Unable to think clearly, that chap in Dirty Dancing
- Tentative article replaced by another in journal
- Indecisive replacing article in journal with another
- Unsure when the reading, writing or arithmetic will come into homework?
- The King gets into flat-pack furniture, perhaps, with nervous excitement
- If uncertain don’t get a tradesman to include the initial repair
- Confused article in leading daily, one on railway
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The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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