Crossword-Solution: WARY 4 letters, 130 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Wary a. Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against
deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent;
circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
Wary a. Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.

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WARY anagram AWRY, WRAY, YRAW

We have 130 clues for the answer “WARY”

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Certainly not convinced 1 answer
Hard to take in 1 answer
Having one's eyes open 1 answer
Hesitant to join in 1 answer
Keeping the eyes and ears open 1 answer
Less than trustful 1 answer
Like our cat when her prey animal instincts are firing 1 answer
Like someone once bitten, twice shy 1 answer
Needing convincing, say 1 answer
Not easily taken 1 answer
Not foolhardy. 1 answer
Not readily believing 1 answer
Overly prudent. 1 answer
Suspicious and alert 1 answer
Suspiciously alert 1 answer
Watching one's step. 1 answer
With both eyes open 1 answer
With eyes and ears open 1 answer
Cautious (of) 2 answers
Not too sure 2 answers
Openly distrustful 2 answers
Untrusting 2 answers
Like a sentry 3 answers
On one's guard 3 answers
BE LEERY 3 answers
Quite cautious 3 answers
On ___ (alert) 3 answers
Suspicious (of) 4 answers
Gun-shy 5 answers
On the lookout 6 answers
Skeptical 6 answers
BE MINDFUL 7 answers
guardedly 7 answers
Leery 7 answers
On the alert 8 answers
BE VIGILANT 10 answers
A TUBA THAT COILS OVER THE SHOULDER OF THE MUSICIAN 10 answers
CAUTIOUS METHODOLOGY TO CONTAIN RIVER 10 answers
CAUTIOUS ONE 10 answers
CAUTIOUS SELDOM ___, THE 10 answers
ARM GUARD 10 answers
ALERT CARNIVOROUS MAMMAL WITH POINTED MUZZLE AND EARS AND A BUSHY TAIL 10 answers
CAUTIOUS, AS A REPLY 11 answers
BE on guard 11 answers
mistrustful 16 answers
Be cautious 17 answers
reactive 22 answers
Skittish 26 answers
gingerly 34 answers
heedful 35 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WARY (5)

But the wary Hiawatha Saw the figure ere it vanished, Saw the form of Pau-Puk-Keewis Glide into the soft blue shadow Of the pine-trees of the forest; Toward the squares of white beyond it, Toward an opening in the forest.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
The magistrate, after a wary observation of the darkness—into which, nevertheless, he could see but little further than he might into a mill-stone—retired from the window.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
However, civil unrest, marked by armed conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region between Muslim Azeris and Christian Armenians, makes foreign investors wary.
The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993
Roaring and shrieking the apes dashed toward Kulonga, but that wary savage was fleeing down the trail like a frightened antelope.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Close to the cabin the jungle commenced, and into it Tarzan of the Apes plunged, wary and noiseless—once more a savage beast hunting its food.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with WARY (3)

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector... and miss.
Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks." Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his face was cloudy. He was going in to one of his declines, and I grew wary. His brows came together; his mouth became a thin line. He was silent for a while. That is what I thought, too," he said at last, "when I was your age. If there is just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go ut of their way t…
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
Terry Pratchett Jingo
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 136 times in crossword archives (1956–2025).