The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word REEL which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 2010.
Be unsteady crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| REEL | 33 % | 4 |
| TOTTER | 33 % | 6 |
| TEETER | 25 % | 6 |
| WAVER | 8 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Be unsteady
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- waver
- fluctuate
- jerky
- reel
- shaky
- teeter
- totter
- totterer
- tottery
- wobbly
- astatic
- doddering
Crossword Answer definitions
REEL noun- A shaky or unsteady gait.
- A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
- A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
- A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, —-- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.
- A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
- A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
- To wind on a reel.
- To spin or revolve repeatedly.
- To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
- To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
- (with back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.
- To make or cause to reel.
- To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
- To be in shock.
- To roll.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result REEL
- Feel dizzy
- Irish dance
- React to a haymaker
- Spin
- Fail a sobriety test, perhaps
- Rod's companion
- Spin about
- Angler's gear
- Hose holder
- Rod attachment
More clues leading to the result TOTTER
- Wobble
- Lose stability
- Seem about to fall
- Threaten to fall
- Perch precariously
- Walk feebly
- Walk unsteadily
- Act besotted
- Reel
- Walk shakily
More clues leading to the result TEETER
- Half a playground unit?
- Waver on the brink
- Sway unsteadily
- Have trouble balancing
- Wobble
- Look a bit unstable
- Seesaw
- Rock
- Falter on your feet
- Half of a seesaw?