Related Clues:

• Suppositions, may be accompanied by buts
• Makes hot or warm
• If . . . and ands were pots and pans
• A freckle on the face of our star?
• They're not the final plural of 12 across
• They eliminate in such a warming way
• Preliminary races
• Preliminary matches
• "Ands" or "buts" alternatives
• They might happen
• Hypothetical cases
• Pals of ands and buts
• Brummie literary genre about uncertainties
• Warms up for the opening races
• Microwaves, say