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Time to get up and make provisional arrangements (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

temporise

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'and make provisional arrangements' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'time to get up' is the wordplay.
'time' becomes 'tempo' (tempo is a kind of time).
'to get up' becomes 'rise' ('rise' can be a synonym of 'get up').
'tempo'+'rise'='TEMPORISE'

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(Other definitions for temporise that I've seen before include "Emptier so as to avoid giving a definite answer" , "Put off" , "fail to decide" , "Delay" , "Hedge" .)

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