Crossword puzzle clue "without certainly"

Without ___ (certainly)

Answer to the riddle "What has rivers without water, forests without trees, and cities without houses?"

Doubleday who almost certainly didn't invent baseball

''Certainly''

Anaconda loser, almost certainly

They're certainly not dead to rights: Abbr.

Proverb containing wisdom almost certainly contradicted by some other proverb

Certainly not nigh