nonsolution
goat rope
half-measure
pseudosolution
non-starter
sticking plaster
escape fire
approximation
rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic
plan B
the cure is worse than the disease
puzzle
puzzler
mystifier
teaser
remedilessness
bandage
nostrum
wing and prayer
solutionlessness
fail
futile
cut the Gordian knot
plan C
call
impracticality
Tower of Babel
uneffective
misappreciation
nonfailure
ideal mixture
fudge
no-win situation
offcast
waymaking
passable
unsuitable
dead duck
holding pattern
insoluble
chase a rainbow
unsolvable
irremediably
blind alley
deproblematize
mug's game
pipe dream
unfulfillably
heuristic
counterstrategy
nonrevision
worst of both worlds
unresolvably
hackaround
necessary evil
in a pinch
at a pinch
fiddle
nonconsequence
misendow
inexpedient
negative
third way
solution in search of a problem
waterproof
limp
nontheory
ideal solution
backtracking
yak shaving
dry hole
blivit
silver bullet
so-so
contraproductive
that dog won't hunt
utopian
only
tolerably
close enough for government work
negatum
cobra effect
acceptably
live with
inaccuracy
fool's errand
negand
unstomachable
Heath Robinson
butchery
pie in the sky
unsolvably
flake
weed
fault
zombie theory
schemelessness