Referring Clues

• Not occupied
• Like some hands
• Not in use
• Lounge
• Nothing doing?
• Out of action
• Not going anywhere
• Wait at the light
• Off the job
• Groundless
• In neutral
• Not working
• Mothballed
• Kind of talk
• Loafing
• Not busy
• Run at the curb
• At rest
• Thumb-twiddling
• Goofing off
• Like some fears
• Not engaged
• Run without moving
• Just lying around
• Like some chatter
• Like some threats
• Like some rumors
• Like the Maytag repairman, in commercials
• Unused
• Barely run, as an engine
• Empty
• Waiting
• Leave in neutral
• Run while standing
• Kind of hands that are "the devil's playthings"
• Off
• Not playing
• Inactive
• Sitting on one's hands
• Between assignments
• Mark time
• Knock about
• Not scheduled to play
• Unfounded, as gossip
• Just twiddling the thumbs
• Taking a break from work
• Just twiddling one's thumbs
• Having time on one's hands
• Just sitting there
• Unmeaningful
• Doing nothing
• Frequent Cleese co-star
• Daydreaming, perhaps
• Just chilling
• Like some thoughts
• Indolent
• Shelved
• Asleep, say
• Twiddling one's thumbs
• Daydreaming, say
• Furloughed
• Between jobs
• Lay off
• Run in place
• Kind of speculation
• Still
• Trifling
• Frivolous
• Unemployed
• Going nowhere
• Not scheduled to compete
• Not doing anything
• No longer working
• Fallow
• On one's duff
• Just loafing
• Dillydally
• Monty Python's Eric
• Wait for the green light
• Not lifting a finger
• Wait for the light
• Actor Eric of "Monty Python"
• Lying around
• Like one who's taking five
• Hanging around
• Not active
• At liberty
• Run while disengaged
• "Monty Python" trouper
• Eric of Monty Python fame
• Eric of Monty Python
• Not in production
• Resting
• Marking time
• Emulate a couch potato
• Lazy
• Like a couch potato
• Kicked back
• On strike
• Comedic actor Eric
• At leisure
• Slothful
• Gathering dust
• On break, say
• Word before gossip or chatter
• Vegging out
• Comedian Eric
• Just twiddling one's thumbs
• Off-line, perhaps
• Up to nothing
• Far from busy
• Run in neutral
• Baseless
• Between tasks
• Monty Python member Eric
• Run in a traffic jam?
• Trivial, as chatter
• Run at a red light?
• What a getaway car may be waiting in
• Out of work
• Not in operation
• Meaningless
• Not being used
• Nothing-doing?
• Eric who wrote the book for "Spamalot"
• "Tears, ___ tears, I know not what they mean": Tennyson
• On one's keister
• Hanging, so to speak
• Wait in neutral
• Like a flâneur
• Run while stopped
• "___ hands are the devil's tools"
• Pal of Palin
• Potentially going into screen saver mode
• Dormant
• Just sitting around
• Hanging out, say
• Loaf at work
• Wait for the light to change
• Not in gear
• Sit at a red light
• Run out of gear
• Insignificant, as gossip
• Like inconsequential talk
• Neutral state?
• Monty Python troupe member
• Gathering dust, so to speak
• Do nothing
• Onetime cohort of Cleese, Palin et al.
• Loitering, e.g.
• "Spamalot" creator Eric
• Just hanging out
• Veg out
• Not in action
• Lazing
• Lazing about
• Monty Python member
• Not playing today
• Not moving
• Off from work
• Taking it easy
• Having no basis
• Just sitting
• "At liberty," to performers
• Unoccupied
• Lounging
• In mothballs
• Kicking back
• Nonworking
• Unengaged
• Dilly-dallying
• Not up to anything
• Between gigs
• On the couch
• Type of curiosity
• Stay in neutral
• Doing plenty of nothing
• Be in neutral
• Doing zip
• Run, but go nowhere
• Not up to much
• Wait curbside, e.g.
• Run in neutral, perhaps
• Keep the car warm
• Out of work, e.g.
• Between engagements
• With time to kill
• Stagnate
• Python named Eric
• Causing a screen saver to start
• Be a layabout
• Wait for green
• Cleese cohort
• Unoccupied?
• Like hands the devil uses
• Gathering dust, e.g.
• Type of chatter
• Killing time
• Without work
• Sit in traffic
• Harmless, as threats
• Kind of chatter
• Wait curbside
• Unfounded, as rumors
• Keep the engine running
• Stagnating
• Wait for the green
• Wait while running?
• At a standstill
• On break
• Cause a screen saver to start
• Fritter away time
• Shiftless
• Just hanging, so to speak
• Run a car in neutral
• Not doing much of anything
• Like some gossip or hands
• Just hanging around
• Groundless, as rumors
• Pink-slip
• Like many rumors
• Like doodling
• Like hands co-opted by the Devil?
• Leave the engine running
• Wait for the start of the drag race
• Between chores
• "Spamalot" lyricist Eric
• Keep the engine running in park
• While away
• Lounging about
• Kill time
• Just twiddling one’s thumbs
• Not productive
• "At liberty," to performers
• Enjoying some downtime
• Pointless
• Sit at a traffic light, perhaps
• Sit at a stoplight
• Sitting by
• Wait for the start of a drag race
• Word before "gossip" or "chatter"
• Shut down
• Disengaged
• Sitting it out
• Sitting around
• Not at work
• Save the V-8 juice?
• Stagnant
• Loaf
• Sans employment
• Busy loafing
• Member of Cleese and Chapman's cohort
• Without purpose
• Type of curiosity or speculation
• All the unemployed and some of the rich
• Enjoying some time off
• Word with "gossip" or "chatter"
• Loitering
• Like a loafer
• 'Spamalot' creator Eric
• 'Spamalot' creator
• Cleese co-star
• Comic Eric
• Cleese companion
• 'Spamalot' mastermind
• Enjoying the hammock
• What 27-Down isn't
• Enjoy the hammock
• Just standing around
• Napping
• Relaxing
• With 110-Down, they're said to be 'the devil's workshop'
• Run in park
• Run at the light
• Waiting for an assignment
• Wait for a light, perhaps
• Warming the bench, maybe
• Empty, as talk
• Sit at a light
• Nonproductive
• Park with the engine running
• Laid off
• Doing squat
• Barely run the engine
• Not employed
• On hiatus
• Ticks over
• Stay neutral?
• Like chitchat
• Have the car running in place
• Not currently occupied
• Between positions
• Like a bump on a log
• Not going
• Wait on a red light
• Groundless, as speculation
• Like a layabout
• This isn't working?
• Motionless
• Insignificant, as chatter
• Run while standing still
• Useless
• Sit in traffic, say
• Kind of threat
• "Spamalot" co-creator
• In a hammock, maybe
• Baseless, as a threat
• Not even part-time
• Not doing much
• Monty Python performer
• Between activities
• Eric of "Spamalot"
• Not doing much right now
• Away from a chat program, say
• Not in drive or reverse
• Out of a job
• Senseless
• Purposeless
• Lounging around
• In couch-potato mode
• On a break
• Lackadaisical
• Internet chat status
• Stationary
• Onetime Palin collaborator
• Kind of curiosity
• Wait to drag race
• Lollygag
• ___ talk
• Sit in neutral
• Having a day off
• "Spamalot" lyricist
• Be inactive
• On a break, say
• Loitering, say
• Unproductive
• Run at a red light
• Not busy at all
• Having nothing to do
• Not working today
• Without foundation
• Sit at a four-way stop, say
• Just chillin'
• Empty, as threats
• On the sidelines
• Like some chatter or threats
• "Spamalot" co-creator Eric
• While (away)
• Keep the car running
• Kind of chat
• Wasting time
• Waste of time
• Hollow, as a threat
• Take it easy
• Malinger
• "___ hands are the devil's playthings"
• Just sitting, say
• Eric of "Monty Python"
• Sitting around doing nothing
• Hardly working
• Needing something to do
• Run a car without moving
• Not on the schedule
• Not even slightly busy
• Taking a break
• Currently doing nothing
• Keep the car warm in the driveway
• Jobless
• Loafing around
• Thing to do at a red light
• Just loafing around
• Out of service
• Not at all serious, as threats
• Disengaged at the moment
• Not otherwise engaged
• Sluggish
• Immobile
• Between films
• Futile
• Just hanging around doing nothing
• Sitting still at a traffic light
• Be between drive and reverse
• Not move with the car running
• Wait at a red light
• Put in neutral
• Run in neither drive or reverse
• Run the car without moving
• Run a vehicle without moving
• Run an engine without moving
• "Monty Python" regular
• Aimless
• Doing nothing at the moment
• Put it in neutral
• Sit at the light
• Keep the motor humming
• Running at a red light
• Like computers with screen savers running
• Eric featured in "Monty Python's Personal Best"
• Some get paid less for not working
• Sitting on your butt
• Run at a light
• Running in neutral
• Run a moped without moving
• Like some hands or rumors
• Not moving or working
• Having an off day
• Without any occupation
• Not be in drive or reverse
• Lazy (4)
• What a car does at a red light
• See 41-Down
• With time for thumb-twiddling
• Monty Python alum Eric
• Currently not doing anything
• Avoiding work
• Like a slacker between albums
• Monty Python member and composer Eric
• What a successful rocker can be?
• Inactive Tool song?
• Oasis "The Importance of Being ___"
• What Oasis stressed "The Importance of Being"
• Like hands, when not rocking
• Like band between albums, perhaps
• Like some rock star threats
• Like unused studio
• Python stands up during panel discussion
• Jobless indulged from time to time
• Unemployed paid less at the centre
• Tick over
• Unemployed, one gets led astray
• I would like tips for doing nothing
• Being lazy, I got led astray
• I can dispense with the candle: it's useless
• Run on the spot!
• Lied misleadingly about the rich, it's sometimes said
• Being jobless, one gets led astray
• Reluctant to work - Pythonesque Eric
• Doing nothing - taking some unpaid leave
• I had left foot hidden in bed?
• Superstar said to be useless
• Still I should take unemployment benefit, nothing less
• Paid less - lacking pass, not working
• Doing nothing to disturb "12"
• Busy doing nothing
• Vain creep needing no introduction
• Pointless role model, allegedly
• Unemployed member of comedy team
• Doing little skid, lessen grips
• Wait for a green light
• Good-for-nothing
• Sovereign tucked into fish in lounge
• Not engaged, say
• Lazy - vain
• Running, or not?
• Like loafers
• Lazy and backward in fielding
• Do very little
• Lazy - unemployed
• Tick over - no good?
• Work-shy
• Object of worship said to be immobile
• Unused to Eric, perhaps
• Ridley's no use
• Some are paid less for not working
• Ladies out to lunch might be represented as this
• Lacking pass, paid less while not working
• Out of work, one gets led astray
• Vain and averse to work
• False god not heard to be working
• Superstar said to be out of work
• Leisure for love found by Puck
• Turn over at leisure
• JFK once lied?
• Not operating
• Wait for a green light, say
• Gather dust
• Wait curbside, often
• Like some hands or threats
• In screen saver mode, say
• See 117 Across
• ___ chatter
• Twiddle one's thumbs
• Not very active
• Far from frantic
• Monty Python member and funny song guy Eric
• Empty, as a threat
• Empty (threat)
• Lied about being out of work
• Slack return in fielding
• Indulged, oddly, so do nothing
• Regularly find clues not working
• Lazy and lied badly
• Lied about being workshy
• Exotic deli proved to be useless
• Unoccupied part of horrid Leeds
• Not in action or at work
• Not working, one on dole lacking nothing!
• Disliking work, I must get led astray
• Find clue with odd parts missing? That's useless
• Vain hero in hearing
• No use doing nothing
• Doing nothing gives an image to the audience
• Paid less? Keeps doing nothing here
• Sit with the engine in neutral
• Slothful extremes of island life
• Having some downtime
• Lied about being unemployed
• Not doing too much
• Butt-on-couch
• Doing zilch
• Waiting at a light
• Practicing sloth
• Awaiting an assignment
• Running motionless
• Groundless, as a threat
• Tarry
• Out of work, for now
• Sit at a red light, say
• See 27 Across
• Not busy at the moment
• Being workshy, lied cunningly
• Like lame threats
• Loiter
• Pass the time
• Not in active use
• Remain in neutral
• Lied about doing nothing
• Trivial, as talk
• Out of work, I had a certain amount of dole
• Like some gossip or rumors
• Kick back
• Not at it
• Between actions
• Having nothing to do, one gets led astray
• Wait, as a driver at the light
• Insignificant
• Spin the wheels
• Baseless, as rumors
• Awaiting a task
• Waste gas
• Like much chitchat
• Sitting
• Kind of curiosity or chatter
• Like some talk
• Lied shiftily about being slack?
• Run, but not move
• Not functioning
• Wait to go at the light
• Word from Old English for "useless"
• Having the day off
• Wait in traffic
• Like some speculation
• Wait at the light, engine on
• Wait at a stop sign, say
• Unbusy
• Laze about
• Sit in park, say
• On the disabled list, say
• Lay off, as workers
• Kind of hands said to be the devil's playthings
• Hardly industrious
• Wait on red
• "___ hands are the devil's workshop"
• Waiting for the next task, say
• Like much chatter
• "The devil finds work for ___ hands"
• Wait at a light, perhaps
• Laze
• Run, but not in drive or reverse
• Such fellows may merely figure to lie around
• "___ Hands"
• Awaiting orders, say
• Twiddling one’s thumbs
• "Am I vital / If my heart is ___?" (Moses Sumney)
• With nothing to do
• Insubstantial
• Twiddling one's thumbs with nothing to do
• Hang around
• Currently twiddling one's thumbs
• Mindless, like chatter
• Not working, but soon to
• Lied in a way that's simply useless
• Not scheduled to play, as a pro team
• Sideline
• Word before rich or talk
• Though lazy, I'd almost gone ahead
• I get dole, losing nothing by not working
• Not yet engaged?
• Duty-free?
• Not working at the moment
• Like a team on a day off
• Keep an engine running without moving
• Not utilized
• Like frivolous chatter
• Wait at a light, say
• Sit with the engine running
• ___ No More
• Waiting for an assignment, maybe
• Not do anything
• Wait for the light to change, say
• Torpid
• ___ threat
• Run without moving, as a truck
• Just waiting around
• Being out of money, die horribly in vain
• Still in a sports car
• See 12-Across
• Not currently active
• Run without moving, as a car
• Nothing doing?
• Comic Eric ___
• Go nowhere with the engine on
• See 62-Across
• Have the engine on while parked
• Waste time
• Like a car waiting curbside
• Just laying around
• Not scheduled to play today
• Not scheduled to work today
• On a bye week
• Do squat
• Taking it real easy
• Be in neutral in your go-cart
• Not hard at work
• Having an off day?
• What an orange dot might indicate in a chat
• Run a bus in neutral
• Collecting dust
• Chilling, maybe
• Unmoving
• Unmoving, perhaps
• Running, but not moving
• Sitting on the bench, say
• Running in place
• Like a computer with a running screensaver
• Not serious
• Be just chillin'