Clues for the word "IDLER"
We've had 116 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 333 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on March 28, 2026.
Definition of idler
- n. - One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.
- n. - One who has constant day duties on board ship, and keeps no regular watch.
- n. - An idle wheel or pulley. See under Idle.
Referring Clues
- Goldbrick
- Lazybones
- Time waster
- Goof-off
- Clock watcher
- Do-nothing
- Loafer
- Slugabed
- Layabout
- Slacker
- Shiftless sort
- Shiftless type
- Couch potato
- Lazy one
- Hardly a workaholic
- Ne'er-do-well
- Couch potato, e.g.
- Slouch
- Work shirker
- Lazy type
- Laggard
- Car in a jam, say
- Thumb twiddler
- He doesn't do much
- Thumb-twiddler
- Good-for-nothing
- Time-waster
- One just sitting around
- Ambitionless one
- One with time to spare
- Dynamo's antithesis
- Less active
- The grasshopper in "The Ant and the Grasshopper," e.g.
- Lazy person
- One who is hardly a workaholic
- Lazy sort
- Lazy fellow
- Hammock occupant
- Sluggard
- One loafing
- Loiterer
- Fabled grasshopper, for one
- Car at a long light, say
- Lollygagger
- He doesn't do anything
- Gentleman of leisure?
- Slacking sort
- Aesop's grasshopper, for one
- Wastrel
- Hardly a doer
- Lazy bum
- Unproductive sort
- Indolent person
- Getaway car, during the robbery
- Couch patato
- One with nothing to do
- One taking up slack?
- One taking it easy
- One not seeking work
- Person doing nothing
- Aesop's lazy grasshopper, for one
- One just twiddling his thumbs
- Faineant
- Lotus-eater
- One in an airport taxi line, for the most part
- Dawdler
- Lazybones may be riled
- Dreamer
- Work-shy individual
- One who loafs about
- Sidle round to bag lounger
- Stepford wife takes her top off and reveals bum
- One riled by working?
- Every so often, find old queen for drone
- Workshy fellow, comparatively useless?
- I don't do much that is of not so much use
- One reluctant to work
- Riled (anag)
- Sloth offering some squirrel dinner, as sloth sleeps?
- One who does no work may be riled
- Drone
- Aesop's grasshopper, notably
- I would look to expend minimal energy
- For starters, I do love endlessly relaxing
- First of all, I do love endless relaxation!
- Work riled lazy fellow
- Soldier thus lost out to layabout
- I do little except relax in the first place
- Good-for-nothing violinist ignoring first and third parts
- Swimming riled lazybones
- I led revolt against right layabout
- One avoiding work, badly riled
- Layabout unusually riled
- Who's who on the French right that does nothing
- Apathetic sort, jockey dropping lead hurdling last in National
- Garfield, notably
- Lazier
- One with little to do
- Angry, I left in "backward and a shirker"
- Sleeper in a hammock, e.g.
- One doing nothing
- One loitering
- Unproductive one
- Thumb-twiddling sort
- Car waiting at the airport, maybe
- Loafing individual
- Less occupied with identity, Lear loses Cordelia, finally
- Unreasonably riled by a slacker
- Slothful sort
- Lounger
- One stuck in traffic, at times
- One just passing time
- Aesop's grasshopper, e.g.
- Less occupied
- One whiling away the time
- One unlikely to have long to-do lists
Last Seen In
- LA Times - March 28, 2026
- Daily American - March 02, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 12, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - January 08, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - January 04, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 22, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 19, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 26, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 13, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 20, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 26, 2025
- LA Times - March 23, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 17, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 13, 2025
- Daily American - February 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 07, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 01, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 11, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 17, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 29, 2024
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