Clues for the word "IDLE"
We've had 640 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 2520 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on July 22, 2026.
Definition of idle
- superl. - Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren.
- superl. - Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate use; unemployed; as, idle hours.
- superl. - Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing; as, idle workmen.
- superl. - Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow.
- superl. - Light-headed; foolish.
- v. i. - To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business.
- v. t. - To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day.
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 ones 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'
- Lying about
- Wait for a passenger, perhaps
- Just chillaxing
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - July 22, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - July 17, 2026
- Mirror Daily - July 17, 2026
- Your Life Choices - July 14, 2026
- Mirror Daily - July 12, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - July 09, 2026
- New York Times - July 07, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - July 07, 2026
- Mirror Daily - July 05, 2026
- New York Times - July 02, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 30, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 26, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - June 25, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 16, 2026
- New York Times - June 15, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 14, 2026
- LA Times - June 14, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 12, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 10, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 08, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 02, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - June 01, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - May 29, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 29, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - May 19, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 19, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 18, 2026
- Daily American - May 17, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 14, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 25, 2026
- And in 2490 more crossword puzzles...