Answer: IDLES
IDLES is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 96 times.
Referring Clues:
- Runs in neutral
- Runs while sitting
- Runs with no effect
- Twiddles one's thumbs
- Benches
- Lollygags
- Dogs it
- Runs with minimal power
- Runs without moving
- Isn't going anywhere
- Does nothing
- Puts out of work
- Runs for no purpose
- Lays off
- Just sits around
- Putters
- Kills time
- Runs while standing
- Hangs around
- Runs while standing still
- Stays in neutral
- Sits at a stoplight
- Lallygags
- Dawdles
- Doesn't do a thing
- Runs out of gear?
- Leaves running
- Doesn't work
- Just hangs around
- Just sits there
- Loafs
- Sits in neutral
- Wastes time
- Runs in place?
- Waits at the light
- Gets in a jam, maybe
- Sits in traffic
- Sits
- Keeps the engine running
- What a slacker does
- Loafs around
- Lets the engine run
- Sits at a light, say
- Engine levels
- Goofs off
- Gets zero mpg
- Goes nowhere
- Sits around
- Runs in place
- Lies around
- Keeps from working
- Vegetates
- "Pronto!"
- Fritters away time
- Runs, but remains stopped
- Sits in park, say
- Doesn't do anything
- Goldbricks
- Isn't busy
- Waits unmoving in traffic
- Waits at a light, say
- What a goldbrick does
- Remains inactive
- Loiters
- Relaxes
- Waits in traffic
- Wastes gas, say
- Keeps running at a red light
- Just sits
- Remains in neutral
- Doesn't do much
- Gets nowhere
- Puts a dent in one's gas mileage
- Takes it easy
- Waits for a green light, say
- Lazes around
- Wastes gas, maybe
- Doesn't go anywhere
- Goofs around
- Waits at the drive-thru
- Goes nowhere, say
- Spends time doing nothing
- Doesn't work at all
- Keeps the engine running, without moving
- Remains neutral?
- Sits and waits
- Is in neutral
- Sits with the engine running
- Just ... sits around
- Does a whole lot of nothing
- Keeps the engine running, say
- Gets zero m.p.g., say
- Sits on one's hands
- Leaves the motor running
- Slacks off
- Whiles away the hours
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 31, 2025
- New York Times - July 25, 2025
- USA Today - June 30, 2025
- LA Times - June 16, 2025
- USA Today - April 22, 2025
- New York Times - April 02, 2025
- New York Times - March 10, 2025
- LA Times - January 05, 2025
- New York Times - November 18, 2024
- New York Times - August 18, 2024
- USA Today - April 08, 2024
- LA Times - January 09, 2024
- New York Times - November 22, 2023
- USA Today - June 08, 2023
- LA Times - March 26, 2023
- New York Times - February 08, 2023
- LA Times - September 03, 2022
- LA Times - August 27, 2022
- USA Today - August 03, 2022
- New York Times - February 21, 2022
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